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...major unresolved issue is border control. Israel regards retention of control as critical to its security; the P.L.O. sees the presence of Palestinian policemen at border crossings as symbolic of the sovereignty they seek in Gaza and the West Bank. Under the occupation, crossing into the West Bank or Gaza Strip into Israel can be a humiliating experience for Palestinians, who are often subjected to interrogations and body searches by Israeli soldiers. The Israelis feel Palestinian control over the crossings would risk making the borders porous to exiles, terrorists and weapons...
...most urgent order of business is establishing the Palestinian police force that is to take over most responsibility for security in the two areas. The first 22 Palestinian policemen crossed the border from Egypt to the Gaza Strip last month, and training of a 2,500-man contingent is under way in Jordan and Egypt. As many as 8,000 from the territories, including members of the Fatah Hawks, will make up the backbone of the force, which will be equipped with small arms and armored personnel carriers. The other 7,000 would come from the ranks of P.L.O. guerrillas...
...policy would be Massachusetts'--and by extension, Harvard's--new regulations on underage drinkers. Like the policy on gays in the military, the new regulations are already making some tutors and College officials uneasy: "There is not a lot of desire on the part of tutors to act like policemen," says Cabot House Senior Tutor Julian P. Chang...
Though the policemen still wear shoulder patches embroidered PALESTINE LIBERATION ARMY, their days of furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow...
...unit are longtime residents of Jordan who have wives and children but are in their late 20s and early 30s, too young to have fought in the Arab-Israeli wars. ("It is impossible that they are on any Israeli blacklist," says an instructor.) "We're going to Jericho as policemen, not as soldiers," Al Sadi reminds his men. "Being a policeman is much harder. The policeman has to help everyone -- no matter what his nationality -- and forget about his own identity and feelings...