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...November the death toll had climbed to 270, most of them Palestinians. The three participants in the earlier U.S. meeting found themselves caught in various binds: President Bill Clinton was desperate for a large foreign policy victory to burnish his legacy but had a very short deadline; Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who had sacrificed his coalition government when he sat down with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in July, was forced to hang tough against the Palestinians if he wanted to keep power at all; and Arafat was faced with an ever more restive constituency. It was an unshakable stalemate...
Pierre Trudeau 80 The dashing Prime Minister fought Quebec separatism and proved a temporary antidote to Canada's staid, fusty image...
Sirimavo Bandaranaike 84 The Sri Lankan was world's first female Prime Minister...
...need no bases. But patient cooperation with allied intelligence services and good police work has paid dividends in thwarting a number of attacks and breaking up a number of Bin Laden networks. Still, the problem of terrorism is more political than military, and Bin Laden is certainly a prime beneficiary from the fact that U.S. standing in the Arab world has diminished considerably on President Clinton's watch...
...Israeli prime minister, these are not natural times. Barak is campaigning for an early election on Feb. 6 with fast-fading support in the polls. He needs a platform, something to take to the voters besides more negotiations and more violence, and peace - a peace solution - is it. Without it, Barak's own democratic clock...