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...peace agreement less that three years ago. "The 1993 deal has been the linchpin to peace," TIME correspondent Scott MacLeod says. "The Palestinian problem has always been at the center of the dispute between the Arabs and Israel. The peace deal paved the way for other countries to follow suit." Syria, which had been engaged in talks with Israel before the bombings, is not expected to send a representative to the summit. Syria supports many radical groups, including Hamas, and MacLeod says President Hafez Assad will eventually have to play a key role in preserving the peace agreement. "Assad...
That would explain the vehemence with which tobacco is fighting back--in some cases pre-emptively. Industry lawyers have already filed suits trying to block the possible Maryland and Texas cases. In West Virginia, Governor W. Gaston Caperton, with the support of several of his own judicial appointees, has for now effectively scuttled that action by suing his own attorney general, Darrell McGraw, on the grounds that he did not have the authority to file a Medicaid suit. A few weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, following Caperton's example, filed a similar suit against attorney general Moore. Fordice, though...
...million a year the state pays to treat tobacco-related illnesses and that allows lawsuits to collect these funds to use statistical evidence compiled by the Centers for Disease Control. "Profound sneak attack," charges one tobacco lobbyist. The tobacco industry and some associated industries, like U.S. Sugar, filed suit to repeal the bill; the Florida Supreme Court is expected to rule soon. Although last year Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed the legislature's repeal of the legislation, the lawmakers are expected to override that veto next month. Many have been swayed by lobbyists' arguments that if the state...
...exclusive interview she and assistant managing editor Joelle Attinger had with Fidel Castro after Cuba's shoot-down of rebel planes from the U.S. It was his fourth meeting in a year with TIME. "When we saw him in New York City in October, he wore a Dutch designer suit to woo the business community," she says. "This time he was back in fatigues." Fatigue is one word recent observers have pinned on the 69-year-old Castro, but last week, Booth says, "he looked fully invigorated by the crisis." So was Booth, like any reporter with a smart nose...
...falling to 5.5 percent, as the country posted its biggest one-month job increase since 1983. However, the good news sent a surprised Wall Street reeling. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 171.24 to finish at 5470.45, the third largest net one-day drop ever. Other markets followed suit. The NYSE composite was down 10.31 at 339.83, the Standard & Poor's 500 composite declined 20.46 at 633.19, the AMEX market value index was down 10.25 at 560.06, and the Nasdaq composite was off 23.38 at 1,069.74. The report driving the decline revealed that American businesses added...