Word: jerichos
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...went as planned, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were to meet this week in Cairo to settle two contentious issues -- one substantive, the size of the self-rule enclave around Jericho; and one symbolic, whether a Palestinian guard will be posted on the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan to the West Bank -- that negotiators set aside for top- level deliberation. The day after the meeting, May 4, they were scheduled to sign an accord laying out the terms by which the P.L.O. will take charge of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank area around Jericho, at long...
...main lobby group for Israeli settlers in the occupied territories: "This is not going in the direction of peace. Peace is less violence, not more." That is perhaps the only point on which settlers and Palestinians agree. Short of a miracle, the April 13 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Jericho and the Gaza Strip and commencement of limited Palestinian self-rule will...
Israel had announced that a Palestinian police force would be deployed in - Jericho and the Gaza Strip and that international observers would take up posts in Hebron last week. Neither event took place, although the arrival of several hundred Palestinian police was vaguely rescheduled for this week. Contrary to the Jewish settlers' nightmares, the advance party of Palestinian police will not be allowed to roam freely with weapons; an Israeli military source insisted they will be unarmed and under Israeli supervision...
...clashes between Palestinians and Israelis, though last week it looked as if Israel might actually withdraw. Although no strategically important positions were abandoned, filing cabinets, computers and pre-fabricated offices were moved. The P.L.O. and Israel have not yet agreed on the boundaries of the future autonomous area in Jericho, but Israeli army bulldozers flattened ground for new military headquarters less than three miles from the city. Gazans expect the Israelis to redeploy closer to the settlements and hope a less visible Israeli presence near Palestinian population centers will lower tensions. But as impressive as it may seem to Israel...
...Arba settler pulled the trigger on his Galil assault rifle, P.L.O. negotiator Nabil Shaath and Israeli Major General Amnon Shahak had reached agreement in Cairo on specific steps to carry out the scheduled withdrawal of Israel's military forces from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. On March 11, according to their plan, Israel would release 3,000 Palestinian prisoners. On March 17, troops would begin to pull out of the Gaza Strip and Jericho. By April 12, one day before the original deadline set last September, the Israeli withdrawal from those first test-case areas...