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...translating that into precise language is proving frustratingly difficult. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the deal to give self-rule to the Gaza Strip and Jericho would be implemented even without the mutual-recognition pact, but formal, reciprocal acknowledgment of legitimacy is crucial to finding a broad, permanent settlement...
...wise of both sides to put off resolving these divisive issues while they test each other's sincerity, and perhaps the confidence built up over the trial period will make a final settlement easier. But it will still be enormously difficult for both Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat to deliver on their opposing promises of what a peace accord will look like...
...articles and four annexes of the Declaration of Principles indicate that they are firmly intended to lead to some final political settlement. The document has been painstakingly drafted, covering -- at least in outline -- the most sensitive concerns of both sides. It provides, first of all, for ! Israeli withdrawal from the 140-sq.-mi. Gaza Strip, with its 770,000 Palestinians, and from Jericho, an ancient, somnolent Jordan Valley town of about 20,000, a thin sliver of the 1 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank...
...have a suit at this level, although I've been approached by a number of highly placed executive women who have been harassed by a CEO or someone of equally high rank," says Ellen Bravo, executive director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women. "Typically those women take a settlement and get out because it's just too messy and they fear that in speaking out their career will be destroyed...
...July 30. Christopher followed up with letters of his own to foreign ministers of the NATO countries, Russia and U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The U.S., said Christopher, intended to use military force not only to relieve Sarajevo but also to push the warring parties toward a negotiated settlement...