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...doesn't seem to be the will on either side for an all-out confrontation. But as each side continues to blame the other for all manner of ills, smaller-scale skirmishes could well become a feature of daily life in Gaza. "The factional fighting is genuine," says Nicholas Pelham, the International Crisis Group's senior Middle East analyst. "It is still at a level where it can be contained but tensions are inflamed" - particularly in Khan Yunis - "to a point where I don' t know if the leaders are going to be able to contain...
...options could be on the table - including, perhaps, recognition in some roundabout form - if in return Israel would withdraw to the 1967 borders and close all settlements in the West Bank. "Hamas has made significant strides to evolve, which have so far not been internationally acknowledged," says Nicolas Pelham, senior analyst with the International Crisis Group. If the rockets don't stop, though, the borders will stay closed, and the Israelis will continue their artillery barrages. And as focused as Hamas must be on establishing international ties, it must also watch rival factions at home, particularly Fatah. Already Haniya...
...options could be on the table--including, perhaps, recognition in some roundabout form--if Israel in return would withdraw to the 1967 borders and close all settlements in the West Bank. "Hamas has made significant strides to evolve, which have so far not been internationally acknowledged," says Nicolas Pelham, senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group...
...three men disappeared on June 21, just one day after they had arrived in Mississippi. They had attended a week-long indoctrination course, sponsored by a civil rights coalition called the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Schwerner, son of a Pelham, N.Y. wigmaker and a graduate of Cornell, had been working for the Congress of Racial Equality in Meridian, Miss., since January, had volunteered to go up to Oxford to instruct Northern students in voter-registration techniques. Chancy, a slender young man from Meridian, had accompanied him. Goodman...
...been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet-and-leather Pelham bags are on every fashionista's shopping list. ?By Kristina Zimbalist...