As U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Iraq this week and U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf stood down from high alert, the world breathed a sigh of relief after yet another race to the brink with Saddam Hussein.
Two months ago, most pundits were predicting that the White House sex scandal would trigger a Republican earthquake at the polls. But Tuesday\’s electoral tremors mostly rattled a GOP leadership that made Bill Clinton\’s moral lapses a top issue despite polls suggesting voters were tired of the controversy and opposed to impeachment.
Asked to discuss the accomplishments of the 105th Congress, which erupted last week in a frenzy of last-minute wheeling and dealing as lawmakers tried to avert another politically costly government shutdown, Rep. Ben Cardin\’s response was succinct. \”It will be a very brief conversation,\” said the Maryland Democrat, a senior member of the Jewish delegation in the House.
Asked to discuss the accomplishments of the 105th Congress, which erupted last week in a frenzy of last-minute wheeling and dealing as lawmakers tried to avert another politically costly government shutdown, Rep. Ben Cardin\’s response was succinct.
LAPD officer Terri Utley says that since Los Angeles is such a diverse, multicultural place, it\’s difficult to know sometimes what the taboos and customs are in different groups. \”Our goal is to serve, cooperate and not offend,\” she says.
Hate groups have been out of the news in recent months, but that doesn\’t mean they are not exploiting recent events–including the tumult on the stock market and the Monica Lewinsky scandal–to expand their base.
For several years, Soviet Jewry activists in this country — the term seems archaic, but nothing better has been invented — have complained that their communal colleagues are ignoring the fate of the world\’s biggest endangered Jewish population.
It was a moment that almost perfectly defined thisweek\’s United Jewish Appeal young leadership conference inWashington. In one section of the vast Washington Hilton ballroom,hundreds of young Jews were intently listening as special U.S. peaceenvoy Dennis Ross and Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben-Elissar gavesharply differing views of the current Israeli-Palestinianstalemate.
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