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...break the deadlock is breaking up the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Palestinian security measures into a series of reciprocal phases. That would delay final status negotiations until both sides? compliance with their undertakings restores a measure of mutual trust, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer...
WASHINGTON: When he visits the White House Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu can expect to get an earful on his government's proposed limited and conditional withdrawal from the West Bank. "Prospects for the meeting are pretty grim," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "All the U.S. can hope for is to stop the process going completely off the rails by keeping the two sides talking about certain practical areas, and wait for Netanyahu's government to collapse...
...will the Palestinians and Israel's Arab neighbors have the patience to wait out Netanyahu's demise? "Well, it's a very risky strategy," says Fischer. "Already the indications from Arafat are that the Intifada uprising could be revived if there's no progress in the peace process, and that would create a volatile situation throughout the region." The Palestinians have implored President Clinton to use some of Washington's power over Israel to force Netanyahu to go along with the peace process, but Clinton's record suggests he regards sweating Israel as an unacceptable domestic political risk. Which probably...
...foresight didn't save him. On Feb. 22, 1995, Fischer, 29, and Cadet Mark Dostal, 20, were killed when their T-3 corkscrewed into the ground about 50 miles east of the academy. Dostal, of Moraga, Calif., was a junior at the academy, where he had racked up scholastic and athletic honors. "Mark wanted to fly from the time he was a little boy," says his mother Shirley. "He thought his best chance to fly was to go to the academy." He had spent 11 hours learning...
...Force investigation concluded that Dostal put the plane into a spin and that Fischer fumbled the recovery because the Air Force had not adequately trained him. The crash report said the engine was running while the plane plunged a mile in 30 sec., in 17 ever tightening spirals, into a snow-covered pasture. Yet witnesses told investigators the plane was silent as it came down. The Air Force grounded the T-3s for a week. And when they resumed flying, spins were banned...