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...first Arab-Israeli talks since the massacre, the political adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met with p.l.o. chief Yasser Arafat in Cairo. The meeting was described as "a starting point" in which both sides "explained their positions and went home...
Only 48 hours before the Kiryat Arba settler pulled the trigger on his Galil assault rifle, P.L.O. negotiator Nabil Shaath and Israeli Major General Amnon Shahak had reached agreement in Cairo on specific steps to carry out the scheduled withdrawal of Israel's military forces from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. On March 11, according to their plan, Israel would release 3,000 Palestinian prisoners. On March 17, troops would begin to pull out of the Gaza Strip and Jericho. By April 12, one day before the original deadline set last September, the Israeli withdrawal...
...James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...boasts an advantage that Nerval or Flaubert could never attain: he is an Arab. He understands what makes Damascenes tick, and embues his account with a wealth of genuine detail that French Orientalists could only dream of (when they weren't dreaming about those slave-girls they bought in Cairo). At the same time, he knows his surroundings well enough to misrepresent them subtly: Damascus appears slightly trated up for the Western reader, slightly more quaint and foreign than it actually is. A sly native salesmanship pervades the book, turning everyday Syrian banalities into a world of mystery and intrigue...
Within hours of hearing about the massacre, Clinton asked the P.L.O. and the Israeli government to move to Washington the talks they had been conducting over the past five months in Paris, Cairo and the Egyptian resort town of Taba. He proposed the two sides keep their negotiators in the U.S. capital until they get not just an agreement to agree or an agreement in principle, but an i's-dotted, t's-crossed accord. Said the President: "We must prevent them ((fanatic extremists)) from extinguishing the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people for a life of peaceful existence...