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...Secretary of State James Baker toured the region, the betting was that the Israeli leader would stall, if not turn Baker down flat. Defense Minister Moshe Arens predicted to the newspaper Yediot Aharonot that Baker would leave without any agreement that "will bring about the meeting he wants to organize." Even if Shamir accepted, right-wing parties would almost certainly leave his coalition and topple the government. New elections would then delay a peace conference further...
...East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Ostensibly, the building boom is needed to house a growing settler population. But it is really meant to strengthen the Jewish state's claim to the territories prior to any negotiations. If Shamir can stall long enough, he hopes to make Israel's presence in the territories irreversible before peace talks even begin. Says Dedi Zucker, a left-wing Knesset member: "The idea is simply to destroy any chance that Israel will have to give up land for peace...
South African black violence may stall talks on a multiracial state...
...million, was traumatized both by Saddam's calls for a holy war against the allies and by worries that the postwar insurrections would bring militant Shi'ites to power. "During the war, we were praying for the allied pilots," confesses a young Christian woman browsing at a stall selling women's clothing. The majority of her fellow believers, the woman asserts, want to leave Iraq for good if Saddam keeps his promise to lift the ban on foreign travel this week. Many Iraqis, however, believe the government will require those who venture abroad to leave behind their money and relatives...
...smaller military has been no less greedy. Last year, the government made secret payments of several million dollars a month over its official budget to the military. The military has also helped to stall privatization efforts and continues to confiscate privately-owned farms, said the president of a farm organization in a New York Times article yesterday...