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...Hebron, the second will come from East Jerusalem. The one thing Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin may have in common is their age. And when observers consider the next generation of Palestinian leadership, they look less to the group in Tunis than they do to Faisal al-Husseini, Sari Nusseibah and other West Bank establishment figures. They too have developed influence and authority within the territories in Arafat's absence. If Arafat is slow to deliver on his promises or seems unable to govern effectively, he may have to worry about dissension within the P.L.O. as well as Hamas...
Ordinary Palestinians seem neither hostile nor jubilant yet, perhaps because they are not sure what has happened. "People are in a state of suspension," says P.L.O. activist Sari Nusseibeh. "They are waiting to hear the facts and how this will affect their lives." Nusseibeh is one of the few who "enthusiastically support" the deal. The road to a Palestinian state must begin somewhere, he argues. "We have the choice of continuing to dream of a palace in the sky or building a hut on the ground. From the hut, a palace can be built...
...that, as Palestinians see it, means a settlement that would bring about Israeli withdrawal from the territories. Yet the very search for a peaceful solution risks more bloodshed: hard-line Palestinians are convinced that negotiating with the Israelis is tantamount to selling out the cause. Thus, Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh suggests, as the peace process resumes and perhaps accelerates, that Palestinian militants may continue to try to sabotage it by force of arms. In that case, the sayarot will be here to stay...
...government, headed by Prime Minister Sari Mahathir, saw Sabahan requests for more autonomy as a threat. Tensions between the local Sabahan government and the KL government escalated as the KL government began to pressure the Kitingans, major players...
...filling it with antiques, Indian artifacts and a collection of wizard figurines; his inner child, he says, is "fascinated by wizards." Shopping has become something of an obsession, and his tastes run to the opulent: his bedroom has purple wallpaper and a sleigh bed draped with a purple sari. He now has a second home: a Swiss-style chalet on a private 25- acre lake in Montana...