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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerusalem, as the Israeli Cabinet voted its approval of the peace plan that had been secretly worked out with P.L.O. negotiators in Oslo, thousands of right-wing Israelis blocked the streets around government buildings and shouted their opposition to any compromise with terrorists. When demonstrators turned violent, police quelled them with water cannons, then bodily hauled away troublemakers...
...opinion poll last week showed that 53% of Israeli Jews supported the peace agreement, while 44% opposed it. The negative outcry in Israel was even louder among right-wing rejectionists than among the Palestinians. Having lost the last election partly on the peace issue, Likud could not do much more than shout...
...with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. In support of a national black teachers' strike, some of its members had initiated a campaign of violence and arson. But the "settlers" remark and a shirt allegedly worn by one of the attackers pointed toward the Pan-Africanist Students' Organization, a wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which coined the motto "One Settler, One Bullet," and the police arrested two teenage P.A.S.O. members. When informed of Biehl's death, P.A.S.O. president Tsietsi Telite said unrepentantly, "The youths and students are so angry and frustrated that when they see someone they identify with...
...region's reputation as a haven has also led it to harbor right-wing cliques and go-it-alone extremists. The mercenary periodical Soldier of Fortune is published in Boulder. And such rural backwaters as Hayden Lake, Idaho, are headquarters to sundry survivalists, skinheads and supremacist groups like the White Aryan Nation...
Step 1: in an attack by Islamic Resistance, the military wing of Hizballah, seven Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Step 2: Israel retaliated with an air attack on Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Two more Israeli soldiers died in a subsequent attack. Last week 395 Palestinians who have been stranded in southern Lebanon since being deported by Israel last December agreed to a plan that would return just under half of them to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip next month. Israel says the remaining deportees will return home this December...