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Moreover, the plan is designed to be utterly unacceptable to Israel. It offers the most radical misinterpretation of what Israel is required to do under international law: surrender every inch of territory taken in the Six-Day War. There is nothing in international law that compels that. The governing U.N. Security Council resolution (Res. 242 of 1967) requires "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict." Not "all the territories." Not even "the territories." Just "territories." As the U.S. ambassador who helped draft the resolution explained, the definite article was deliberately omitted. Why? To permit Israel...
...favor from him tomorrow. Producer Lynda Obst, on whose book the series is based, is the host of this hectic how-to--as in "How to Make a Rotten Movie That Grosses $90 Mil." She looks fine, but a quick tip to the other producers: Lose the six-day beards. You're not Keanu Reeves...
...case that elbowed terrorism off the top of the radio talk-show topic list and gave American parents and sports fans plenty of dark thoughts, a Reading, Mass., truck driver was on trial last week for killing the adult supervising a kids' hockey scrimmage. Friday evening, after a six-day trial in which the defendant and his son both testified, a jury of nine women and three men convicted Thomas Junta, 44, of involuntary manslaughter, which could earn him up to 20 years in the state penalty box. The most likely sentence, to be announced at a hearing...
...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...