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...several energy stocks he owned while serving in his current job as National Security Advisor. The White House counsel's office advised Lake two years ago to sell his holdings in four energy-related concerns, which were deemed a potential ethical conflict because his influence in setting U.S. Mideast policy could affect energy prices and thus the value of his stocks. There is some evidence to suggest that Lake instructed his broker to sell the stocks, but the broker did not follow through. Justice is also examining whether any White House personnel, including Lake, gave Congress inaccurate information...
JERUSALEM: Despite efforts of U.S. Mideast special envoy Dennis Ross, a meeting today between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat ended without a resolution on Hebron. While the three-hour talk was "extremely productive," according to Ross, the two leaders could not agree on a plan for pulling out troops from the West Bank city. Other issues of contention: joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols, the right of "hot pursuit" for Israeli police into Palestinian territory, and a timetable for promised Israeli withdrawals from more rural areas of the West Bank. Israel was scheduled to remove soldiers from Hebron in March...
...AVIV, Israel: With the Mideast peace process teetering, Israel commemorated the one-year anniversary of the assassination of one of the architects of the policy, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Marchers carried torches and signs declaring "Peace will avenge his blood" as they walked amid heavy security from the site of Rabin's shooting on the steps of city hall to the hospital where he died 90 minutes later. Rabin's assassination, at the hands of a nationalist Jew opposed to his peace efforts with the Arabs, occurred on November 4, but according to the Hebrew calendar the one-year anniversary...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: By calling this Mideast summit, President Clinton has placed himself in a win-win situation politically five weeks before his election. "Clinton's goal is to quiet down the violence before election day," TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports. "But his political need for peace is not pressing. He is in a no-lose situation. He has already established strong ties with American Jews. By calling this summit, he is seen as trying to whatever he can to help the peace process." While Simons says Clinton is unlikely to apply too much pressure on either side, the President...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: By calling this Mideast summit, President Clinton has placed himself in a win-win situation politically five weeks before his election. "Clinton's goal is to quiet down the violence before election day," TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports. "But his political need for peace is not pressing. He is in a no-lose situation. He has already established strong ties with American Jews. By calling this summit, he is seen as trying to whatever he can to help the peace process." While Simons says Clinton is unlikely to apply too much pressure on either side, the President...