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Last week, at a limousine-clogged U.N. Millennium Summit on Manhattan's East Side, Bill Clinton pleaded with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak to show more bend in the positions that divide them on a peace accord. The opportunity for a peace accord "is fleeting and about to pass," Clinton worried. But after rounds with both men in a regal 35th-floor suite of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the President came up empty-handed. "I have no breakthroughs to report," Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart said after the two separate meetings...
First thing to note, of course, is that the prime minister's proposal comes just three weeks before the September 13 settlement deadline established by PLO chairman Yasir Arafat, who has pledged to unilaterally proclaim a Palestinian state if an accord is not reached with Israel by that date. The failure of last month's peace talks at Camp David stung both Barak and Arafat, and left many doubtful that an agreement could ever be reached. Now Barak appears to be signaling that Israel could be adopting a more secular tone, in the hope that the Palestinians will offer equitable...
...rain down plagues at the first sign of moral turpitude. Conventional political wisdom may suggest that picking a religious Jew would have cost Gore among undecided voters in the Bible Belt, but that's not necessarily the case. These are End Times, after all, and Christian prophesies that accord a major role to the Jews in the apocalyptic buildup that they believe will precede the Second Coming of Christ have prompted an unprecedented enthusiasm for Israel and Jews among many conservative evangelical Christians. That's hardly going to carry the South for Gore, but projecting the morally conservative image hinted...
...knew whether it would get uglier. Arafat has threatened to declare unilaterally a Palestinian state if no accord is reached by Sept. 13, but so far Israeli and Palestinian streets have been calm. Though the summit collapsed, it did force the two sides to negotiate on once taboo subjects, such as who owns the holy city. Says Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi: "Files are now open that were hitherto closed." But it will take more courage still for peace...
...disburse money from the International Monetary Fund in the absence of any evidence of serious change. The curious privatization methods were hailed as economic liberalization; the looting of the country's assets by powerful people either went unnoticed or was ignored. The realities in Russia simply did not accord with the administration's script about Russian economic reform...