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...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...
...last Monday, real peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians was supposed to begin. That was the day on which, under the terms of the accord signed on the White House lawn in September, the Israelis were to start withdrawing troops from the Gaza Strip. The withdrawal has been delayed, but to demonstrate their scorn for the deadline before it had even passed, members of Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim fundamentalist group, decided to deploy a weapon only recently borrowed from Muslim radicals elsewhere -- the suicide car bomber. So early Monday morning at a highway intersection just outside the Gaza...
Clinton, who hopes to complete his consultations with Cabinet members before Christmas for the 1995 budget, is so desperate for money that one half expects to see him drilling for oil on the South Lawn. Panetta, playing the role of Dr. No, has already told the Cabinet that their initial requests were $20 billion over the congressional budget ceiling. To the dismay of some liberals, Clinton has declared the $281 billion Pentagon budget off limits. Moreover, the latest rules of the fiscal game require that new spending must be matched by offsetting cuts in existing programs. Somehow Clinton must find...
...Israeli-Palestinian relations looks depressingly like the last one, filled with smoke and flame and gunshots. The agreement Prime 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...
...vice president said those who doubt the possibility for change should consider that "A decade ago, who would have thought that the Berlin Wall would have fallen? That Nelson Mandela would be free? That Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat would shake hands on the White House lawn...