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Black, George | January 2, 1989 issue

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The article focuses on prevailing political conditions in the U.S. and around the world, as of January 2, 1989. The U.S. has finally opened a diplomatic dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in the wake of Yasir Arafat's momentous December 13, 1988 speech in Geneva. The Israelis are not happy about the U.S.-PLO connection, but they cannot ignore it, and peace in the Middle East is closer as a result. Another development focuses on the celebrated political trials in the U.S. These cases are about sex, gender, race and madness, sometimes all together, packaged by, the media in extremely personal terms, as if to deny the dictum of the 1960s that personal problems are also political issues.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; INTERNATIONAL relations; MUNAZZAMAT al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyah; ARAFAT, Yasir, 1929-2004; ARAB-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace; ACTIONS & defenses -- United States; UNITED States
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