Word: rabins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arafat's aides think they deserve credit for even getting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to resolve most of the security issues, especially since his military advisers kept raising objections right up to the last minute. At 7 p.m. last Wednesday, when the Egyptians summoned journalists for the signing ceremony, Peres suddenly received a telephone call from Rabin. Army officers still had questions about the procedures for screening Palestinians coming across the Allenby Bridge from Jordan into the West Bank. Mubarak sent a personal message to Rabin urging flexibility, while Moussa offered a compromise that allowed a Palestinian policeman...
...Rabin says it will take at least a month more to resolve the remaining details of the Gaza-Jericho pact. But negotiators on both sides are hoping that after their toughest problems are tamed in Cairo, the rest of the work will go quickly. "I accept his deadline," says P.L.O. senior negotiator Nabil Shaath, "but I hope to beat it." The pace will have to pick up, however, before the goodwill spreads beyond the negotiators to the people whose lives they are shaping...
...Since Rabin is on leave in Israel, Harlow brought the package to Gold who immediately notified Harvard police...
Minutes after Rabin's assistant received the package, Boston and Cambridge bomb squads and Harvard police arrived at Pierce Hall and evacuated the building...
...Rabin's assistant Carol Harlow, who cited the recent history of letter bomb scares, said the package immediately looked suspicious...