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Most of these faculty are former members of the Operations or Appiah committees, including Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences John E. Dowling '57, Associate Minister of Memorial Church Preston B. Hannibal and Rabbi Sally Finestone of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...haven't seen the full-page advertisements in the New York Times, you might know that Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, head of the almost evangelical Lubavich sect of Hasidism, is revered as the Messiah by thousands of his followers. In fact, more people may now believe the nonegenarian rabbi to be the Messiah than believed the same of Jesus of Nazareth at the time of his death...
...part in a massive plot to undermine the U.S. government. The catalog of charges, according to New York University law scholar Stephen Gillers, amounts to "the gravest allegations to come out of any American court in this century." Among the accusations: bombing the Trade Center, murdering the militant Zionist Rabbi Meir Kahane, plotting to kill Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, and scheming to blow up two major highway tunnels and other New York City landmarks...
...December 1991 one of Abouhalima's friends from the Afghan center, El Sayyid Nosair, was put on trial for the shooting death of Rabbi Kahane the previous year. In this case too, Abouhalima was briefly a suspect. Police believed he was the intended getaway driver but that Nosair jumped into the wrong taxi by mistake. In 1991 Nosair was acquitted of murder but convicted on assault and weapons-related charges. In August the sweeping conspiracy indictment linked Nosair to the trade-center plot as well...
...brake on Arafat's homecoming is the problem of securing his safety. Palestinian radicals have threatened to kill him, and a former chief rabbi of Israel has blessed his murder. P.L.O. sources in the territories say Arafat plans to move between two headquarters, one in Jericho and one in the Gaza Strip, a 70-mile trip by road through central Israel. The agreement guarantees safe passage, but for Arafat, "safe" would probably necessitate a military convoy. A Palestinian force that size would irritate the Israelis, while an Israeli contingent would humiliate the P.L.O. Arafat might commute by helicopter...