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...Mideast Summit...
Israel and the PLO today agreed to resume peace negotiations. Israel and PLO negotiators will meet again Monday in Cairo to prepare for talks between Arafat and Rabin next Thursday at a border crossing in the Gaza Strip. The compromise was reached at a summit in Cairo, hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and attended by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein. After five hours of private talks, the four leaders also denounced terrorism, and agreed to work toward a nuclear-free Middle East. TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons reports that...
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President Clinton, who revived his plans for welfare reform with a weekend summit of federal and state leaders, today told the National Governors' Association that he wants to gives states more flexibility in fashioning plans to get welfare recipients off the dole. But Clinton, whose Administration has already granted several states carte blanche to do just that, cautioned that he would fight GOP-led attempts to gut welfare if they endanger benefits to children. "We must pass welfare reform this year, but it ought to be the right kind with the right results," Clinton said. In a vote later...
President Clinton, who hopes to jump-start hiswelfare reformeffort with a 5 1/2-hour bipartisan summit Saturday, today cautioned the GOP against trying to cut off benefits to people "without regard to what will happen to their children." But eager Republicans, especially House freshmen, warned in return that Clinton would have to jump to their tune. "I think the train is way down the track on welfare and that the president is jumping on the caboose. But I'm happy to have him on board," said Rep. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), who will attend the high-level meeting of Congress members...