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With all channels blocked in the Mideast, the best opportunity to salvage the peace accord may arrive Sunday in Washington, where a senior PLO adviser and foreign ministers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt are scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A senior U.S. official today toldTIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisterthat the only solution to the crisis may lie in boosting the economy of the Gaza Strip -- steering economic aid around Arafat's ineffective government and directly to his restive people...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher veered off from the European security summit in Budapest to meet with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, resuming the Administration's attempt to force a Mideast peace breakthrough. In a four-and-a-half-hour meeting, Christopher pressed Assad to make a public declaration denouncing terrorism, but merely received a promise from Assad that he'd think about it. The Secretary then shuttled to Jerusalem, where Israeli leaders blamed Syria for the deadlocked peace talks and expressed little hope that Christopher's trip would jar loose an impasse over the disputed Golan Heights. (Also...
...federal agency that helps U.S. capitalists make investments in developing nations. Helms can also be counted on to ride several other hobbyhorses: his hatred for all communist regimes, including China and Cuba; his passion to see Americans compensated by governments that expropriated their property; his conviction that the Mideast peace process has cost Americans too much...
Israeli officials, worried that recent terrorist acts and protests have fatally weakened PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's grip on his people, began a major, three-day policy debate over whether they can pull their troops from the West Bank before Palestinian elections -- a key part of the historic 1993 Mideast peace accord. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that Israel had "no interest in dragging things out" but effectively no-commented on whether Israel would try to leave some troops in Palestinian areas after the elections, most likely this month. Arafat today instructed the negotiators who'll represent him when...
...largest for any nation -- won't shrink under aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even more U.S. money for an Israeli anti-missile defense system. (The president also said he might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has threatened to cut Israeli aid, but today, future Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...