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Before doing so, Arafat wanted a written guarantee that the size of the self-rule enclave around Jericho would be open to revision, not cemented at the 25-sq.-mi. area drawn on the maps. With that promise, the deal was sealed. But the public theatrics underscored how tentative is each step toward Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. The snafu in Cairo was only "the tip of the iceberg of problems that we shall have to overcome," said Rabin...
Under the agreement, the transfer of power in the Gaza Strip and Jericho enclaves will take 21 days. But the changeover may take even longer. "There is no real deadline," says a high-ranking Israeli negotiator. "We shall stay as long as is necessary." The army preferred to complete its redeployment within a few days, fearing a slow drawdown of troops might expose the departing soldiers to danger if the P.L.O. failed to maintain order. Such concerns were magnified by the P.L.O.'s imperfect management. A day after the Cairo ceremony, the first 1,500 of 9,000 Palestinian police...
...been left for Rabin and Arafat to come to terms on the size of the self-rule district around Jericho. Israel prefers a token zone of 20 sq. mi., whereas the P.L.O. wants twice that area. The two leaders must also decide whether a Palestinian policeman will be stationed midway on the Jordan River bridge. It seems a minor point, but to the P.L.O. such a presence would go far to create an image of Palestinian sovereignty -- which is precisely why the Israelis oppose...
Visible change should come to the territories within 24 hours of the signing ceremony in Cairo, when 1,000 Palestinian policemen are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as Israeli troops pull out. An additional 8,000 police will gradually be deployed. The P.L.O. is expected to make great fanfare out of the arrival of the first police in order to stir up public enthusiasm for self-rule. Spirits have been soured by the slow-moving negotiations as well as by tight restrictions locking out Palestinians who work in Israel, imposed after 13 Israelis died in suicide...
Palestinians finally get self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho...