Peace

Women In Black, Baltimore (WIBB) is sponsoring the sixth annual Peace Path 911, creating a path from the Inner Harbor through Baltimore to the Beltway from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event, which supports the group's goal of a world without violence and bloodshed, is free. Although participants may stand anywhere on Charles Street, the WIBB asks that people consult the standing diagram at peacepath911.com. Call 410-467-9114.

By a margin of nearly 53 percent to 47 percent, callers to SUNDIAL say the United States should keep pressure on Israel to stay at the table in the Mideast peace conference until a plan has been reached. The numbers were 255 in favor out of 483 calls, with the remaining 228 saying the United States should not pressure Israel."It's Your Call" represents a sampling of opinions from certain segments of the community, but it is not balanced demographically, as would be done in a scientific public opinion poll.

Paris. -- The great powers' ''peace ultimatum'' to the Bosnian combatants, announced last week in Geneva, has already provoked American criticisms that it abandons the moral principle that aggression and ethnic cleansing should not be rewarded.The elaborate plan for geographical and ethnic partition of Bosnia inside its existing state boundaries, issued by the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Russia, awards the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia a considerable part of the territory it has seized by force and purged of Muslims and Croats through terror.

With hard-working, talented players but no superstar, Peace-Able's team was truly greater than the sum of its parts. The No. 3 Engineers used that team approach to go undefeated until the state semifinal and post the best record in school history (23-1). She preached defense, and Poly allowed just 27.95 points per game - fewer than any other team in the state tournament. They weren't fancy, but they excelled at the basics, winning the Baltimore City Division I championship and the Class 4A North regional title before falling to eventual state champion Gaithersburg, 47-30.

Commentator Robert Pines could not have been more wrong in his statement that East Jerusalem was "annexed" by Israel in 1967 ("U.S. must recognize Israel's capital," Aug. 15). The facts are that Israel started a war in 1967 in order to steal Palestinian lands in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The U.S. should demand a just Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as the capital of the new Palestinian state. It is time for the U.S. to end all financial, military and political aid to Israel and become an honest broker for peace in the Middle East.

What is the world coming to when a parent who is devastated by the loss of a child cannot bury that child in peaceful manner without worrying about protestors whose legal bills he now has been ordered to pay? ("Anger over bill to Marine's dad," March 31.) This family and every other family should have the right to bury their loved ones in peace. This group crashed the son's funeral and spat out hateful things to further devastate an already grieving family, and now that family has to pay for suing them.

For all those who believe The Sun's position on Palestinian statehood has merit, the following is offered for consideration ("Pressure on Israel to negotiate," Nov. 30). The Palestinian statehood that they are seeking now, they could have had in 1948 with an internationalized Jerusalem if not for the Arab world's belligerence in and out of the United Nations to this very day. The territory they lost to the Israelis was a direct result of the many attacks and provocations the Arab world initiated and against which the Israelis defended themselves successfully.

On February 21, 2008, ANNIE PEACE, loving mother of Eugene Richardson. Friends may call at the family owned March Funeral Home West Inc

On April 10, 2008, MARGURITE ESTELLE. Friends may visit the family owned

WASHINGTON and Moscow should relentlessly continue theirjoint peace efforts regardless of any difficulties created by Israel. Efforts to find a suitable formula to settle the Middle East crisis have entered into a stage which could be described as more than serious. These efforts have gained additional momentum by the entry of the Soviet Union into the arena of the search for a peaceful solution. . . .Washington and Moscow, who are responsible for peace and security in the world, should not slacken their peace attempts.