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...That sounds fine, but as a Clinton foreign policy triumph, the Wye summit has been underwhelming. "It required extraordinary effort and energy to produce a very modest agreement," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "But that modest agreement is nonetheless essential to get the process back on track so that the Israelis and Palestinians can address the really sticky issues." And whatever others Netanyahu decides to throw into...
Despite Benjamin Netanyahu's theatrics, President Clinton's Mideast peace summit looks set to reach some kind of deal on its eighth day. "The fact that the President is returning to the talks today suggests that the White House believes that some agreement is imminent," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. Late Wednesday, Netanyahu packed his bags and threatened to go home, but then allowed himself to be persuaded to stay. "Netanyahu's threatened walkout was so obviously feigned that it had to be primarily for domestic consumption," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "It's not like...
...Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu until 3 a.m. Wednesday and later considered returning as the talks threaten to break down in a flurry of recriminations. The President has already invested 57 hours in the talks, but both Israelis and Palestinians don't share his sense of the significance of the summit. "The talks aren't even the lead item on the TV news here," says Beyer. "This whole drawn-out high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause of the Oslo Agreement, but Washington is treating it with...
None of which explains why Netanyahu picked him. Netanyahu had held the foreign portfolio himself since January but relinquished it in preparation for this week's U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Wye Plantation in Maryland. That meeting is aimed at achieving further Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West Bank, a move hotly opposed by Netanyahu's far-right coalition allies, who have threatened to bring down the government over the issue. Sharon's promotion is Netanyahu's sop to them, an unpleasant one for the Prime Minister, given the long rivalry between the two men. The idea...
...collided with last year's media blitz about new brain research that warned of the need to provide our youngest citizens with a rich array of stimulating experiences. Everyone from Rob Reiner and Robin Williams to the Clintons embraced the cause. The White House even held a baby-brain summit. As a new mom, I was intrigued--and unnerved--by the scientific breakthroughs and dire warnings about the consequences of ignoring them...