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...wake of the supercollider's demise manyscientists hope to be able to go to Europe andwork with a smaller version of the SSC--the LargeHadiron Collider (LHC)--in Geneva, Switzerland...
...notice that an agreement on the Golan is coming nearer -- and they're not sure they like it. The 13,000 settlers who live on the Heights, supported by many other Israelis, have mounted noisy protests denouncing Rabin's plans to give back territory. In the hours after the Geneva meeting, Rabin felt he needed to defuse a fresh outcry and abruptly called for a referendum on the future of the Golan. Whether or not a plebiscite would ever be accepted by Syrians -- or Israelis -- Rabin's gambit had the immediate effect of cooling off his opponents. It also sent...
Assad's performance in Geneva may help speed talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization on bringing Palestinian rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Peres and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were due to meet again at the end of last week in Norway. And if Syria is back on track, Jordan cannot be far behind. Clinton, Assad and Rabin do agree on one point: they would like 1994 to be the year for a breakthrough on peace in the whole Middle East...
Syrian President Hafez Assad, meeting with President Clinton in Geneva, said his country seeks "normal, peaceful" relations with Israel -- under certain conditions. Among them is the complete return of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that before a substantial Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights could be considered, his government would hold a national referendum on the subject. Israel plans to resume peace talks with Syria this week in Washington...
...foreign ministers of Croatia and the Serbian-led rump state of Yugoslavia signed an agreement in Geneva to improve their relations and to open diplomatic offices in each other's capital beginning Feb. 15. Diplomats feared that the separate Serb-Croat agreement could be a precursor to overt military cooperation against Bosnia...