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...property." Given the flames' unpredictable behavior, providing a heat shield is often impossible, and even under good conditions it can require novel, high-risk tactics. "We are going into situations that, absent homes and property, we wouldn't be putting fire fighters into," says Frye. Now and then rugged cabin dwellers tell Frye they don't expect the Federal Government to defend their dwellings, but when the flames reach their door, Frye says, such proud individualists always change their tune...
Arafat angrily turned down the U.S. plan, demanding full sovereignty over all of East Jerusalem. At 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Clinton sent Tenet to Arafat's cabin to see if he could soften him up (the two bonded at previous summits). Tenet came back half an hour later. "It's ugly down there," he told Clinton. Arafat wouldn't budge...
...days at Camp David took on an odd life of their own. Dozens of golf carts zipped from cabin to cabin at the northern Maryland presidential retreat, with Israeli and Palestinian officials scrunched in them haggling with one another and dodging chipmunks darting across their paths. There were negotiations across tables, but just as much work got done over pinball machines at Hickory Lodge. With talks held practically round the clock, diplomats began to mark time by hours instead of days. And with clouds dumping rain almost every day, the Middle East guests--accustomed to dryer climates--complained that they...
...told the Israeli reporters traveling with him to be ready to take off in his plane by 8 p.m. Frustrated, Clinton decided to pack up too - and signaled to both men that he wasn't bluffing. By 10 p.m. Wednesday, he had his motorcade assembled outside his Camp David cabin to take him to Air Force One for the flight to Okinawa. He also had one of his spokesmen announce that "the summit has come to a conclusion without reaching an agreement." That jolted Arafat and Barak, who within an hour told Clinton they wanted to stay at Camp David...
...King boards the Royal Air Maroc 737 for his return to the capital. The cabin is bedecked in flowers and silk carpets. He slips quietly into Seat 2A and chats with flight attendants who offer tea, canapes and chocolates. Near the end of the one-hour flight, he reflects on his tour of the drought-stricken south. "These people need some moral support and some comfort," he says quietly as the plane banks over Rabat. "It is now time for authority to serve the people, and not for the people to serve authority...