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Meanwhile, the work of hammering out a draft proposal was wearing down animosities. The Norwegians enhanced the chances for a breakthrough by keeping the atmosphere intimate. Thus, after plowing through reams of documents, the Israelis and the Palestinians shared plates of Norwegian salmon and wandered together in nearby woods. "To say the atmosphere was friendly," recalls Pundak, "is an understatement." The enemies drank wine and brandy together, watched the news and video movies on television and, when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat...
...both sides had produced a draft that Pundak describes as "very interesting stuff." Interesting enough to entice two Israeli Foreign Ministry officials, Uri Savir and Yoel Singer, to travel to Norway soon thereafter for a firsthand look and to join the negotiations. At this point, Arafat in Tunis and Rabin in Jerusalem had been fully persuaded that the channel was more fact than fantasy, and both leaders were closely monitoring the drafting of a declaration of principles in which every nuance was fought over...
Sources caution that these forecasts resulted from a draft of the health- reform plan that is still being refined, and was tested on an econometric model that included "faulty assumptions" about the ways in which employers, workers and health-care providers are likely to respond to health-care reform. Still, these estimates -- and others by independent economists who predict job losses in the 200,000-to-600,000 range -- galvanized Clinton's health-reform advisers last week into a crash program to refine both their computer models and the health-care plan in order to minimize their forecast of unemployment...
...women in uniform toward a newly minted President. Believing that 12 years of Republican indulgence has habituated the military to calling its own shots, the President has dreamed of reaffirming civilian leadership over the Pentagon. But his hands have been tied both by his image as a draft dodger and by the popularity and political adroitness of General Colin Powell, the extraordinary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who virtually dictated the Pentagon's opposition to admitting homosexuals to the armed forces and resisted military involvement in Bosnia. Last week Clinton finally got the chance to take the helm...
...draft beer system will also be added by the fall, and the Kong plans to hold several "study breaks" on Sundays through Wednesdays from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. when free food will be distributed. While Lee said that Kong customers come from "all walks of life," she said that the events slated for the fall are intended to appeal to college students...