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JERUSALEM: Undaunted by Sunday's fruitless pre-dawn meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, U.S. Middle Eastern envoy Dennis Ross spent Monday prodding the two leaders to meet again to resolve the impasse over a Hebron deal. According to an agreement signed in 1995, Israel was supposed to pull troops out of Hebron, the last occupied town in the West Bank, by March 1996. But Netanyahu has delayed the troop removal, saying the 500 Jewish settlers living in Hebron still need protection from Palestinians. While Israel says it remains committed to an eventual...
...land near the West Bank settlement of Beit El. They were later joined by some 200 more swaying, praying settlers, who promised to build a new settlement on the site. Palestinian farmers say Artis Hill belongs to them. As both sides struggle to resolve the conflict, Arafat and U.S. envoy Dennis Ross must now deal with a somewhat weakened Israeli leader who is looking over his shoulder to gauge his support at home...
JERUSALEM: Despite efforts of U.S. Mideast special envoy Dennis Ross, a meeting today between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat ended without a resolution on Hebron. While the three-hour talk was "extremely productive," according to Ross, the two leaders could not agree on a plan for pulling out troops from the West Bank city. Other issues of contention: joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols, the right of "hot pursuit" for Israeli police into Palestinian territory, and a timetable for promised Israeli withdrawals from more rural areas of the West Bank. Israel was scheduled to remove soldiers from Hebron in March...
With Henry Cisneros and Federico Pena leaving the Cabinet, Clinton was under pressure to name a Hispanic to a top job. Now Richardson will have to give up the derring-do of his foreign escapades for the more refined cocktail diplomacy of a United Nations envoy. But the U.N. post could well be a launching point for the final adventure Richardson has always craved--being Governor of New Mexico...
...Chechen fighting ebbed, the Kremlin war continued. On Friday, Lebed announced he would meet with his boss to settle things. Yeltsin initially declined to see his envoy or endorse his blueprint for peace. But later, he reportedly told Lebed by telephone that he generally approved of his initial efforts to end the war and authorized him to hold talks with Chechen rebel leaders on a political accord that would keep Chechnya within the Russian Federation. Lebed headed back to Chechnya over the weekend to work out such a settlement...