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Some officials on both sides said they were encouraged by the procedural push. This week Israel and the Palestinians are to reopen their talks in Cairo, while Arafat and Rabin are to meet at a border crossing on the Gaza Strip. Then on Feb. 12, the summit group's foreign ministers will convene in Washington to move ahead on economic and security measures...
Weekend talks among Mideast foreign ministers in Washington, D.C. produced joint concessions in the stalled Israel-PLO peace talks, including a Palestinian pledge to root out terrorists in Gaza and Israeli promises to pull back its troops from the region and allow Palestinian elections. After the talks concluded on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the concessions "will contribute significantly" to a Thursday summit between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. But despite a personal appeal from President Clinton, Israel refused to end at once a 23-day closure of the Gaza border that...
...Washington, where a senior PLO adviser and foreign ministers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt are scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A senior U.S. official today toldTIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisterthat the only solution to the crisis may lie in boosting the economy of the Gaza Strip -- steering economic aid around Arafat's ineffective government and directly to his restive people...
...that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast for attacks that killed dozens of people, including 1985 assaults on passenger terminals at the Rome and Vienna airports in which 17 people died...
...Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat failed to agree on any way to expand Palestinian authority without endangering Israeli security. After 2 1/2 hours of talks, a visibly angry Arafat lashed out at Rabin's refusal to lift a 19-day closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, imposed after militant Islamic Jihad bombers killed 21 Israelis last month. "If there is an Israeli wish for political separation, then we welcome it. But we will not welcome that they lock us in Gaza and the West Bank and hold the keys to the big prison." But Rabin...