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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...
From the minarets of Gaza City mosques last week, Hamas sheiks praised the "heroic" suicide bomber of Afula. Boys pelted Israeli military headquarters in Gaza City with stones, then waited for the inevitable rubber bullets. A donkey carcass lay rotting by the side of the road in Jabalia camp. Small boys dragged tires to construct a barricade, filling the air with the acrid smell of burning rubber. A few miles away, the police building stood empty, the morning's expectation of handshakes and smiles all but forgotten...
MIDDLE EAST: Peace Postponed in Gaza...