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...that he'd made an agreement to "some signs of components of peace" with Syria, and Israeli officials said Egypt would join in the efforts to complete the Mideast peace circle. Rabin offered no details and said there were still "huge gaps" between his government and Syrian President Hafez Assad over ending nearly half a century of conflict. On Sunday, Rabin will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who shuttled to Syria last week. Days later, Rabin will confer with Secretary of State Warren Christopher in an attempt to break the deadlock...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher headed home today after a week of trying to accelerate the peace process in the Middle East, having failed to jump-start negotiations between Israel and Syria. After a three-hour meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, Christopher said the two Mideast countries are still deadlocked over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Assad, more vaguely, said he was open to "discuss steps" that might help advance Christoper's aims when the American returns there in early August...
...terrorist cells, though it's not clear that they need any more money for general consumption. Helping the Palestinians could also be an important step in pressuring Syria to maintain peaceful relations with Israel. The Syrians are also in territorial negotiations with the Israelis, though Prime Minister Hafez el-Assad has always seemed more amenable to another...
...Israelis and Palestinians trudge toward accommodation, hope for progress shone on another front as well. Visiting Syria last weekend, Christopher delivered to President Hafez Assad a step-by-step Israeli proposal for withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for normal relations between the two states. Israel, which says the extent of its withdrawal will depend on the depth of peace with Syria, would like to stretch the process out for seven to 10 years...
According to U.S. diplomats, Assad wants to reach an agreement by the end of the year. With that in mind, American and Israeli officials began discussing what security assistance Washington might provide its ally to compensate for loss of the strategic Heights. That was a good sign that a resolution on the Golan, as with the Gaza Strip and West Bank, was moving from the hypothetical to the real...