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...MOOD IN THE CABINET ROOM was so tense that the air seemed almost inflammable. A few hours earlier, another Palestinian suicide bomber had blown himself up, this time in downtown Tel Aviv amid a crowd of schoolchildren, killing 13 people. After the fourth such atrocity in little more than a week, even the most liberal leaders within the Israeli government sought vengeance. With a mob outside screaming for blood, ministers advocated sending Israeli troops to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. Others prescribed mass deportations of Palestinians. One even urged razing the villages from which the bombers came...
DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND: The massacre of 16 schoolchildren and their teacher last week by a gunman in Scotland has sparked a national debate on gun control in Britain. Thomas Hamilton killed the children and their teacher and wounded 12 others, including two other teachers, before killing himself last Wednesday. Many politicians are calling for more stringent gun laws. "We must take this as a warning that we are becoming like America and act before it is too late," said governing Conservative Party legislator David Mellor. Currently, people must be prove they have a good reason to won a gun and pose...
...present at this year's swearing-in-ceremony of the members of the school committee will recall that the newly-elected members of the committee, Turkel and Segat, stressed the importance of school committee members working as a team in order to provide the best possible education for the schoolchildren of Cambridge. It is therefore unfortunate that the first major motion by these newly-elected members served to foster divisiveness and division rather than the collegiality and cooperation that they are mouthing in their public statements to Cambridge parents and taxpayers...
...about the economy, says a U.S. diplomat. Agrees Lavalas Party chief Gerard Pierre-Charles: "Benefits are not visible." While inflation has dropped from above 50% to 17% and foreign loans have paid off Haiti's back debts, Aristide spent money on new ministries and instant gratification like backpacks for schoolchildren rather than investing in infrastructure. He only pretended to cut the civil service, hiring as many people as he fired...
...clear that the rest of society has come even as far as the N.B.A. The push for AIDS awareness among schoolchildren inspired by Ryan White has run into stiff resistance from conservative parents who don't want any discussion of sex, safe or otherwise, in the schools. The blatant discrimination that AIDS sufferers faced in the 1980s may have eased somewhat, but the stigma has not gone away. Witness the meanspirited provision Congress passed last week requiring armed-services personnel with HIV to be discharged from the military, even if they are otherwise in perfect health. President Clinton is expected...