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...cutbacks and reductions in city services. Potentially most painful, however, was his request that the Federal Government take on $267 million in city Medicaid costs, and consider paying for even more services in the future. The appeal could reopen the question of how much home rule Congress should accord the District...
...negotiations are caught in a vicious circle. For the Palestinians, the key issue is what was promised in the 1993 accord: moving Israeli troops out of West Bank towns and opening the way for Palestinian elections. Arafat told Rabin that his mandate must be extended throughout the territories. But Rabin is in no mood to withdraw the army from areas where Israeli settlers need protection...
With all channels blocked in the Mideast, the best opportunity to salvage the peace accord may arrive Sunday in Washington, where a senior PLO adviser and foreign ministers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt are scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A senior U.S. official today toldTIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisterthat the only solution to the crisis may lie in boosting the economy of the Gaza Strip -- steering economic aid around Arafat's ineffective government and directly to his restive people...
...Yearbook's Executive Board has roughly 10 people on it, accord-ing to Edwin...
...Rabin doesn't want to see my face, but I don't want to see his either, nor the faces of the settlers and soldiers.'' Under the 1993 agreement, Israeli settlements are to remain in place during the interim phase, with their ultimate fate determined by the final-status accord. In the next stage, Israel is supposed to move its soldiers out of Arab-populated areas of the West Bank to allow Arafat's administration to take charge. But the Israelis say that with Arab violence unabated, the army must remain in many of those areas in order to ensure...