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...Jerusalem, as the Israeli Cabinet voted its approval of the peace plan that had been secretly worked out with P.L.O. negotiators in Oslo, thousands of right-wing Israelis blocked the streets around government buildings and shouted their opposition to any compromise with terrorists. When demonstrators turned violent, police quelled them with water cannons, then bodily hauled away troublemakers...
...those who support the Oslo agreement, even if halfheartedly, the new Declaration of Principles provides the only ladder available to climb out of a status quo both sides have been finding more and more intolerable. The plan comes in two parts: first, a framework for interim Palestinian self-rule on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and second, the agreement, still being negotiated, on mutual recognition and an end to the warfare between Israel and the P.L.O...
...negotiators jumped at the chance. Hirschfeld and Pundak, together with the Palestinians led by Kriah, headed for Oslo in January. During the next eight months, they met 14 times in sessions lasting two to three days. Ushered through on separate flights so they would not be recognized, the delegates were escorted at high speed by the Norwegian police to rendezvous points in and outside the capital. In January it was a wood-paneled 19th century rural estate, later a hotel near one of the capital's busiest intersections, a rural farmhouse and even the private residence of Foreign Minister Johan...
...When the telephone range at Trygve Haavelmo's house in Oslo yesterday morning, there was none of the usual surprised-by-joy reaction of a fellow learning he has been awarded the $455,000 Nobel Economics Prize," Warsh writes. "Instead, Hsavelmo was vexed about being called at home. He told the Reuter reporter: I Don't like the ideas of such prizes. I'm not going to talk about this on the phone, and I haven't thought it through. Don't write anything." The 78-year-old theorist then went out and was not heard from for the rest...
...leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request" and a handful of press inquiries to justify a rushed two-day hunt through 10 sets of confidential records in Washington, London and Oslo. Funk's report makes clear that Mullins informed Baker of the searches on or around Oct. 1. When the searches proved futile, Tamposi and her colleagues suggested Clinton's files had been "tampered with" -- a claim that took the FBI seven days to dismiss. But those were seven days...