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Secretary of State Warren Christopher today set out for Cairo to begin a five-nation drive to get Mideast peace talks back on track. Christopher is flying overnight to Cairo and is slated to continue to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan, plus a Gaza visit with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Since Christopher last touched down in the region three months ago, the peace process has gotten bogged down by Israel's quarreling with the Palestinians, Syria and Egypt, while Israel's tentative peace deal with Jordan hit a financial snag...
...conscientious objector, Mendelsohn became involved with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker Service organization. At that time, he dealt with the Soviet-American conflict, specifically with issues of disarmament. In 1968, a problem arose in a refugee camp in Gaza. The American Friends Service Committee asked Mendelsohn to swing by and help out; he has been involved with the Middle East ever since...
Remember Syria? Secretary of State Warren Christopher said today that he'll return to Damascus in early March to press the last peace holdout to revive its talks with Israel. Also on the agenda are stops in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Gaza, where Christopher will huddle with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat...
Meeting at a joint Israeli-p.l.o. command post inside the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and p.l.o. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin continued to insist that Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to allow Palestinians with jobs in Israel to re-enter the country in stages, ending a bitter standoff with the PLO. After meeting with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Rabin said he would gradually lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and permit 15,000 Palestinian workers to return to their jobs next week. Arafat, in turn, set up a special military court to try suspected anti-Israel militants. He also arrested eight supporters of Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for a Jan. 22 bombing that killed 21 Israelis and prompted...