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Baker telephoned President Bush, who was in Houston, and kept working behind the scenes with the delegation in Madrid...
...third and final day of the ceremonial opening phase, enmity permeated the Hall of Columns of Madrid's Royal Palace. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir labeled Syria a tyrannical regime, and Syria's foreign minister waved a 1948 "wanted" poster of Shamir, accusing him of involvement in the assassination that year of a Swedish diplomat...
...there is no resolution, U.S. officials said last night, Baker simply may issue invitations to all the parties. A possible site would be Washington, a Compromise between Israel's insistence on the Mideast and Syria's demand to stay in Madrid, the officials said on condition of anonymity...
...unless someone has a realistic plan to bridge differences in Madrid, nothing prevents these reluctant healers from bleeding the patient. For some unfathomable reason, a plan is just what the American orchestrators say they don't want to have. Calling the conference and showing up with no proposals, hoping that the parties will develop their own, is not very different from convincing vegetarians to attend a barbecue and expecting them to bring the meat...
Perhaps someone will rise to history's challenge in Madrid, propose a bold new plan, show willingness to compromise, and the Nobel committee can start writing invitations to Shamir, Assad and Arafat. At this point, however, we couldn't even know whether Assad would shake Shamir's hand at the award ceremony...