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- <text id=93TT1077>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: On the Defensive
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 13
- WORLD
- On the Defensive
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A rash of violence in and around Israel further dampens prospects
- for peace
- </p>
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- <p> It's been a bad spell in the midst of a bad season. Gunmen shot
- an Israeli couple in their automobile last Sunday, injuring
- both; the next day stone throwers who hit a car fractured the
- skull of an infant passenger. At a Jerusalem bus stop on the
- same day, an assailant believed to be Palestinian stabbed a
- man to death and injured a woman before fleeing. Israeli soldiers
- shot and killed five Palestinians last week, for a total of
- 18 this month. The blood swapping comes amid tensions over the
- deportation in December of about 400 Palestinians as well as
- the current effort to resume Middle East peace talks. Worsening
- the climate, Israeli and South Lebanese Army units killed six
- Lebanese and Palestinian gunmen as well as two civilians in
- clashes north of the security zone. U.S. Secretary of State
- Warren Christopher waltzed into the region's ferment, arriving
- in Cairo at the start of a six-country tour. His task: to get
- the peace talks moving again.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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