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...myth is simple and satisfying: genius labors long and hard, achieves brilliant success, wins Nobel Prize, basks in glory. But prizewinners' stories are rarely so straightforward. This year's controversial Peace Prize, for example, which was shared by Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, has triggered as much controversy as celebration. And for some of the other laureates, there are, behind the Nobel Committee's glowing citations, tales of recognition too long deferred, of promise lost, of pain and tragedy...
...their neck in a hostage crisis, uneasy partners Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the P.L.O. shared a Nobel Peace Prize
...bombing--which occurred on Dizingoff St., the city's commercial center--is the most recent of a series of terrorist attacks claimed by the group, including the recent kidnapping and slaying of an Israeli soldier. These events have occurred in stark contrast to recent triumphs by leaders Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in promoting the Arab-Israeli peace process...
Instead, the winners--Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chair Yasser Arafat--spoke soberly of the work that remains to be done if peace is to last. They acknowledged, somberly, the victims on both sides who have died in wars and terrorist attacks. They dedicated their honor to the memory of those victims...
Israel's Cabinet, in a furious attempt to crack down on the Islamic terrorist group Hamas, closed the West Bank and Gaza Strip indefinitely--a move that keeps as many as 80,000 Palestinians from their jobs in Israel. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat blasted the move as "economic and social war" on his people and "collective punishment" for Wednesday's Tel Aviv bombing by Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned...