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Meeting at a joint Israeli-p.l.o. command post inside the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and p.l.o. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin continued to insist that Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel...
...adapt, imposing some measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon be possible. Drawn by the promise of pent-up demand and the conviction that, in the words of a confidential British report to investors, the reform process is ``cohesive, systematic and unstoppable,'' Canadian...
...probably know who the candidates are.'' Namely: Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, and possibly Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and one or two G.O.P. Governors. The wild card: Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...leaked draft of the ``framework document'' intended to serve as a guideline for peace negotiations among all parties in the Northern Ireland conflict. The Protestant Ulster politicans threatened to pull out of negotiations and possibly bring down Prime Minister Major's government. The draft proposes the establishment of joint institutions between Ireland and the North to work on common interests such as agriculture and tourism. This raised fears among the province's Protestant majority that such cross-border bodies might lead to the formation of a united Ireland. In an attempt to quell loyalist protests, Major made a nationally televised...
Weekend talks among Mideast foreign ministers in Washington, D.C. produced joint concessions in the stalled Israel-PLO peace talks, including a Palestinian pledge to root out terrorists in Gaza and Israeli promises to pull back its troops from the region and allow Palestinian elections. After the talks concluded on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the concessions "will contribute significantly" to a Thursday summit between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. But despite a personal appeal from President Clinton, Israel refused to end at once a 23-day closure of the Gaza border that...