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- <text id=93TT1097>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: A Good Maiden Voyage
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- WORLD
- A Good Maiden Voyage
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Warren Christopher's Middle East trip produces more than expected
- </p>
- <p> He came, he saw, he cut a deal. Previewed as numbingly routine
- and preliminary, Warren Christopher's first trip to the Middle
- East as Secretary of State actually succeeded on many levels.
- On the most important one, he managed to jump-start the Middle
- East peace process, stalled since December when Israel deported
- 415 Palestinians suspected of membership in the radical group
- Hamas.
- </p>
- <p> On Friday, Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev,
- as co-sponsors, announced that they would soon invite the parties
- to a ninth round of talks in April. Israel and the Arab countries
- had been eager to resume anyway, but were further attracted
- by Christopher's promise to thrust the U.S. more deeply into
- the negotiations. The Palestinian negotiators felt similarly
- but have been losing popularity to Hamas; they held out for
- a face-saving Israeli concession. Christopher pressed Jerusalem
- to return the deportees faster and improve conditions in the
- occupied territories. Now if the Palestinians don't show up
- in April, says a U.S. official, "that's their problem."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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