Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggled to settle their differences over security and border issues by Dec. 13, Rabin warned that meeting the deadline "looks difficult." Arafat, too, worried that the violence "could threaten the peace process." But, the P.L.O. chairman told TIME, "the process will go forward in spite of everything." Even if the beginning of Israeli troop withdrawal slips past the scheduled day, the hour when authority will be transferred into Palestinian hands is fast approaching. The most critical question now is whether Arafat and the Palestinians are ready to rule themselves...
...Israeli-Palestinian relations looks depressingly like the last one, filled with smoke and flame and gunshots. The agreement Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat sealed with a handshake on the White House lawn last September is supposed to change that. Next week Palestinians are to begin an experiment with self-government, and Israeli troops are scheduled to start withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area on the West Bank...
...vice president said those who doubt the possibility for change should consider that "A decade ago, who would have thought that the Berlin Wall would have fallen? That Nelson Mandela would be free? That Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat would shake hands on the White House lawn...
...ranks of miniature soldiers marched across the marble mantel. Clinton asked for a masculine, library-like room, and, says Hockersmith, loves the deep red simulated-leather wallpaper, massive, specially designed bookcases and his easy chair and ottoman from the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Nine major treaties -- most recently the Arafat-Rabin agreement of last September -- were signed on the circa-1867 table that serves as his desk...
Since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat sealed their historic peace agreement on Sept. 13, hardly a week has gone by without a fatal clash between Palestinians and Israelis. The depressing chronology...