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...typically Canadian fashion, the company was far too polite to take any overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree He was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we swore we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob Him, like a dam waiting to burst. We looked at each other, wondering who would be first to release the floodgate...
...semi-autonomous Gaza Strip. To date, the P.L.O. chairman has treated the Islamists gingerly for fear of igniting a Palestinian civil war. Israeli officials expressed hope that now he would get tough. Palestinian security forces have rounded up 20 alleged Islamic Jihad activists. Nabil Shaath, Arafat's planning minister, swore, ``This time, it will not be a show [detention] for two or three days...
...begin the GOP campaign to fulfill the party's "Contract With America" today. In a 43-minute address to the House, Gingrich said he had two over-riding goals: to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 and "to truly replace the current welfare state with an opportunity society." He swore in the new members of the House and began debate on rule changes that would slash committee staffs, abolish three House committees and require a three-fifths vote to raise income tax rates. Republicans now have majorities in both chambers: 230-204 with one independent in the House...
...took three different people, (one of whom swore at me a couple of times), two different floors, and a good half and hour of playing trial and error before I finally, on my own, figured out where I could possibly, but not necessarily, get some medical attention...
Arafat's spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...