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...probably knew it before I came here. But I think a President needs a little time to set forth the big framework of things to the people, which I was able to do on Feb. 17 ((in the Joint Address to Congress)), with good results I think, but it's hard. I wasn't able to sustain it so well...
...world nurtured for 45 years on a diet of hate and death in the arid lands of Israelis and Arabs. This, more than the Declaration of Principles, was the affirmation of a new era that watchers could believe. The parchment signed out on the lawn was a framework for interim Palestinian self- government, and it was for the archives, a document meant to bind Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to further constructive deliberation. It was the handshake between the Israeli Prime Minister and the chairman of the P.L.O. that mattered. Men, not papers, make peace...
...Israel-P.L.O. agreement spread quickly throughout the region. On his way home from the signing ceremony, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin stopped off in Morocco for an unprecedented meeting with King Hassan II; diplomatic relations may follow. Jordan and Israel signed an agreement laying out the framework for their own peace discussions. But Rabin lambasted Syria for allowing anti-Israel guerrillas to continue to operate in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip three Israeli soldiers were ambushed and killed and a Palestinian blew himself up in a botched attack on an Israeli police station...
...those who support the Oslo agreement, even if halfheartedly, the new Declaration of Principles provides the only ladder available to climb out of a status quo both sides have been finding more and more intolerable. The plan comes in two parts: first, a framework for interim Palestinian self-rule on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and second, the agreement, still being negotiated, on mutual recognition and an end to the warfare between Israel and the P.L.O...
...because of the economic promise of NAFTA, Mexico has embarked on a series of environmental reforms and policy initiatives. One percent of its GNP is now devoted to expenditures for environmental protection. Mexico is working on expanding the extant institutional framework and expanding the legislative regulatory framework, beyond 1983's La Paz Agreement for border improvement and 1990's Draft Integrated Border Plan, for more substantive agreements...