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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Back to the Drawing Board
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- WORLD
- Back to the Drawing Board
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Banished Palestinians reject a plan for partial repatriation
- </p>
- <p> It was described as a "Package deal," though its real design
- was to forestall a package of economic sanctions by the U.N.
- Security Council and return attention to stalled Middle East
- peace talks. In the first policy shift since their expulsion in
- December, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered to
- repatriate 101 of 396 Palestinians still stranded in southern
- Lebanon. The rest, Rabin said, could return after a maximum of
- one year instead of two.
- </p>
- <p> But Israel's tactic, fashioned in part by Washington,
- satisfied few outside the Clinton Administration. The deportees
- held out for full enforcement of Security Council Resolution
- 799, which demands their immediate and unconditional return.
- Meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday,
- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggested that the
- proposal did not satisfy U.N. demands. Back home, Rabin,
- attacked by the right-wing Likud Party for "capitulation to
- terrorist organizations, Arab governments and leftist ministers
- in the Cabinet," told the Knesset that Israel retained the
- option of deporting more Palestinians.
- </p>
- <p> Amid the diplomatic turmoil, the U.S. postponed peace
- talks scheduled to resume this week. U.S. Secretary of State
- Warren Christopher prepared for a Middle East tour in which he
- hopes to persuade Arab leaders to return to the negotiating
- table. Violence in Israeli-occupied Gaza lent new urgency to
- Christopher's peace mission: Friday was the bloodiest day in
- nearly two months, with five Palestinians shot dead by Israeli
- soldiers.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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