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...over and over. Would Russia backslide from reform and closer ties with the West? Would it reclaim its old sphere of influence in Central Europe? Indeed, Yeltsin looked with dismay at attempts of former East-bloc nations to join NATO. Why should they want to join? "Russia does not threaten any country in Central or Eastern Europe," he told TIME...
...argues that the arrangement would affect the livelihood of many Japanese and South Korean rice farmers, threaten textile workers in Europe and the U.S., and create problems for factory workers at inefficient plants worldwide. Such losses should, in theory, be offset by new employment in export-related industries, where wages are usually higher than average -- 17% higher in the U.S, for example. An accord should also lower prices for consumers, who ultimately pay the hidden costs of protectionism. A U.S. family of four pays as much as $420 a year more for clothes than necessary, thanks to high U.S. textile...
...sight of Jews killed by Palestinians is always guaranteed to provoke outrage in Israel. But many Israelis have little sympathy for extremist settlers in the occupied territories, a minority whose vigilantism has done as much as their fanatical counterparts on the Palestinian side to threaten the peace process. For two groups who can't work together on anything else, their collaboration at keeping violence alive has been remarkably successful: five days before Israel was scheduled to begin pulling its forces out of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was forced to pour...
...Nuclear weapons threaten to endanger human life and civilization," says Forrow, also an instructor in medicine at the Medical School who practices at the Beth Israel Hospital. "It is unrealistic to think that if they exist that they won't be used...
...Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggled to settle their differences over security and border issues by Dec. 13, Rabin warned that meeting the deadline "looks difficult." Arafat, too, worried that the violence "could threaten the peace process." But, the P.L.O. chairman told TIME, "the process will go forward in spite of everything." Even if the beginning of Israeli troop withdrawal slips past the scheduled day, the hour when authority will be transferred into Palestinian hands is fast approaching. The most critical question now is whether Arafat and the Palestinians are ready to rule themselves...