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...Camp David" was once a code word for Mideast peace breakthroughs, and President Clinton may be hoping that its aura rubs off on Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak when he hosts a make-or-break summit there next week. But while the historic 1977 meeting between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin may have produced an Israeli-Egyptian peace deal that became the crowning achievement of the Carter administration, President Clinton's confab looks like little more than a last-minute Hail Mary pass...
...still the world's richest person 20. Los __, where hard drives seem to come and go 22. Gig components 25. One of the five Iroquois nations 28. They've got "no good explanation" for soaring 47-Down prices in the Midwest 29. Party that could bring down Barak's government 32. Some physicians are pressing this org. to seek a moratorium on capital punishment 33. Like the Kalahari 34. Part of R.S.V.P. 35. Plaza Hotel imp 37. Reagan Treasury Secretary 39. Suit materials 43. Adlai's '56 running mate 46. "That's the __ of my worries" 47. Long-jawed swimmers...
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to do the right thing and withdraw troops from southern Lebanon to within Israel's recognized borders, he warned that the Lebanese militia Hizballah would intensify its attacks and make it look as if it had won a war, but this possibility did not deter Barak from carrying out his plan. Nevertheless, almost all the news media interpreted the withdrawal as a defeat for Israel and did not give a balanced view. With Israel located in a region that is the focal point of the three major religions, I guess Barak is damned...
When one plays with fire, one should expect to get burned. What Barak did in pulling out of Lebanon was to show not courage but foolishness. GARY SCHWARTZ Fort...
...talk about. So I think there's progress in that regard. They are really dealing with the hardest issues. The President asked me to go [to the Middle East] to determine whether there's a sufficient basis for going forward with the summit [with Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat] or whether we have to keep working. I'm going to be looking at narrowing the gaps...