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...AVIV: Lending support to recent charges by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Yasser Arafat is doing nothing to restrain violence by militant Islamic groups, U.S. officials said they fear that the Palestinian leader has lost control of Hamas, the group that claimed responsibility for the Tel Aviv suicide bombing last Friday. In one-on-one meetings earlier this year, U.S. officials ranging from President Clinton to Acting CIA Director George Tenet took Arafat severely to task for releasing imprisoned Islamic guerillas who had been involved in earlier terrorist attacks against Israelis, The Washington Post reports. While U.S. officials denied...
Despite such pressures, Meyerson managed to restrain Penn's tuition increases. By 1980 Penn's base tuition was $5,270, more than double the cost a decade earlier, but inflation had risen at roughly the same rate. So had median family income. If tuition was higher, so was America's ability...
...people rushed the stage and grabbed microphones to sing along, the staff of the Middle East couldn't restrain the youthful onslaught. An inexplicable intensity in Goldfinger's music triggered the young audience in a way it could not have done for any other age group. The uncontrollable sight was amazing. Goldfinger's greatest talent must have been their unbelievable method of manipulating the audience into a frenzy. Soon the crowd replaced the music as entertainment, but quickly turned as uninteresting as the band's songs...
...went Democratic for the first time in decades largely because of the Latino vote. The emergent political power of Latinos was evident in the race for California's 46th district, where Loretta Sanchez defeated Rep. Bob Dornan, known for his rhetorical bombast and unreconstructed xenophobia. The Republicans' attempts to restrain immigration and to cut back health and educational benefits for legal immigrants did not win them favor among Latino (or Asian) voters. Unless the Republican Party can purge itself of its recurrent tendencies toward nativism and xenophobia, it will continue to lose the growing Latino vote to the Democrats...
...every campaign also opens new wounds, and this year's survivors have scores to settle. The Democrats and their allies spent millions drawing blood from Republicans for planning to restrain Medicare, knowing full well that any serious effort to balance the budget would require doing just that. The questions raised about Clinton's fund-raising machine are an invitation to months of congressional investigations that could paralyze both parties. So which will it be? A replay of July, when in one week the White House and Congress moved forward together on welfare reform, health-care portability and raising the minimum...