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...Shamir spoke, Secretary of State George Shultz was heading to the Middle East, his third such trip in five weeks to try to sell his peace plan. Shamir, who remains adamantly opposed to Shultz's proposals, had fresh reason to be concerned last week. Five days before the Secretary of State left Washington, he met for 90 minutes with two Palestinian-Americans. Both are members of the Palestine National Council, a parliament-in-exile with some 400 members that serves as an umbrella organization for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary Palestinian institutions...
...Professors Edward Said of Columbia University and Ibrahim Abu- Lughod of Northwestern University, are not official representatives of the P.L.O. Even so, Shamir charged that Shultz had violated a 1975 memorandum of understanding that bars U.S. diplomats from recognizing or negotiating with the P.L.O. until the group acknowledges Israel's right to exist. Said Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned his post as Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations last week in order to speak out against the encounter as well as run for the Knesset: "The meeting marks a serious erosion in the U.S. commitment not to negotiate with the P.L.O...
...everything there is a season...a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace," Shultz said. "This is the time and the season to move decisively towards peace...
...remarks appeared aimed primarily at Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who told reporters during a visit to a West Bank settlement yesterday that Shultz had yet to convince him of the neeed for an international peace conference...
...Shultz's third Middle East shuttle since October began after a sharp escalation of bloodshed in the past week in which 20 Arabs were killed and scores more shot by Israeli soliders...