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...cannot to do it alone," Netanyahu said. "We want to live up to agreements but cannot be the only ones. We yield to no one in our desire for peace." Clinton, of course, had supported Shimon Peres, the narrow loser in the May 29 Israeli election and the surest ticket to continued peace talks with Syria under U.S. auspices. Although Netanyahu had clearly set out to warm up relations with the White House, he rejected unconditional peace talks with Syria and said he had no plans to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "There wasn't a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between "Rock Solid" and a Hard Place | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

Protecting children is the surest way of protecting the future of America, said Marian W. Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) to a full house at the IOP's ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School last night...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Edelman Advocates Protecting Children | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

According to Bill Anderson, president of the Christian Booksellers Association, 90% of buyers are women, and the average age of readers is 42. In the past year, sales by the seven biggest publishers of the genre have surpassed $43 million. Perhaps the surest sign that the field is a rich one is the big names it is attracting: televangelist Pat Robertson and Watergate felon turned Evangelical Charles Colson have jumped in with first novels this fall. Robertson's galvanizing The End of the Age (Word; 374 pages; $21.99) is about a meteor catastrophe worthy of the book of Revelation; Colson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ALMIGHTY TO THE RESCUE | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...surest measure of a country's freedom is the security enjoyed by its minorities. Irish human-rights activist Paul Hill said last night at an honorary dinner sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Irish Cultural and Historical Society (ICHS) at Eliot House...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Hill Advocates Minority Rights | 11/2/1995 | See Source »

...they don't, the Americans want to use soldiers and civilian contractors to arm and train the Bosnian Muslim army. The Administration seems convinced that troops can do this and still remain evenhanded peacekeepers; critics say it's the fastest way to destroy the perception of neutrality, and the surest strategy for provoking the Serbs and Croatians. Perry, Christopher and Shalikashvili seemed unruffled by such issues, pointing out that it will be weeks before the Balkan leaders finish their haggling in Ohio--plenty of time, they said, to smooth out wrinkles in the strategy. "Do I believe we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME TO KEEP THE PROMISE | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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