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...meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land transfers required by the Wye accord, the Palestinian leader insisted Wednesday that his answer was no and that full implementation of Wye was essential to restart the process...
...change of guard disrupts Washington's ability to facilitate new deals. Throughout the trip, both sides insisted that Barak's election signaled a departure from the obstructionist policies of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After the first meeting of Clinton and Barak, the President told aides Barak was a leader "who will be scrupulous in terms of living up to his obligations." The unspoken appendix: "unlike Netanyahu...
...knows that in the delicate triangular relationship linking China, Taiwan and the U.S., the subtlest of words and actions can spark a conflagration. When he persuaded Washington to let him visit his alma mater, Cornell, four years ago, the first-of-a-kind trip by a Taiwanese leader since the U.S. dropped diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in 1979, the incident seemed trivial. But China literally went ballistic. In the midst of Lee's campaign for re-election, the People's Republic, which regards Taiwan as a "renegade province," staged ominous military exercises in the narrow waterway separating the island from...
...WINNER] BOB DOLE: was Kansas Senator, Senate majority leader, presidential nominee...
...falls to President B. J. Habibie to break the impasse. But even if he upholds the results, the winner at the polls ? opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, who garnered 36 percent of the vote compared with Habibie?s 22 percent ? looks far from certain to inherit the spoils. A complex electoral process, which includes significant votes for the military and appointees of the provinces, means that despite the vote, the next president will be decided in backroom deals. "Many fear that the complicated mechanics of electing a president, designed by Suharto to minimize direct public participation, will be used to nullify...