Word: proof
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...were never tried in a court of law. Israel claims that all of the men deported were members of Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist Palestinian organization that opposes negotiation with Israel. However, Israel has offered absolutely no proof of these allegations. In addition, Israel never released a complete list of the deportees' names, nor did it inform their families. May of the deportees were in prison before their deportation, and several of their families do not know what has become of them...
More important, some of the reforms favored by Clinton aides threaten to undermine his promise to create jobs, since he aims to streamline America's most recession-proof industry: health care. Most of the 290,000 jobs created since the recession officially ended in March 1991 have sprung up in the health-care industry, which employs 9 million Americans. Since the election, Bristol-Myers has announced that it is cutting 2,000 of its 53,000 jobs, and Warner-Lambert expects to eliminate 2,700 of its 35,000 positions. Insurance companies, a principal target of Clinton's reform philosophy...
CRITICS GROUSE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE OF THE tried and true, but ultimately that's just what the audience wants. Proof: this holiday season's movie- attendance figures. The big disappointments were all thematically adventurous: Leap of Faith (Steve Martin as an evangelist), Hoffa (Jack Nicholson as a labor leader), Malcolm X (Denzel Washington as a civil rights activist) and Toys (Robin Williams as . . . whatever...
Hits: Aladdin (the only animated offering in the pack, grabbing $114 million), A Few Good Men (Tom Cruise=$55 million), The Bodyguard (Kevin Costner=$88 million, despite intense critical pummeling) and Home Alone 2, the failure-proof sequel that has rung up $146 million, already placing it in the top three of 1992's big earners, along with Batman Returns and Lethal Weapon 3 -- also sequels that offered more of the same...
...Israeli-Palestinian struggle lies in defusing Hamas' power. For this reason, a growing number of Israeli politicians, including a significant faction within Rabin's Cabinet, now advocate recognizing and speaking directly with the P.L.O. leadership. Beyond that, nationalists like Ghassan Khatib believe that Israel must offer Palestinians concrete proof that negotiations can pay off. "If there is progress in the peace talks, then the P.L.O. will be in a position to absorb Hamas," he says. "Otherwise it will be the other way around...