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According to a senior official of the Palestinian Authority, YASSER ARAFAT has agreed to postpone the declaration of Palestinian statehood he has repeatedly threatened to make on May 4, the date the interim Oslo peace accords expire. The timing became problematic once the Israelis scheduled elections for May 17. As much as Arafat may abhor the idea of allowing Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU to crow that his tough positions forced the Palestinian leader to back down, he fears a declaration would inflame Israeli passions and thereby help Netanyahu's re-election efforts...
...failure of the coalition. It was just a question of time before it fell because of a challenge from the right flank. I could have kept the government had I submitted to the terms posed to me from my right wing, which said that if I would tear up Oslo and the Wye accord they would stay. I refused, and equally I refused subsequent conditions from the left that said I [should] go ahead and implement Oslo regardless of Palestinian violations and no matter what violence the Palestinians perpetrate...
...with it. And by "football," I don't mean that strange, local game popular among inhabitants of North America! I'm talking about true world football--what you call soccer. How on earth did you manage to overlook FIFA, the governing body of world football? PAUL ERIK NORTON Oslo...
...right, says TIME reporter Jamil Hammad: "The Palestinians believe that it's Netanyahu who abandoned the Wye and Oslo agreements. In fact, it's the people of Israel who are pushing this. The hopes of the Palestinians that a Labor-led government would make things better have been dashed by the rise of the right." Netanyahu says that he is still committed to the Wye agreement, but pressures from his right mean he keeps adding new conditions to its implementation -- pressures that will only intensify as he looks for votes. The political realities of the next four months leading...
...Gore: A symbol of premature hopes: a flag--banned until the Oslo accords--emblazoned with the word Palestine...