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...feet of schools or playgrounds. After fashioning this policy missile, the Clinton camp hurled it right at Bob Dole, who half-heartedly defended tobacco last month, questioning whether it was really addictive. "Bob Dole faces a big decision today: protect children or protect the tobacco lobby," said Administration spokesman Joe Lockhart. "Dole will defend himself by bringing up the Administration's bad record on the drug issue," says TIME's John Dickerson. "Right now, the drug issue is a powerful one, and it is one reason why Clinton seized on the teen smoking problem. Dole will keep his mouth shut...
JERUSALEM: After his attempts to bring Syrian President Hafez Assad to the negotiating table were briskly rebuffed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to turn to the U.S. for help. State Department spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks...
JERUSALEM: After his attempts to bring Syrian President Hafez Assad to the negotiating table were briskly rebuffed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to turn to the U.S. for help. State Department spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Although CNN and Associated Press reports that anywhere from three to six men have been arrested, taken into custody, interrogated and even confessed to the Dharahn bombing, the U. S. State Department is sounding a cautionary note. A state department spokesman said that although a handful of Saudis were in custody for questioning, the U.S. government was not prepared to say who they were, or even if they had been officially arrested. "There is no confirmation of anything yet," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "The Saudis have taken people into custody in this investigation before. We should...
...Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai will present the proposal, which calls for Israeli troops to continue to patrol both the streets of Hebron and the corridor between Hebron and the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, gradually pulling out if no violence occurs. An Israeli government spokesman said the plan simply increases attention to security issues, but Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, dismissed it entirely as a violation of earlier agreements: "We do not accept anything short of the implementation of the accord. The negotiations cannot be reopened." Under the original agreement, Israeli troops...