Word: palestinian
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...search for a strategy to end the civil war without giving in to the fundamentalists lay at the heart of the presidential campaign. Sheik Mahfoud Nahnah, 53, the avuncular leader of the moderate fundamentalist Hamas party (unconnected to the Palestinian group of the same name) came in second with 25% of the vote. Nahnah's designer suits and silk ties, like his campaign pleas for democracy, failed to reassure secular Algerians. His alleged links to Saudi Arabia and his desire to bring the banned F.I.S. back into the mainstream aroused fears that he planned to make Algeria an Islamic republic...
...certainly. The timetable for the next several months has been set by agreements already signed, and neither side has any reason to alter it--except possibly to speed it up. Thus Peres has already announced that he will finish pulling Israeli troops out of five of the West Bank Palestinian towns by year's end (excluding Hebron, where they must be out by March). That is to be followed by elections Jan. 20 for a new self-governing Palestinian Authority in the no-longer-occupied territories. Arafat is working very hard to get the extremist Hamas movement into switching from...
Then comes the hard part. By next May, Peres must begin negotiating the final settlement with the Palestinians. That will raise all the most explosive questions, such as those about the permanent status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Full-fledged Palestinian state? Federation with Jordan? Autonomous entity? And about Jerusalem: United capital of Israel or some sort of divided city? And about the fate of the Jewish settlers in what will be Palestinian territory. And about the right or nonright of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel and reclaim property there...
...very big gamble. Though Rabin's martyrdom has given the peace process a boost, says a U.S. Pentagon official, "the question is, will it outlast the next Palestinian car bomb that kills Israelis? Nobody knows." Earlier terrorist attacks that have killed 150 Israelis since the original Rabin-Arafat accord in September 1993 did more than anything else to turn almost half the Israeli public against those accords...
...fanatics] have some political importance, but I am worried about the violence ... There is coordination between these [Israeli] fanatic groups and some--some, not all--of the fanatic groups on our side. When I mentioned it to the Israeli government, they didn't believe me. One of these [Palestinian] leaders was sentenced to 15 years in our state security court because of this coordination. TIME: Do you have doubts about Peres' political strength...