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...mission to investigate Israeli forces' attack on the Jenin refugee camp. Denying allegations of a massacre at Jenin, Israel insists that the U.N. inquiry include an investigation of Palestinian "terrorism" and that both sides agree on a framework for the U.N. team's activities. In Ramallah, the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his besieged headquarters and reported some progress in resolving the standoff at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Nine youths and the bodies of two policemen were allowed to leave the church, where 250 people have been holed up for weeks...
Though Turkey has had some shameful episodes in its history, the Turkish government is trying very hard to work out its imperfections and to improve. Turkey benefits from some very stable institutions that help it to remain vibrantly democratic against all odds. One of these institutions that can be a model for other states is a fiercely independent supreme court committed to restraining the pernicious influences of religious extremism and demagoguery...
...year, Turkey has suffered from crushing inflation of more than 65 percent. Effective direct American assistance to alleviate Turkey’s economic problems and better the lot of the average Turk would serve a dual purpose. First, it would relieve the political stress caused by inflation on a Turkish government already pressured by our campaign against terror. Second, effective American economic aid to Turkey would show Muslims throughout the Middle East that we are as kind to our friends as we are harsh towards our enemies. Aid to Turkey would also dramatically prove that America is not influenced...
...Israel, having them judge the situation before they even know what it is about. To claim that white Israeli Jewish soldiers are fighting against brown Palestinian Arabs is ridiculous. Not all Israelis are of European descent. On the contrary, there are large populations of Ethiopian, Jordanian, Iranian, Egyptian, Turkish, and Palestinian Jews living in Israel. These Israeli citizens serve in the army and defend their lives and the lives of other innocent civilians. In fact, many times, it is difficult to distinguish between a Jewish Israeli and a Palestinian Arab because both are of semitic descent—both...
...chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in Sept. 2000; in Ramallah. DIED. Spyros Kyprianou, 69, former President of Cyprus, who during his 11-year term stood uncompromisingly against the isle's separatist Turkish minority; in Nicosia. DIED. Irene Worth, 85, lauded actress of the British, American and Canadian stages, and screen, who won three Tony awards, the last for her role in Neil Simon's 1991 debut of Lost in Yonkers; in New York. (See Eulogy) DIED. James Tobin, 84, Yale professor emeritus...