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Recent hopes for a Mideast peace agreement were shattered yesterday, as Israeli helicopters launched rockets at Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in retaliation for the killing of three Israeli soldiers by a mob of enraged Palestinians...
...Arafat "seems to be getting the message" that pre-empting a final agreement with Israel would backfire on him, says a senior White House aide, so he's looking for a way to sidestep the Sept. 13 deadline. Meanwhile, Mideast envoy Dennis Ross has flown to the region to gauge prospects for a second U.S. summit with Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. Both men have been hinting lately that they want round...
...Clinton, Arafat and Barak. For nine days, Clinton cajoled and pleaded with the two leaders. But progress had been so slow that he was ready to give up and fly to Okinawa, where he was already late for the G-8 summit. For seven months, Albright and her Mideast team had been shuttling to the region to persuade the two sides to move closer on the three critical issues that would have to be settled at a summit: the borders of a new Palestinian state, the number of Palestinian refugees who would be allowed to return, and who would have...
...lieu of news, they're releasing menus: We were told that on the first night, the summitteers dined on beef tenderloin, salmon with Thai curry, potatoes and beans. There were cashews available for breakfast the next day, a clear bow to mideast breakfast customs, and there's plenty of hummus...
Thurmont, Md. - Here at the press filing center for the Camp David II Mideast peace talks, a TV reporter was lamenting to a White House press officer: "I've got to go on the air soon and I have nothing to report." The reaction of this news blackout enforcer: "Yesss...