Word: yitzhak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jordan too needs money. At his summit this week in Washington with President Clinton and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Hussein will make a pitch for relief on $685 million of official U.S. debt and more than $6 billion in other foreign borrowing. Eager to tap international aid before the P.L.O. gets it all, Hussein hinted that he might agree to terms of a full peace treaty even if Syria is still haggling...
...Israeli officials said the bombing, in which explosives in a parked car injured 15 people, was another sign of an all-out war by Islamic fundamentalists against the peace process. But the attack failed to overshadow the unprecedented appearances before Congress. Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin drew whoops and standing ovations from U.S. lawmakers by vowing to make their peace agreement work at home. The show doesn't come cheap. Jordan is seeking forgiveness of $1 billion it owes the U.S. -- something Congress must approve...
Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein will meet publicly for the first time next week in Washington, President Clinton announced, to push ahead with peace agreements between the two sides. The leaders will address a joint session of Congress and be guests of honor at a White House dinner. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meanwhile were meeting in Cairo to discuss expanding Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank beyond the town of Jericho, and other security issues...
...dealing with his son, the big-haired enigma, Kim Jong Il.ARGENTINA . . . WAS THE BOMB BLAST REVENGE? The blowing up of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires yesterday may have been retaliation for Israel's gains against Hizballah, the Iran-backed terrorist group, according to Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In June, Israel bombed Hizballah's training base in Lebanon, killing 26 guerrillas and wounding 40. After the attack, TIME reported that Hizballah leader Hussein Musawi had promised revenge "perhaps in Europe and America.'' Iran has denied involvement in the Buenos Aires attack, which killed 26 people and injured over...
...long-delayed arrival brought to fruition the tentative peace agreement that Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin approved on the White House lawn last September. When he stepped onto Palestinian land for the first time in 27 years last Friday, Arafat was wearing his usual green military- style uniform, holstered pistol and checkered kaffiyeh. But he acknowledged that he must now switch roles from guerrilla leader to head of government. "We need national unity," he told a crowd of 70,000, who repeatedly drowned out his words with cheers. "Big, big, big, big missions await us -- to build this...