Word: arafats
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...State Warren Christopher said today that he'll return to Damascus in early March to press the last peace holdout to revive its talks with Israel. Also on the agenda are stops in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Gaza, where Christopher will huddle with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat...
Meeting at a joint Israeli-p.l.o. command post inside the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and p.l.o. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin continued to insist that Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to allow Palestinians with jobs in Israel to re-enter the country in stages, ending a bitter standoff with the PLO. After meeting with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Rabin said he would gradually lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and permit 15,000 Palestinian workers to return to their jobs next week. Arafat, in turn, set up a special military court to try suspected anti-Israel militants. He also arrested eight supporters of Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for a Jan. 22 bombing that killed 21 Israelis and prompted...
...lance journalist Jennifer Gould, 27, who interviewed him on the cruise, he was rambling and revealing. Their conversations appear in Playboy magazine's March edition. Topics ranged from Russia (``We need democracy. But some violence is required.'') to Clinton (``one of the founders of the decline of America'') and Arafat (``I don't like his clothes''). Zhirinovsky talked of his past sexual experiences with women and of his present voyeurism. He was angry when Gould and her young female translator refused to undress for him and his bodyguards. ``I wanted to break through his facade,'' says Gould. ``I got more...
...Gaza and Israeli promises to pull back its troops from the region and allow Palestinian elections. After the talks concluded on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the concessions "will contribute significantly" to a Thursday summit between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. But despite a personal appeal from President Clinton, Israel refused to end at once a 23-day closure of the Gaza border that aims to contain terrorists. Hundreds of Palestinians marched through Gaza City today in protest, saying the travel ban has kept them from their jobs in Israel...