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...help of Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and President Hosni Mubarak, the accord settled a number of sticky disputes that have delayed the transfer of power, notably concerns about the safety of Jewish settlers in the enclaves and the control of border crossings into the occupied territories. But the pact leaves to further negotiations numerous other issues, including the size of the Jericho district and economic relationships. Until they are resolved, Israel refuses to relinquish any of its authority to the Palestinians...
Rabin says it will take at least a month more to resolve the remaining details of the Gaza-Jericho pact. But negotiators on both sides are hoping that after their toughest problems are tamed in Cairo, the rest of the work will go quickly. "I accept his deadline," says P.L.O. senior negotiator Nabil Shaath, "but I hope to beat it." The pace will have to pick up, however, before the goodwill spreads beyond the negotiators to the people whose lives they are shaping...
...source termed support for the contract "overwhelming" The vote in favor of the pact was 30-3 by one count...
...source said yesterday that a stumbling block remains to finalizing the pact. That block may be a pay scale closely tied to the education of officers. Sources were unable to provide further details...
...speech in Brussels in which he stressed U.S. commitment to Europe and pledged to keep 100,000 troops there. Brussels was the site of a two-day nato summit, and the alliance agreed to Clinton's Partnership for Peace plan. The initiative provides for the possibility of former Warsaw Pact countries' joining NATO gradually over an unspecified period. The President toured Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel and then arrived in Moscow, where he urged Russians to continue reforming their economy. In the Kremlin, Clinton signed an agreement with Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, the President of Ukraine, dealing with...