Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paced in his room in Washington's Hyatt Regency Hotel last Monday, Adnan Awad felt both exhilaration and melancholy. A long, unhappy chapter of his life was about to end, but it would not be sealed by the recognition Awad knew he had earned. For 10 years, the Palestinian businessman had helped U.S. officials to track down and prosecute Mohammed Rashid, a notorious Palestinian terrorist. In all that time, Awad felt, the U.S. had treated him shabbily. While he had been hailed by a Senate panel as "a hero for the American people," Washington had taken seven years to issue...
Like a couple committed to marriage but unsure how to live together, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization last week shrugged off their mutual uncertainties and, fingers crossed, set a date to begin a new future. Though negotiators had still not resolved all the details of Palestinian self-rule despite six months of wrangling, they agreed to worry later about the few outstanding issues and get on with the long-delayed transfer of power, beginning this week. Said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, after sealing the date with P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat in Cairo: "It is, I think...
...went as planned, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were to meet this week in Cairo to settle two contentious issues -- one substantive, the size of the self-rule enclave around Jericho; and one symbolic, whether a Palestinian guard will be posted on the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan to the West Bank -- that negotiators set aside for top- level deliberation. The day after the meeting, May 4, they were scheduled to sign an accord laying out the terms by which the P.L.O. will take charge of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank area around Jericho, at long...
...keeping with the Bucharest principle, Israel bowed to several P.L.O. demands aimed at giving the autonomy authority at least some of the trappings of statehood. The Gaza Strip will have its own international dialing code, no longer sharing Israel's 972 exchange, and the Palestinian authority will be empowered to issue passports to residents of the two enclaves. In return, the P.L.O. accepted a three-mile limitation on territorial waters off the Gaza Strip and gave Israel air rights over the self-rule zones...
...fear gripped Israel after another suicide bombing -- the second in a week -- claimed five Israeli lives and left 28 injured. On Wednesday, a Palestinian with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up after boarding a crowded bus in Hadera...