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- WORLD, Page 58Look Who May Not Be Talking
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- High on the agenda of the new Shamir government will be a
- stepped-up effort to persuade the Bush Administration to break
- off its 18-month-old dialogue with the Palestine Liberation
- Organization. Israelis insist that an abortive Palestinian
- attack on Tel Aviv's beaches two weeks ago demonstrated that
- the P.L.O. has not given up terrorism. The raid was staged by
- a P.L.O. faction called the Palestine Liberation Front, but so
- far P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has refused U.S. pleas to
- condemn the operation and to sever ties with Muhammad Abbas,
- the group's chieftain and ringleader of the 1985 hijacking of
- the cruise ship Achille Lauro.
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- Bush branded the attack "sheer terror" last week and
- revealed that the Administration indeed was considering whether
- to cut off talks. One possible outcome is that Washington will
- suspend, but not terminate, the dialogue. That distinction may
- mean little: the new Israeli government promises to be even
- less receptive to Secretary of State James Baker's Mideast
- peace plan than was its predecessor.
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