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Rabin's Labor government is selling the agreement on the not entirely reassuring ground that it is "reversible" if the P.L.O. welshes or cannot contain extremist violence. Rabin almost surely will get the pact through the Knesset, and once it is approved, it will be difficult for any subsequent Israeli government to back out. Ariel Sharon, a leader of the opposition Likud bloc, thundered last week that if his party returns to power, it "will not honor" the pact. But no one else in Likud endorsed his view...
...decide what to do," said a spokesman for IBM, which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random outbreak shattered the night in Johannesburg. In two separate attacks, gunmen with automatic weapons sprayed buses loaded with homeward-bound black commuters, killing 21. The toll of factional violence has reached 1,500 deaths since...
...immediate fruit. Both sides share an urgent desire to reach such an agreement, yet translating that into precise language is proving frustratingly difficult. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the deal to give self-rule to the Gaza Strip and Jericho would be implemented even without the mutual-recognition pact, but formal, reciprocal acknowledgment of legitimacy is crucial to finding a broad, permanent settlement...
After nearly 50 years of seemingly irremediable hatred, the Israelis and the Palestinians have drafted a preliminary peace agreement. The pact, expected to be signed within days, comes at the end of nine months of secret negotiations between Israeli officials and members of the p.l.o. Jerusalem has agreed to recognize officially the P.L.O. if the organization repeals parts of its covenant calling for Israel's destruction. The plan provides for limited self- government for the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and will be implemented first in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho...
Defying President Clinton, David Bonior, third-ranking Democrat in the House, said he would use his majority whip's office to organize opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would eliminate tariff barriers between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Democrats are already badly split on the pact...