Word: winging
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Still, the group's political and military wing together offered a cease-fire if Israel would release all Hamas prisoners, "stop terrorism" against the militants and halt all "aggression against Palestinian civilians." The organization has dangled truces before, but never in the name of the military wing. The cease-fire was supposed to be good until March 8 but plainly did not have the backing of all of Hamas' terror cells...
...were some of the militants looking for a pause? "Ramzi," a figure in the military wing of Hamas, says even hard-liners like himself are weary of being excluded from negotiations. "Arafat should not be the only one who decides what is good and bad for the Palestinians," he says...
...Irish counterpart, John Bruton, emerged from a Downing Street summit to present a joint plan for all-party talks on Ulster's future that could pave the way for peace. What was needed was a clear signal that the I.R.A. would call off the violence, thus allowing its political wing, Sinn Fein, to join the negotiations...
Rabin began her speech by vividly describing her husband's assassination by a right-wing Israeli virulently opposed to the peace process, after Rabin had addressed a peace rally of over 200,000 Israelis...
...CANDIDATES] P.V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party candidate...