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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...
...will have to return to establish a permanent presence in the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 war. He and his colleagues will have to construct a functioning government on the first bits of occupied land handed back for Palestinian self-rule. In the teeming and poverty-ridden Gaza Strip and the tiny West Bank enclave of Jericho, the P.L.O. must prove that it can make a success of governance. If that goes well, Israel has promised to hand over the whole of the occupied West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, to Palestinian administration. But if Arafat and his comrades...
...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...