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...many observers believe that the talks in the Sinai resort of Taba are mostly for the consumption of Israeli voters. The Palestinians are throwing Barak a lifeline, realizing that progress toward peace is his only hope of holding off the Sharon challenge - and they also don't want to be painted as spoilsports in U.S. eyes. For Barak, keeping the talks going may be a frantic effort to persuade Israeli-Arab voters (about 20 percent of the electorate) to go to the polls and vote for him. It was the withdrawal of Israeli-Arab support that cost Shimon Peres...
...they don't want to be blamed as the ones who helped Ariel Sharon become prime minister of Israel. And Barak sent his negotiators because he wants to fish for a few votes from Israeli Arabs by showing that he's still talking peace. So both sides went to Taba for tactical reasons rather than to achieve a strategic goal, which is peace...
...been little justice for the victims so far. But after more than two years, the first hearings began Thursday in Arusha at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. First to stand before the tribunal is Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former Hutu mayor of the Rwandan village of Taba. He is charged with inciting Hutu militias in 1994 to the mass murder of Tutsis. Akayesu's lawyer is expected to seek a delay, saying he hasn't had adequate time to prepare a defense. TIME's Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis that the prosecution has had its own troubles...
Within hours of hearing about the massacre, Clinton asked the P.L.O. and the Israeli government to move to Washington the talks they had been conducting over the past five months in Paris, Cairo and the Egyptian resort town of Taba. He proposed the two sides keep their negotiators in the U.S. capital until they get not just an agreement to agree or an agreement in principle, but an i's-dotted, t's-crossed accord. Said the President: "We must prevent them ((fanatic extremists)) from extinguishing the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people for a life of peaceful existence...
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians reopened in the Egyptian town of Taba, but three days later, delegates again halted the talks. "On the civilian issues, we are coming closer. On the security issues, there is a lot to be done," said Major General Amnon Shahak, head of the Israeli delegation...