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Some progress in William Cohen's ongoing battle for Mideast hearts and minds: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia issued a joint warning to Iraq early Monday. "We are pleased with our talks and confident that the fine, close cooperation of our two countries will continue." Despite the good feelings, the results remain the same: No U.S. strike aircraft will fly out of Saudi bases. Cohen did say he expected the Saudis to at least allow support planes on their airstrips. En route to Kuwait, he told reporters it's harder to muster support when Saddam isn't "raping and pillaging...
Implausible as it may seem amid the clamor of scandal, President Clinton this week managed to launch a mechanism for restoring the Mideast peace process. The key to Clinton?s proposal to break the deadlock is breaking up the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Palestinian security measures into a series of reciprocal phases. That would delay final status negotiations until both sides? compliance with their undertakings restores a measure of mutual trust, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer...
...allegations surrounding Clinton distract the President from the business of Mideast peacemaking? ?There?s no evidence that it had any impact whatsoever,? says Fischer...
...region." The Palestinians have implored President Clinton to use some of Washington's power over Israel to force Netanyahu to go along with the peace process, but Clinton's record suggests he regards sweating Israel as an unacceptable domestic political risk. Which probably means the next round of the Mideast peace process will take place in the streets of the West Bank...
...Tuesday was heralded by Iran as a victory over Washington?s policy of isolating Teheran. Many of the same moderate Arab governments had stood up Albright last month at an economic summit in Doha in Qatar in order to express their displeasure at Washington?s performance in the Mideast peace process. Many observers believe this gathering will reinforce calls within the administration for a rethink of Mideast and Gulf policies: The recent Gulf crisis showed not only that Washington has little support in Europe and the Arab world for its Iran and Iraq policies but also that President Clinton...