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...PALESTINIAN WHO IS AN ADVOCATE of peace, I am very saddened by the assassination of Rabin. Peace sometimes is very costly, but as Yasser Arafat said, this is the peace of the brave. The Palestinians lost a peace partner; the Israelis lost a peacemaker; and the world lost a good leader. There are hard-liners on both sides who oppose peace, but we shall not reward them by breaking down. We must continue with the process, as Rabin would have wanted us to do. MOHAMED HASSAN Hemet, California...
...GREATEST OBSTACLE TO MIDDLE East peace may not be conflict among nations but within them. Witness the assassinations of Egypt's Anwar Sadat and now Israel's Yitzhak Rabin. Both men were internationally praised for their efforts to institute lasting peace. Both men won Nobel Peace Prizes alongside former enemies. And now both men have died at the hands of their own countrymen. DAVID R. FINE Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
...ASSASSINATION OF RABIN DEMONstrates that the rise of religious fundamentalism, be it Christian, Islamic or Jewish, presents the greatest danger to world peace. MICHAEL LIPSHUTZ North Caulfield, Australia...
...Labor Party, newly installed Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 72, named a group of younger politicians to his Cabinet while retaining the key Defense Ministry post as his own. Ehud Barak, 53, the former Interior Minister, was appointed Foreign Minister, the job held by Peres under slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yossi Beilin, 47, was named Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, a new position that will enable him to administer the peace with the Palestinians...
...daughter of Leah Rabin told Israeli television on Monday evening that her mother "has the ingredients to be a leader in her own right," encouraging more speculation about Mrs. Rabin's political future. "When Rabin died," explains TIME's Robert Slater, "all of the warm feelings people had about the prime minister were focused on Leah. She became a Jackie Kennedy kind of figure, exhibiting strength, helping the country get through the crisis and, doing something Jackie Kennedy did not do, speak out over and over again, even during the seven-day mourning period. That's where the feeling began...