Word: rabins
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...year that saw the Oklahoma bombing, the denouement of the O.J. Simpson trial, the Million Man March, the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Bosnian peace agreement, there were other men and women who shaped our world. But in the end, Gingrich is our 1995 Man of the Year because his rise and partial fall were emblematic of a historic shift in Washington that will be felt for generations to come. "For better or worse," says managing editor James R. Gaines, "he has changed the language and substance of American politics like no other politician in recent...
...happened so easily," reports Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer, who joined millions of Israelis Tuesday evening in watching a broadcast of a grainy amateur videotape of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. "No one made any effort to stop the assassin. Television showed with arrows how incredibly easy it was for him. You see him for some time milling around the area where Rabin was going to get into his car. At one point, he was surrounded by three policemen who were just sitting right next to him and obviously weren't suspicious. You see him standing there cool...
Yigal Amir chewed gum, grinned and played to the cameras as he went on trial for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Although the 25-year-old law student freely admits to the murder, Judge Edmond Levy immediately granted the defense a recess until January 23 so the lawyers would have time to study the evidence, possibly to seek technical grounds for a plea of not guilty...
...year of our presence within the war-ravaged territory. The peace accord, much as the settlement in the Middle East following World War II, is far from a stability-inducing measure. Though Clinton would like us to consider it in the same light as the historical handshake between Rabin and Arafat, the accord anticipates a renewed conflict following the removal of the NATO force...
...will return his attention to the Middle East, departing Thursday for Damascus, Jerusalem, Egypt and the West Bank. TIME's Johanna McGeary says Peres thinks Christopher may be able to get the talks moving again: "Peres wants to use the U.S. as a key to unlock the negotiations. Unlike Rabin, whose style was to negotiate by incremental steps, Peres wants to secure a complete agreement. He's saying 'make me an offer.'" The reason, McGeary says, is political: "Peres only has a year before the election. His people think that he can gain a lot by making a deal with...