Word: priming
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...Elected Lothar de Maiziere, the Christian Democratic leader, as Prime Minister...
...cryptogram that many predict will someday be decoded to mean a Palestinian state. While opposing that particular outcome, Labor is at least willing to begin negotiating with the Palestinians and see where the process leads. Likud seems not to be, which is why Shamir did everything he could as Prime Minister to delay the opening of peace talks...
...turn out that Bush did Israel a favor. However inadvertently, he helped expose the Likud-Labor coalition for what it was -- a government of national disunity and incapacity. The crisis he sparked underscored the need for a new electoral system that will yield a Prime Minister who is free of crippling alliances. To their credit, many Israelis were in the streets last week, venting their exasperation with deadlock democracy. From now on, the U.S. Government should encourage not just diplomacy between Israel and its Arab neighbors, but political reform within Israel as well. So should the American Jewish community -- including...
...government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki is against holding elections any sooner for fear of upsetting the economic reforms now taking hold. Moreover, many Solidarity officials and legislators are opposed to Walesa's candidacy, dismissing him as a political has-been out of touch with the new realities...
Kohl also becomes the fourth straight world leader--and the second German in four years--to deliver the Commencement address, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and West German President Richard von Weizsacker...