Word: gaza
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...will be posted on the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan to the West Bank -- that negotiators set aside for top- level deliberation. The day after the meeting, May 4, they were scheduled to sign an accord laying out the terms by which the P.L.O. will take charge of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank area around Jericho, at long last commencing an experiment in self-government that eventually is to encompass the whole of the West Bank. For the P.L.O., testing time has arrived. By week's end the organization should have begun exercising power, though limited...
...keeping with the Bucharest principle, Israel bowed to several P.L.O. demands aimed at giving the autonomy authority at least some of the trappings of statehood. The Gaza Strip will have its own international dialing code, no longer sharing Israel's 972 exchange, and the Palestinian authority will be empowered to issue passports to residents of the two enclaves. In return, the P.L.O. accepted a three-mile limitation on territorial waters off the Gaza Strip and gave Israel air rights over the self-rule zones...
Visible change should come to the territories within 24 hours of the signing ceremony in Cairo, when 1,000 Palestinian policemen are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as Israeli troops pull out. An additional 8,000 police will gradually be deployed. The P.L.O. is expected to make great fanfare out of the arrival of the first police in order to stir up public enthusiasm for self-rule. Spirits have been soured by the slow-moving negotiations as well as by tight restrictions locking out Palestinians who work in Israel, imposed after 13 Israelis died in suicide...
...reach an agreement by the end of the year. With that in mind, American and Israeli officials began discussing what security assistance Washington might provide its ally to compensate for loss of the strategic Heights. That was a good sign that a resolution on the Golan, as with the Gaza Strip and West Bank, was moving from the hypothetical to the real...
MIDDLE EAST: Peace Postponed in Gaza...