Word: camp
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...fact that he has a nice following. He's the most effective leader in Congress on the nuts and bolts. You want him on your team." Austin hopes DeLay will fall into line behind Bush's agenda, which, after all, isn't exactly McGovernite. But the Bush camp doesn't know how far DeLay will let them go in accommodating moderates before he bolts--and takes his following with...
Justice Scalia, the Bush camp's fiercest defender, has two sons employed by law firms working on the Bush postelection phase. And according to the Wall Street Journal, O'Connor's husband said at an election-night party that his wife, a 70-year-old breast-cancer survivor, would like to retire but that she would be reluctant to leave if a Democrat won the presidency and got to select her successor. Hers was a key swing vote that ensured a Republican victory. A conflict? Says Lerman: "At the very least it creates an appearance problem...
...seem a little absurd that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are in Washington reprising the Camp David talks even as their followers continue to shoot at one another back home. Not least to the negotiators themselves, it appears, following reports that the suits on both sides almost came to blows in Thursday's session. But conventional wisdom holds that a peace deal with the Palestinians remains the key to Ehud Barak's chances of reelection, and that has encouraged an unlikely optimism among some observers of the talks. Still, the Israeli election on February 6 gives the talks...
...issue in the talks, as at Camp David, are the extent of Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian territories it occupied in 1967, the fate of the settlements it built there in the intervening years, the claims of Palestinian refugees driven out of Israel in 1948, and of course sovereignty over the hill in Jerusalem that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call Mazari al Sharif. Both sides have reported progress in talks over a deal brokered by the Americans, in which Israel would withdraw from more than 90 percent of the West Bank and Gaza and from most...
...party ended Peres's hopes late Thursday, by declining to nominate him as a candidate in Israel's prime ministerial election on February 6. That's good news for Barak, whose supporters have been pleading with Meretz to support the prime minister so as to avoid splitting the peace camp, although the strength of the challenge by arch-dove Peres bodes ill for Barak's efforts to regain the confidence of an electorate that had, only eight months ago, handed him a landslide victory over Benjamin Netanyahu. There also appears to have been some horse-trading going on, with Peres...