World & Nation
Mideast: Hopes wane as leader reiterates hard-line views on settlements and division of Jerusalem.
July 14, 1996
“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Sept. 14, 1993
Secretary of State George P.
June 8, 1988
A month before his militia killed 18 U.S. soldiers on Oct. 4, Somali faction leader Mohammed Farah Aidid offered to cease hostilities and begin a “mutual dialogue” with the United Nations, according to a confidential U.N. document.
Oct. 17, 1993
Politics
The Bush Administration called Wednesday for an early resumption of peace talks to test the negotiating flexibility promised by Yitzhak Rabin, the Labor Party leader who is poised to become Israel’s next prime minister.
June 25, 1992
Here is the text of President Reagan’s speech Thursday to the U.N.
Oct. 25, 1985
The United States and the Soviet Union, which in their four decades of Cold War rivalry battled one another over and over through regional surrogates, will convene a peace conference in Madrid this week in an effort to end the most vexing of those conflicts--that between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
Oct. 27, 1991
Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that his Haiti mission twice teetered on the edge of failure and the military leaders in Port-au-Prince were on the verge of deciding to fight to the bitter end--only to be turned around by emotion-charged appeals from American negotiators.
Sept. 20, 1994
Violence: Palestinian anger at lack of progress in talks boils over. Israeli fears of facing armed force come true.
Sept. 27, 1996
The Clinton Administration on Thursday summoned Bosnian and Croatian leaders to discuss creation of a joint Muslim-Croatian state covering half of Bosnia-Herzegovina--an idea that U.S. officials consider a key building block for peace in the divided republic.
Feb. 25, 1994