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...present vacuum, there is talk about Lebanon once again becoming a battlefield. A Western diplomat believes 10,000 Palestinian guerrillas are under arms inside the country. Camps like Ein al-Helweh in southern Lebanon, virtually off-limits to the Lebanese army, are awash with AK-47s. With schoolchildren raised on militant nationalism and playing war in the streets, Lebanese regard the refugee camps as ticking time bombs. The fear is that Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon, on orders from Arafat, the Syrians, the Iranians or out of their own desperation, will join the intifadeh by staging operations into northern Israel. That...
...University together with 11 other donors to improve and expand opportunities for Boston's youth. Though likely motivated by its desire to stay on good terms with its neighbors, Not only will Harvard's $5 million contribution help Harvard's public relations, it will also help thousands of Boston schoolchildren to enjoy quality afterschool activities that their school districts would otherwise be unable to afford. Afterschool activities contribute immensely to the academic experience, and we are glad that Harvard has chosen this project for its generosity...
...seems ironic that an act of generosity could inspire such tensions. But Harvard does have an interest in maintaining strong relations with Cambridge, since the city's decisions have significant effects on the University. Moreover, the schoolchildren of Cambridge are certainly no less deserving than their Boston counterparts. The University should therefore strengthen its commitment to Cambridge afterschool programs so that its efforts here are at least proportional to the Boston initiative...
...less manufacturing them. Last week an explosion ripped apart Zhang's school in Jiangxi province, killing more than 40 students and teachers and shedding stark light on the dangerous prevalence of child labor in China and on a political culture that can make anything, even the accidental death of schoolchildren, into a political loyalty test. For Zhang, who graduated a year ago, the disaster was more personal: her 10-year-old sister Xiaofeng died in the blast...
...Palestinian Arabs through decades of terrorism. Had the Palestinian Arabs had a Gandhi to lead them instead of an Arafat, they would have had their state years ago. Arafat's war against Israel, including the massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich in '72 and the murder of 21 schoolchildren in Ma'alot in '74, isolated the Palestinian cause and resulted in the Palestinians-as-terrorists stereotype. The latest round of terrorism Arafat has launched against Israel has devastated the Palestinian economy. MacLeod ignored the context in which the Palestinian refugees were created in 1948. At that time, the U.N. partition...