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Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu deserves credit for resisting the pressures of the Israeli Right and agreeing to complete important troop re-deployments in the West Bank. He was particularly courageous in agreeing to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails...
...Negotiations have been stalled since the beginning of the year, when Arafat accepted a U.S. compromise proposal over Israeli troop withdrawal from the West Bank and Netanyahu -- to the U.S.'s dismay -- refused. "The only way you get any movement in this process is by setting deadlines," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "But the last time the U.S. set a deadline for the Israelis, it backfired on Clinton because he wasn't prepared to risk a backlash from pro-Israel interests in the U.S. So the real question remains whether the White House is prepared to force the two sides...
Saving Private Ryan is neither a great film nor Spielberg's best effort, mostly because of one significant flaw: a weak, almost nonexistent storyline. A troop of soldiers (led by Tom Hanks, earnest and convincing as always in this limited role) is ordered to seek out a private who, fighting somewhere in France, is unaware that his three brothers have been killed in action. The U.S. government wants to send Private Ryan home to his bereaved mother...
KILLED. More than 20 BYSTANDERS; by a car bomb; in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The blast occurred last Saturday in a crowded shopping district on the 29th anniversary of British troop deployment in Northern Ireland. One of the worst acts of violence in the three-decade conflict, it took place 17 days before President Clinton's planned visit to the area...
...disappointed not to read in the Roy Rogers eulogies of his many charitable acts. During the Vietnam War, Rogers and his wife went to Vietnam to show their support for Americans fighting there as well as for the sick and wounded in troop hospitals. In Pleiku, where I was assigned, the hospital staff couldn't stop talking about how much they and the patients appreciated Rogers' coming to the highlands of Vietnam. CLARKE M. BRANDT Lieut. Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Aurora, Colo...