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...Palestinian leaders meeting since July 11 under the auspices of President Clinton at Camp David in Maryland's secluded Catoctin Mountains. The secret to peace in the Middle East is easy to find--it's scribbled on the loose-leaf paper of a black, flexible-plastic three-ring binder, just like the kind you used in high school. The binder belongs to Dennis Ross...
...almost 12 years, Ross has been writing notes and ideas on the Middle East into that binder, first as head of the policy-planning staff in the Bush Administration's State Department and for the past eight years as the Clinton Administration's special Middle East coordinator. It contains secrets that he and maybe one or two other people know, things like confidential Israeli and Palestinian negotiating positions, areas where they might concede, areas where they swear they won't. Occasionally he drafts handwritten memos in it to the Secretary of State or the President. In that binder are ideas...
...binder and its owner are at the center of the action this week as President Clinton attempts to clinch a deal on peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The summit is a high-stakes attempt by the departing American President to force a "full, fair and final" settlement of such explosive issues as the return of Palestinian refugees, boundaries of a Palestinian state and control of Jerusalem--in short, all the issues dividing the two sides. Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight...
...It’s in the Bag: Tuesday/Thursday Binder, Monday/ Wednesday/Friday Binder, Foreign Cultures sourcebook, Walkman, workout clothes, pencils-pens-spare change-Harvard ID card (all in appropriate compartments), two apples, plastic silverware set, checkbook, overdue library books, copy of Grisholm’s latest novel, peanut butter crackers from seventh grade, bottle of Motrin...
...It’s in the (Big) Bag: Chem 5 textbook and lab manual, Fly-By lunch, slant-ring binder, Harvard planner, miniature stapler, emergency phone numbers...