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...PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's security forces risked setting off a Palestinian civil war, arresting 112 followers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad today to retaliate forsuicide bombingsthat killed seven Israelis and an American college student Sunday. Militant Islamic leaders threatened resistance against Arafat's government: "If he (Arafat) practices this behavior, we will defend ourselves by all means," warned Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader. The bombings, near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 40 people. Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at Brandeis University on vacation for Passover, died today of her wounds. Arafat's police...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher today set out for Cairo to begin a five-nation drive to get Mideast peace talks back on track. Christopher is flying overnight to Cairo and is slated to continue to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan, plus a Gaza visit with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Since Christopher last touched down in the region three months ago, the peace process has gotten bogged down by Israel's quarreling with the Palestinians, Syria and Egypt, while Israel's tentative peace deal with Jordan hit a financial snag...
What is Yasser Arafat up to? This morning, the PLO chairman's justice minister said that more than two dozen Palestinians would be tried in special military courts as part of a crackdown on Islamic militants. But the group, which faces the death penalty, is on trial for allegedly collaborating with the PLO's erstwhile peace partner, Israel. Later today, as Israeli officials criticized the plan, Arafat warmly announced that he was ready to start negotiating a permanent peace settlement -- including accelerating the final talks now due in 1996. "We are ready to start as soon as possible," Arafat said...
Remember Syria? Secretary of State Warren Christopher said today that he'll return to Damascus in early March to press the last peace holdout to revive its talks with Israel. Also on the agenda are stops in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Gaza, where Christopher will huddle with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to allow Palestinians with jobs in Israel to re-enter the country in stages, ending a bitter standoff with the PLO. After meeting with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Rabin said he would gradually lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and permit 15,000 Palestinian workers to return to their jobs next week. Arafat, in turn, set up a special military court to try suspected anti-Israel militants. He also arrested eight supporters of Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for a Jan. 22 bombing that killed 21 Israelis and prompted...