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...Christopher, visibly tired after hours of last-minute, back-to-back meetings with Rabin in Jerusalem and Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister, who is travelling with Christopher, says the hitch -- concerning the security arrangements for a possible Israeli withdrawal from the disputed Golan Heights -- arose from cold feet and domestic qualms about peace in both countries. "When you get involved in these issues of such vital national security, every phrase gets dissected," McAllister says...
...could achieve nuclear capability at any time. The United States is "very much concerned about the potential that Iran might become a nuclear power," Perry told reporters during a two-day meeting in Jerusalem. "We do not consider that an acceptable development." Perry, who spent today surveying the disputed Golan Heights as a prelude to a possible Israeli-Syrian peace agreement, said that while he believed it would probably take Iran up to 15 years to produce its own nuclear device, it might be able to buy a warhead on the black market now. Concerns over Iran's intentions were...
...public declaration denouncing terrorism, but merely received a promise from Assad that he'd think about it. The Secretary then shuttled to Jerusalem, where Israeli leaders blamed Syria for the deadlocked peace talks and expressed little hope that Christopher's trip would jar loose an impasse over the disputed Golan Heights. (Also today, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Shalikashvili that Israel would need U.S. troops in the territory to enforce any future treaties with Syria.) While the Clinton Administration has been hinting a treaty might surface soon, TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons says...
Clinton Offers Golan Troops...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Washington on a two-day visit, got some good news from President Clinton, who said he would seek to include U.S. troops in any peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. The chairman- presumptive of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Jesse Helms, had earlier raised questions about the wisdom of such a U.S. mission and called the Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations a "fraud...