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...temptation for the Palestinian team. Though the talks have focused mostly on the security of the settlers, Friedman demonstrated that the Arabs of Hebron are also at great risk. Even under Palestinian self-rule, the site of the attempted massacre as well as all the areas of Jewish settlement will remain under exclusive Israeli control. Palestinian negotiators, however, resisted the lure of reopening this issue, mindful of the fact that Netanyahu will have a difficult time as it is in getting the Hebron agreement through his right-wing Cabinet. Seven of the 18 government ministers have said they will definitely...
...North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea to talk about starting four-power (North, South, U.S. and China) negotiations on a formal peace settlement of the Korean War 43 years after its end. North Korea faced a choice: belligerent business as usual, possibly leading to the regime's collapse, or knuckling under to demands from South Korea and the U.S. for better behavior. After reviewing the options, Pyongyang blinked. Says Assistant Secretary of State Winston...
...family. Attracted by the site, some 400 Israeli settlers, mostly religious extremists, live in enclaves amid Hebron's 100,000 Arabs. Mindful of a 1929 pogrom against Jewish Hebronites, the settlers fear that Palestinian self-rule will lead to their slaughter. Friedman, an Orthodox Jew from a settlement near Jerusalem, said he acted to stop any Israeli retreat in Hebron. Pumping his fist and grinning in triumph at reporters after his arrest, he repeated the nationalist chant "Hebron always and forever...
...Hinkley, Calif. when her investigations revealed that hundreds of people in a single neighborhood had been exposed to water contaminated with chromium-6, dumped there by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brockovich convinced her firm to bring action against the company, resulting in 1996 in a $330 million settlement, the largest-ever toxic tort injury settlement in U.S. history. Brockovich-Ellis’ crusade was dramatized in the 2001 Hollywood blockbuster “Erin Brockovich,” starring actress Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for the role.But many scientists insist that no link has been established between...
Kopko said the letter proposed settlement terms that included ceasing all DormAid operations in the Boston area, never hiring an HSA employee, and paying a significant...