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...chairman of the P.L.O., and Abbas, secretary-general of its executive committee, became further strained. After a dispute that year about the terms of a second peace agreement, Abbas headed to his Qatar home, refused to talk to Arafat and didn't return to the West Bank for months. Tension between the two rose again this past year, say senior officials in the Fatah faction of the P.L.O. to which Abbas and Arafat belong. Abbas, they say, lost faith in Arafat when he didn't respond to Abbas' urgings to end the violence of the intifadeh. Abbas believes the uprising...
...corruption scandals involving the NIS, agents of which have been routinely called upon to do powerful politicians' dirty work, have crippled presidencies and dragged the agency's name through the mud. But conservative lawmakers are worried the housecleaning comes at an inopportune time, during a period of heightened tension over North Korea's nuclear-weapons development. The NIS will still ferret out North Korean spies. But the job of catching domestic sympathizers will be passed to the country's police. The fear is that the shift in responsibilities, as well as efforts to make the NIS more accountable, will make...
...There’s tension between trying to construct Radcliffe as an institute which has both intellectual distinction and is tied in some way to Harvard’s strengths, and trying to maintain an institute which focuses on gender,” she says. “That may be a healthy tension, but I think it may also be a tension that shifts the identity of the Institute...
While Yale, Princeton and Brown dominated the league this year, an intense rivalry sprang up between the Crimson and the Big Green, complete with its own ceremonial hardware. The tension had been heightened by Dartmouth’s higher finish at the Brown Invitational just two weeks earlier...
...Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress are challenging Bremer's plan to elect a 35-member consultative body to advise him on political decisions, and have threatened to hold their national assembly in defiance of his edicts. But managing the competing claims of rival Iraqi groups amid mounting tension, fighting the Baathist holdouts while working to restore security and basic services are now part of the administration's daily agenda in Iraq...