The Palestinians are lobbying the United Nations for full recognition of their proposed state, regardless of whether the talks at Camp David produce a peace accord with Israel. A building made of Jerusalem stone is rising in a quiet Arab village just beyond the Mount of Olives. Within a year, a new national parliament for the Palestinian people is expected to be unveiled here. The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has upheld a landmark ruling that established rape as a war crime, rejecting an appeal by a Bosnian Croat commander convicted of watching as a subordinate tortured and raped a female prisoner. But lately sales at Pakistan's only brewery have fallen badly.
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