Word: pullback
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...there was any gloating at The New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times over executive editor Jerry Ceppos' abject pullback from the San Jose Mercury News's series about the crack-contra link, there shouldn't have been. Gary Webb's stories were seriously flawed, but so were the stories those papers produced in an attempt to debunk him. All three, to a greater or lesser extent, committed the same journalistic sin for which they indicted the Mercury News: playing up evidence that Webb was wrong while burying proof to the contrary...
...week later, Palestinians were stung again when Netanyahu announced that Israel would fulfill its obligation to make another partial pullback from the West Bank but would vacate just 9% of the land still under occupation--of which only 2% was not already under shared Israeli-Palestinian authority. Israeli nationalists were up in arms again at the "giveaway," while Palestinians had expected to retrieve at least 20% or 30% of the West Bank. Arafat was so enraged that he rejected the handover and refused to take any calls from Netanyahu...
...were doing a pullback dribble. I passed the ball to [Grancio], and wanted to go out on a flare," said Hill, who led the Crimson with 14 points and five assists. "My defender started to jump by the screen, so I drove in, and Chris made a good pass. It was kind of an instinctive play...
...Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, which slaughtered card-holding members of four other political parties following Portugal's withdrawal from its former colony. Indonesia's invasion the following month sent most Fretilin leaders into exile. Ramos-Horta advocates Fretilin's peace plan: a two-year pullback of Indonesian troops and an eventual U.N.-sponsored referendum on self-rule. "We, the East Timorese, are offering an olive branch to Indonesia," Ramos-Horta told TIME last week, describing the process as a way for Indonesia to save face and regain respect. He says his share...
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Shimon Peres will decide within in a week whether to proceed with the withdrawal of troops from the West Bank town of Hebron. The pullback, which was supposed to have begun in March, was put on hold after suicide bombings that killed 63. Worried about recent warnings of terrorist attacks by groups opposed to the peace process with the Palestinians, Peres has said he might consider postponing the withdrawal. A might be the politically smart thing to do as elections approach, says Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer: "The pullout from Hebron is certainly going to entail...