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...hatred. In his San Diego speech he parodied a pompous white military officer speaking in empty and orotund phrases. Then he mimicked a black sergeant talking about the coming war in the Persian Gulf: "We gonna kick butt and go home." Describing an encounter with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at his White House treaty signing with Yasser Arafat, Powell put on a New York Jewish accent. And he even worked around the edges of gay sensibilities. "Arafat ... is so taken with the moment that he starts to pull me toward him and hug me and give...
...YITZHAK RABIN Election prospects for Israel's beleaguered PM are brighter following opposition rift...
Syria rejected an Israeli demand for athree-year test of peaceful relations before it withdraws from the Golan Heights, then suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was seeking toundermine peace talksscheduled for June 27 in Washington. "Israel has resumed the policy of maneuvering and scattered the wave of optimism . . . and put all peace efforts exerted by the international community in jeopardy," Syria's official government daily, Tishrin, wrote today.TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays the statement contradicts positive signals that Syrian President Hafez Assad has sent through diplomatic channels in the wake of Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
...poll conducted in late April found that only 45% of Israelis still favored the peace accord. At the time it was signed, 61% favored it. Other recent polls show Israelis consistently preferring Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the opposition Likud Party, over Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Netanyahu is harshly critical of the peace agreement and has said he considers it a dead letter because of Palestinian violations. Most Palestinians -- 69% by one survey -- approved of the agreement when it was made. Now only 40% report satisfaction with it, according to a poll released last week by the Jerusalem Media and Communications...
...startling about-face at an emergency meeting, the Cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin suspended the government's seizure of 131 acres in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem for the purpose of building mostly Jewish housing. The plan had stirred widespread international protest and threatened Rabin's government with a no-confidence vote...