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...raising interest rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is: a) murdering the nation's economic recovery in order to satisfy a monomaniacal obsession with an inflation problem that does not exist; b) driving a timely stake through the heart of the inflation vampire before it can escape from its tomb; c) doing too little too late to prevent an imminent resurrection of ravaging inflation; d) taking action too mild to have much effect of any kind...
...knew Goldstein. Says Michael Guzofsky, the associate director of Kahane Chai, a splinter of the Kach Party: "In his mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a spot sacred in both Judaism and Islam where adherents of the two faiths pray at separate hours. "Sometimes he hit worshippers," says Mohammad Suleiman Abu Sarah, one of the unarmed Palestinian guards at the tomb. "And sometimes he refused to leave when it was time...
After Kahane was shot to death in 1990 by an Arab assassin in New York City, Goldstein's anger appeared to deepen. In remarks at the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, he vowed that someday a Jew would rise up and kill many Arabs in revenge for Kahane's death. Last fall Goldstein quit the Kiryat Arba council. Some neighbors say it was because the council had rejected his demand to bar new immigrants to Israel, many of them from Russia, from moving to Kiryat Arba. He felt they were not sufficiently devout...
...truly astonishing thing was how quickly, after Khrushchev's speech, it all disappeared. The statues were unpedestaled; the thousands of pictures vanished into cellars; Stalin's auto-monument, his embalmed body, which lay in state beside Lenin's in the tomb under the Kremlin wall, was deaccessioned, hoicked out and cremated, and its ashes were scattered...
...Benazir Bhutto tenderly sprinkled red and yellow flowers on her father's marble tomb last week, the scene amounted to only a brief respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed...