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...Crimson printed a pair of letters to the editor regarding the recent incident in which a former Israeli military police officer, Noam Friedman, opened fire on Arab shoppers in the marketplace of Hebron. Fortunately, Friedman did not succeed in taking any innocent lives; he was promptly arrested by Israeli military authorities and will likely be charged with assault and attempted murder...
...Palestinian cabinet, approval was easy. A final vote count was not made available, but according to Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Cabinet authorized the agreement by a large majority. Under the agreement, Israel is to give the Palestinians control of 80 percent of the Biblical city of Hebron within days. Israel also agreed to roll back its presence in the West Bank in three stages - beginning in six weeks and ending in August 1998. Ross said the agreement was "fully consistent" with the 1995 Israel-Palestinian agreement, but the part dealing with Hebron was more detailed. In Washington...
JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu met at midnight Monday in an attempt to complete an elusive deal on Israeli troop deployments in Hebron. Arafat is willing to allow Israel 11 extra months (until August of 1998) to withdraw troops from rural areas of the West Bank which, under the autonomy agreement, was to be done by this coming September. TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports that the agreement itself is not a major commitment for Netanyahu. "It is a hard step for him, a big step, but Netanyahu said during the campaign he intended to honor the Oslo...
...Arafat aide described as an "extremely tense" six-hour meeting that lasted until early today. "The talks have hit a serious crisis," Arafat spokesman Nabil Abourdeneh told Voice of Palestine radio. "The Israelis are threatening the peace process by making such proposals." The terms for the Israeli removal from Hebron are already set. But now, both sides are playing for leverage on "final status" issues like the future of Jerusalem, Jewish settlements, Palestinian refugees and borders. So the West Bank timetable, which Arafat insists must remain at September 1997, as agreed to by Netanyahu's predecessors, has become the narrow...
JERUSALEM: Undaunted by Sunday's fruitless pre-dawn meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, U.S. Middle Eastern envoy Dennis Ross spent Monday prodding the two leaders to meet again to resolve the impasse over a Hebron deal. According to an agreement signed in 1995, Israel was supposed to pull troops out of Hebron, the last occupied town in the West Bank, by March 1996. But Netanyahu has delayed the troop removal, saying the 500 Jewish settlers living in Hebron still need protection from Palestinians. While Israel says it remains committed to an eventual...