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...splashy White House ceremony to give the process a boost (and, of course, to associate his Administration with an accord the U.S. had not directly helped negotiate). Clinton left it up to both sides to pick the representatives, and on Friday the Israelis planned to send Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Palestinians P.L.O. Executive Committee member Abu Mazin. But at 7 p.m. Friday the Palestinians told State Department officials that Arafat would head their delegation. Dennis Ross, the State Department's special coordinator for the Middle East, immediately called Warren Christopher, who was having drinks with reporters...
...soon as possible. Without benefit of a formal treaty, the two countries cooperate on matters like sharing the waters of the Jordan River. At the last round of peace talks in June, their negotiators fell to discussing pest control in the neighboring towns of Eilat and Aqaba. Says Shimon Peres: "We were left without subjects except for mosquitoes and flies...
...visit to Harvard of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, originally scheduled for September 22, has been postponed to later in the semester, according to Hillel officers...
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the man who negotiated the deal with the P.L.O., waxes poetic on this score: "Once we shall be over the disputes of the past, all of us will join forces to build a new Middle East like the United States or like United Europe: a continent or region of great tolerance, of real freedom, of science, of education, of understanding...
...noncommittal. Nevertheless, he extended what Pundak describes as a "very long leash" -- in effect, carte blanche to explore all possibilities and report back at every stage of the contacts. Ever since the Labor Party regained power last year, Israel had begun opening the process. In fact, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres had already tentatively explored the possibility of opening back-channel talks with the P.L.O. with the help of Thorvald Stoltenberg, then Norway's Foreign Minister. The Norway link would prove fortunate...