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- <text id=92TT2802>
- <title>
- Dec. 14, 1992: Oh, All Right, Talk
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 14, 1992 Somalia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- WORLD
- Oh, All Right, Talk
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- <p>Israel moves to repeal a law imposing jail terms for meetings
- with the P.L.O.
- </p>
- <p> It is not just a taboo, it's the law--a 1986 Israeli law
- under which anyone who talks to representatives of the Palestine
- Liberation Organization for any reason can be jailed for three
- years. But last week a motion by the Labor-led government to
- repeal that law cleared the first of three readings in the
- Knesset. Though the margin was the smallest possible, 37 to 36,
- final passage appears likely, since opponents made their
- maximum effort to defeat the repeal on the first round; the
- Likud Party even had five of its members hide in their cars
- until moments before the vote in an attempt to throw off
- government tallies. The government insists it still will not
- negotiate directly with the P.L.O., but private contacts just
- might advance peace prospects.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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