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...they always do, the Palestinians hope Washington will push Israel into more concessions. They may have been encouraged by a comment from Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Robert Pelletreau, who said "more than tokenism" was required from Israel. To sound out Washington's intentions, Arafat dispatched Shaath to Washington last week for talks with + Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other U.S. officials. Shaath said the peace process was "the only guarantee that we will have real security in the long run" but that the Hebron massacre had shown the need for interim measures. "We really have...
...Secretary of State Warren M Christopher made it abundantly clear that the U.S. was not about to do Egypt's dirty work for it. In an elegantly staged buck passing he had Ambassador Robert Pelletreau inform the Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa that since Rahman was not charged with a crime in the United States he could voluntarily leave the U.S. at any time in favor of a sympathetic third country such as the Sudan. Only a formal extradition request could keep him behind bars for the moment...
Though P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat has become more flexible and wily in his diplomacy, his organization's intransigence nearly matches Shamir's. In his first formal session with the P.L.O. last week, a four-hour meeting in Carthage, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau failed to persuade Arafat's representatives to order a halt to the rock throwing and other violence of the intifadeh. The rebuff, together with continued raids from Lebanese territory, showed that progress toward a settlement is more than a matter of moving Shamir's government...
...lost no time following up on its commitment. The next day U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau, the "only authorized channel" for the discourse, telephoned P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis to arrange a meeting Friday at a state guesthouse in nearby Carthage. Pelletreau and a four-member P.L.O. delegation met for 90 minutes; afterward both parties called their first official talks "practical...
...this development as one more step toward beginning direct negotiations between the parties," said Shultz. The U.S. will make it clear that it does not recognize the P.L.O.'s self-declared independent state and will not adopt any of the Palestinian objectives in advance of peace talks with Israel. Pelletreau will have to impress upon the P.L.O. that it must convince Israel, and not the U.S., of its readiness to engage in serious negotiations. Nor will the U.S. cease its unflinching support for the Jewish state or let the P.L.O. divide the two allies. But Washington sees its official face...