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...Yasser Arafat. The talks, whose importance an Arafat spokesman minimized today, began after PLO police opened fire on Hamas activists in Gaza Nov. 18, killing 15 people. The talks' failure was another setback in Arafat's efforts to gain a grip on Palestinians who oppose the Israeli peace accord. The threats -- made during a Gaza City rally today where 10,000 Hamas supporters gathered to commemorate the group's 1987 founding -- put security forces throughout Israel and the occupied territories on alert...
European Union leaders, meanwhile, convened their own summit in Essen, Germany, to announce plans to open their trading bloc gradually to the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. The move mirrors events on the other side of the Atlantic: If the all-American trade accord goes through, the U.S. is expected to depend far more on South America than on Europe or Japan in the next century...
President Clinton signed the historic General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs today, launching U.S. entry into a 123-nation trade accord to slash import tariffs here and abroad. But he did so over vehement protests from critics who say GATT will undermine American labor by ending penalties against the products of low-wage workers from other countries. "Hey, Bill! You're selling out!" a man with a megaphone outside the Organization of American States shouted as Clinton arrived for the ceremony. Clinton's reply to the public: "We must never run away from the world." The treaty cuts global tariffs...
...implementation of the nuclear agreement on the table, the first-ever delegation of North Korean officials to enter the U.S. arrived in Washington today to discuss the opening of diplomatic offices in each other's capitals. Even though congressional Republicans (and a few Democrats) are still grousing that the accord was a giveaway, the other side now seems effusive: "The trend toward a full-scale improvement in North Korea-U.S. relations will never be reversed." Pyongyang Radio said...
...worried that recent terrorist acts and protests have fatally weakened PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's grip on his people, began a major, three-day policy debate over whether they can pull their troops from the West Bank before Palestinian elections -- a key part of the historic 1993 Mideast peace accord. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that Israel had "no interest in dragging things out" but effectively no-commented on whether Israel would try to leave some troops in Palestinian areas after the elections, most likely this month. Arafat today instructed the negotiators who'll represent him when autonomy talks...