Word: gaza
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Their talk was about peace and, just as important, about prosperity. Diplomats are discovering that in ending the estrangement between Arabs and Israelis, money must talk as much as they do. As if to underscore that point, hundreds of Palestinians rioted on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel last week in a skirmish between Israeli soldiers and P.L.O. policemen that left two Palestinians dead. The reason for the disturbance: the Palestinians, 20,000 of whom travel to Israel daily for work, were fed up with long lines at the checkpoint into Israel and with the Israeli quotas that...
Yasser Arafat has got to change the P.L.O.'s loose accounting style before edgy international donors will agree to deliver $2.4 billion to help get his new Palestinian state off the ground. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who met Arafat in Gaza City today in the highest-level U.S.-Palestinian meeting there since self-rule began, told the P.L.O. chairman he'd have to provide the World Bank and other groups up-front paperwork on how the money would be spent. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister, traveling with Christopher, says Arafat wants it in a slush fund to continue...
...incapable of transforming himself from guerrilla chief to government executive, which he must do if he is to create the new state they regard as the inevitable outcome of the Palestinian struggle. They are worried that if he cannot make that transition, the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza will rebel against his authoritarian style. "If he tries to be a dictator, he will be thrown out," says a member of the P.L.O. executive committee. "Our people will not accept...
Though Arafat's arrival in the Gaza Strip marked another step toward the beginning of Palestinian self-rule, much remains to be done. Public security was successfully handed over to Palestinian security forces in May. But civilian administration of Gaza and Jericho -- in such matters as education, health, taxation, postal service -- has remained in limbo. Arafat has named 18 of the 24 members of the Palestinian Authority that will administer the areas until elections are held, but they have established no real control yet. Hours before Arafat's appearance last week, Haidar Abdel-Shafi, a former Palestinian negotiator, said...
...P.L.O. leader visits Gaza to ratify Palestinian self-rule...