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Barely three months ago, the staid political weekly Die Zeit commented that Helmut Kohl's control was so unchallenged that it would be hard to imagine Bonn without him as Chancellor. How quickly things change. Germany has a high standard of living and low inflation, but the latest polls suggest that if elections were held now, Kohl's Christian Democratic Union would be soundly trounced...
...random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past ten years. Two weeks ago, an eight-year-old Jewish boy was found murdered near the West...
...latest bloodletting erupted two weeks ago when 200 Palestinian Arab students at Bir Zeit University, 25 miles north of Jerusalem, launched a demonstration against the Israeli occupation. Specifically, they were objecting to a temporary roadblock that had been erected by the Israelis. When Israeli soldiers advanced, the students threw stones, and the soldiers responded with tear gas and then bullets. Two students, both of them 22, were killed instantly. The next day a 14-year-old was shot dead at the Balata refugee camp, where three days later Zeitun was killed. Skirmishes flared as soldiers fought running street battles with...
...Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank on the fifth day of riots against Israeli occupation of the West Bank...
...have been working for years to improve the quality of the Rhine's water, but that project has now been set back at least a decade. Indeed, as the bad news mounted, even the river's legend seemed in peril. In a front-page cartoon, the German weekly Die Zeit showed the mythic Lorelei looking lost and forlorn. The reason: chemicals were making the maiden's hair fall...