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...Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat started their Camp David with a jocular scuffle to be last into the room with President Clinton; now they're jockeying to be the first to leave in a huff. After all, if you can't bring home a peace deal, then a little righteous indignation helps you look tough back home in the district. Leaks from the delegations suggest Arafat has twice gestured toward the door, ordering his aides to pack their bags on Saturday night and trying to phone U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan early Tuesday to tell him the talks had failed...
...Ehud Barak is prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to do just that. He is ready to give the Palestinians virtually all of the West Bank, to surrender a large measure of control over Jerusalem, and to recognize a Palestinian state bordering Jordan and Egypt (which means that the perennial Israeli demand for a demilitarized Palestinian state evaporates: it will be impossible to monitor the inflow of weapons into Palestine...
...deal in sight. And that may be as much a relief for the U.S. Congress as it could be for both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak. The hints and murmurs emanating out of Camp David suggest there's unlikely to be a peace agreement before President Clinton's scheduled departure for Tokyo Wednesday, and with the two sides notoriously unable to make any progress without him in the room, the White House may now be weighing whether there's any point in leaving them to talk among themselves. "More time will not make their decisions any easier," an unnamed senior...
...sleeping arrangements: Clinton, like Carter before him at Camp David I, is staying at the four-bedroom Aspen cottage. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is in Dogwood, Arafat is in Birch, and the delegations all dine together in Laurel. The place is so spread out that some of the participants tool around in golf carts. One Aha! revelation: in 1978, Anwar Sadat stayed in Dogwood, and Menachem Begin was in Birch. Everyone's pondering the significance of this switcheroo...
...lame ducks and an ailing autocrat isn't much of a recipe for a peace deal - and the odds are lengthening against an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough at Tuesday's Camp David summit. Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, joined President Clinton in the lame duck corner Sunday when his coalition collapsed following the walkout of three of his partners, forcing him to delay his departure for Washington Monday to face down a crucial no-confidence motion in parliament by a mere seven votes. But even before two religious parties and one representing Russian immigrants bolted in protest against Barak...