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- <text id=89TT3305>
- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: World Notes:Middle East
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 35
- World Notes
- MIDDLE EAST
- One Step At a Time
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In the microns by which progress toward peace in the Middle
- East is measured, last week's announcement by Egypt was a
- significant advance. With the Palestine Liberation
- Organization's approval, Cairo formally accepted in principle
- U.S. Secretary of State James Baker's five-point plan for talks
- between Palestinians and Israel.
- </p>
- <p> Egypt attached conditions to its acceptance, as did Israel
- when it endorsed the plan last month. And since Baker's five
- points were deftly ambiguous to begin with, the endorsements of
- Cairo and Jerusalem imply no resolution of their fundamental
- differences. The major open issues: Israel refuses to meet with
- representatives of the P.L.O. and insists that talks stick to
- its scheme for elections in the occupied territories leading to
- limited self-rule. The P.L.O. is determined to choose the
- Palestinian delegation and pursue the creation of an independent
- homeland. The next step is for the foreign ministers of Israel
- and Egypt to meet with Baker to shape the direct
- Israeli-Palestinian meetings.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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