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...Palestinian Authority cabinet meeting convened on Wednesday by Yasser Arafat endorsed a proposal floated earlier this week by Israeli defense minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer for Israel to begin pulling out of Gaza if the PA undertakes to curb terrorism. If reformed PA security structures show themselves willing and able to stop attacks on Israelis, the Gaza would be emulated in other West Bank cities. The Palestinian leadership, in giving qualified support to the proposal, proclaimed it as a basis for realizing their demand that Israel withdraw to its September 2000 positions, before the outbreak of the current intifada...
...China embarked on economic modernization in the '70s. "The fact that they are tackling the issue and starting to make these changes is significant," says David Morton, head of the World Food Program in Pyongyang. Skeptics suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may be adjusting prices to curb the flourishing black market. A more plausible explanation: persistent food shortages and the need to import fertilizer, fuel and other commodities make it imperative that North Korea develop a functioning economy. The hermit country seems at last to be joining the real world...
INDIA Elections Amid Bloodshed India's Election Commission announced that voting for seats in Kashmir's state assembly would start next month despite continuing bloodshed. India accused Pakistan of not doing enough to curb Islamic militancy after four suspected militants and one Indian army officer died in a gun battle in Rajouri in Indian-administered Kashmir. At least 69 people?Indian security forces, Kashmir militants and civilians?died across Indian Kashmir. And police remained on high alert as 100,000 Hindu pilgrims, above, amassed in the state...
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...Combined pressure from the West and the Arab world has made clear to the Palestinian Authority that the key to its survival now lies in reestablishing its ability to curb terror attacks. That's pushed the PA into new talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad - a conversation in which all sides are aware that the alternative will be a potentially disastrous confrontation between Arafat's Authority and the radical Islamists. The fact that the Saudis have joined in pushing publicly for such a truce increases the political pressure on Hamas, which wants to avoid appearing at odds with the Arab...