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With the referee staying out of the ring, the Palestinians may have no choice but to accept Israel?s timetable for implementing the Wye land-for-peace accord. Negotiators from the two sides met Wednesday to finalize a timetable for completing Israeli withdrawal from the 13.1 percent of the West Bank envisaged by Wye, after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright postponed her visit to the region ? at Israel?s request. "Naturally the Palestinians were very unhappy about Albright?s decision, because they wanted her to come and get in the middle," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While...
...solicitation afterward. A member of a nondenominational church who stopped attending services three years ago because she works on Sundays, she says the book has provided enlightenment. "You slip," she says, "and it puts you back on track." That the foundation's work against abortion may not be in accord with her own "mixed views" is immaterial. "What they gave me is good," she says. "It stands on its own right...
...around the Golan and access to intelligence from a monitoring station there. At the same time, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are famously immune to deadlines. The lives of the two peoples have overlapped too long to be untangled easily. What's more, a deal on one front may make an accord on another harder to sell to concession-weary Israelis. That should all be plenty to keep Barak wide awake...
...heir, President B.J. Habibie, and his Golkar party potentially have sufficient support in the electoral assembly -- due to set-asides for the military and regional representatives -- to block Megawati?s accession. Despite her call for Suharto to be prosecuted for abuses of power, there?s unlikely to be an accord on her taking the presidency unless she gives some guarantee of immunity to the masters of the old order. So, Megawati?s public insistence on being given the presidency either reflects an emerging consensus for stability -? or the opening salvo of another season of political turmoil...
...positive. "The atmosphere in the meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land transfers required by the Wye accord, the Palestinian leader insisted Wednesday that his answer was no and that full implementation of Wye was essential to restart the process...