Word: jericho
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...Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat sealed with a handshake on the White House lawn last September is supposed to change that. Next week Palestinians are to begin an experiment with self-government, and Israeli troops are scheduled to start withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area on the West Bank...
P.L.O. leaders in Tunis are scrambling to police their volatile countrymen and firm up plans for the political and economic administration of the Gaza Strip and Jericho, the first territories they are to take over. Last week the mood at headquarters was subdued, reflecting concern among senior staffers that the organization is ill prepared to transform itself from a revolutionary cadre into a working government. Palestinians wonder among themselves if they are really ready. "We thought of everything except ruling," muses a senior P.L.O. official in Jordan. "I tell my colleagues that we need a transition period to prepare ourselves...
...attempt to make him share power. In a similar confrontation that began last month, his aides and foreign donors alike objected when he named himself chairman of the Economic Council for Development and Construction, created to administer the $2 billion in international aid pledged for economic development of Jericho and the Gaza Strip. To keep the planning on track, Arafat agreed to withdraw and give greater authority to economists and technocrats responsible for daily operations...
...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...
...serious since the signing of the peace accord in Washington in September. On Friday Israeli soldiers killed another militant Palestinian leader. Concerned about security arrangements, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned that Israel may not be able to withdraw its troops from Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho before the Dec. 13 deadline agreed to in September...