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...masses to its Black Sea coast in Soviet times. Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenti Beria had dachas here, as did Mikhail Gorbachev. Cows now graze around Stalin's dacha, while Beria's is occupied by a senior U.N. official trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the dispute with Georgia. The luxuriant richness of nature here - trees and plants forever threatening to displace human habitation - is obviously what has kept people alive these last 10 years. Given peace, they could once again make Abkhazia a tourist paradise. But that chance, like the hopes of becoming a protectorate...
...talks: "He's got to be willing to say that the [Palestinian] state will come in a reasonable time frame; it has to be viable [that is, territorially contiguous], and even if it's established on an interim basis, it's got to be linked to a final settlement." Whatever his proposal turns out to be, Sharon is not expected to back down on his feelings about Arafat. Israeli officials say Sharon will come armed with new, hard evidence of the Palestinian leader's continuing complicity in terrorism...
...right for leadership of the Likud party gives him little room to even appear flexible. The Likud central committee is expected, two weeks from now, to reject any prospect of Palestinian sovereignty between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean - in other words, to essentially rule out a political settlement. At a moment when President Bush needs Sharon to offer the Palestinians more than he ever has done, he's already under fire for the Ramallah deal and his very political survival may require recalcitrance...
...According to published reports of the Taba discussions, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed that "the June 4 1967 lines would be the basis for the borders between Israel and the state of Palestine." Negotiations over annexation by Israel of West Bank settlement blocs close to the 1967 border in exchange for Israeli land elsewhere were inconclusive, as were talks over the refugee issue and the precise terms of sharing sovereignty in Jerusalem - although the two sides agreed in principle to Israeli sovereignty over the city's Jewish neighborhoods and Palestinian sovereignty over its Arab neighborhoods, with the city serving...
...Bush is due to meet Sharon at the White House next week, and is expected to press the Israeli leader to enter far-reaching negotiations with the Palestinian leadership over a two-state political settlement in the near future. While Sharon may have reluctantly, and sometimes ambiguously acceded to pressure from Bush on specific demands, he has repeatedly emphasized his rejection of withdrawal to 1967 borders or the removal of settlements. Pressure from his own political base will likely limit the extent to which he can be drawn into a bold search for a solution compatible with Taba...