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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israel seeks ways to provide sufficient "security" for the settlers. As Palestinian frustration threatens to unravel the peace, many Israelis fear the nation's fate is being held hostage by a tiny band of religious extremists. Even if Israeli forces in the city move back soon, the settlers' uncompromising zeal could touch off confrontations that might consume any hope of permanent peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OVER THEIR DEAD BODIES | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

QUOTE OF NOTE: "We need a balance in Congress. But we must cut with compassion. In the zeal to downsize government, we cannot sacrifice the most vulnerable among us--our senior citizens and our children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: GEORGIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...energetic and effective environmentalist. He founded "Save the Rice Farm," which successfully lobbied to preserve a local farm, was the first president of a committee to protect the Danda Forest and is a leader of his local chapter of the Conservation Foundation. The question is whether ecological zeal is enough to unseat one of the most powerful Republicans on the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ILLINOIS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...Greenville 29602. Tel.: 864-421-9696 Inglis, who's courting South Carolina legend by sleeping on an air mattress in his congressional office, approaches "right-sizing" the Federal Government with monastic dedication. For the nation's good, he's against pork-barrel spending and furthers his political zeal as co-chairman of the Term Limits National Campaign. In keeping with that duty, 1996 would be his last term--as he positions himself to challenge Senator Ernest Hollings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: SOUTH CAROLINA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...what you will about Spike Lee's uneven talents as a film director, there is no gainsaying his entrepreneurial zeal or commitment to enhancing the black presence in Hollywood. Case in point: Get On the Bus, Lee's celebration of the Million Man March, which opens on Oct. 16, the first anniversary of the event. Apart from its subject matter, the movie is nothing special. But in its unprecedented method of financing, Bus represents an important breakthrough for racial equity. Its entire budget came from black male investors inspired by the march's message of self-reliance. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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