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...response to continuing violence in the occupied territories, Israel moved thousands of soldiers into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The action was taken five days before Israels Dec. 13 deadline to begin withdrawing troops from Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho. Israel and the P.L.O. were seeking to prevent a delay in the withdrawal...
...much as their fanatical counterparts on the Palestinian side to threaten the peace process. For two groups who can't work together on anything else, their collaboration at keeping violence alive has been remarkably successful: five days before Israel was scheduled to begin pulling its forces out of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was forced to pour 5,000 more soldiers into the region to control the cycle of murder and reprisal that has killed 41 Palestinians and 14 Israelis since the signing of the Sept. 13 pact...
...important item was reportedly settled last week: the Palestinian National Authority, the board that will govern the Gaza Strip and Jericho until elections are held next year, is to consist of 20 members, 10 from the P.L.O. executive committee in Tunis and 10 from the occupied territories. Arafat will be chairman, but the other members have not been selected, and Tunis is filled with job seekers. Arafat also needs to fold in the leaders who have emerged in the territories, people like Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi...
Since rapid economic improvement is essential to winning broad popular support for the new Palestinian authority, the P.L.O.'s economic planners have drafted 2,500 projects ranging from a telecommunications system in Jericho to a $150 million airport in Gaza. Initial priority will be given to establishing an infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, which now lacks even the most basic services. Many West Bank Arabs fear that the endemic corruption of the P.L.O. will eat up large amounts of investment money. To reassure them, Arafat has agreed to call in an independent auditing firm to monitor spending...
...most urgent order of business is establishing the Palestinian police force that is to take over most responsibility for security in the two areas. The first 22 Palestinian policemen crossed the border from Egypt to the Gaza Strip last month, and training of a 2,500-man contingent is under way in Jordan and Egypt. As many as 8,000 from the territories, including members of the Fatah Hawks, will make up the backbone of the force, which will be equipped with small arms and armored personnel carriers. The other 7,000 would come from the ranks of P.L.O. guerrillas...