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More than 2,500 Arab, Israeli and Western politicians, business figures and royalty emerged from athree-day economic summitin Morocco with agreements to compliment Mideast peace with economic development, including the launch of a regional development bank, a tourism board, chamber of commerce and business council. "In a sense, they're saying the Middle East is now open for business," saysTIME correspondent Jay Branegan, in Casablanca. Branegan says the event amounts to a political blessing encouraging "the private sector to come in and consolidate the gains made in peace with investment, training and tourism." Whether it works...
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...Syrian capital, says, however, that Assad's offer of "full peace" if Israel first withdraws from the disputed Golan Heights is something "he has said before many times."What can be gleaned from the unprecedented closed-door talks, she says, is that negotiations over the last piece of the Mideast peace puzzle have shifted to top levels. Sources on all sides tell Marlowe only a handful of officials -- Assad, his foreign minister, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, a U.S. envoy and Clinton himself -- are in on the details. Still, U.S. officials told her today they...
President Clinton, at the central photo-op of his six-country Mideast tour, said today's signing of the treaty between Israel and Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists...