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Nearly three weeks past the scheduled date for the beginning of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, Israeli negotiators and representatives of the Palestinian people are clearly still at odds over the interpretation of the Declaration of Principles that was signed with such fanfare on the White House lawn last September. There has been progress, to be sure, and more significantly there remains among the participants a willingness to move from a meeting of the minds to the sealing of a deal. Just...
...Cairo meetings last week were the third round of talks since the Dec. 13 deadline passed. A fourth round is planned for this week. At issue are three main points: the boundaries around Jericho, protection for Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip and control of the borders. Negotiators on both sides say that a compromise has been reached on the size of Jericho, with Israel agreeing to 23 sq. mi. of Palestinian-controlled territory surrounding the West Bank town -- less than the 80 sq. mi. the P.L.O. wanted but double Israel's original proposal. To protect Jewish settlers, Israel...
...question of who will control the border passages to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank near the town of Jericho after the Palestinians begin self-rule in those areas continued to trouble Israeli and Palestinian negotiators. The size of the area around Jericho that the P.L.O. will administer has reportedly been resolved, but the border-control dispute was seen as more crucial since it so sharply reflects the negotiations' essential conflict: Israel's concern for security and the Palestinians' desire for the trappings of statehood...
...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...
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...