Talks Hit Impasse as Israel Proposes Delay
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From Times Wire Reports
Talks on Israel’s pullout from the occupied West Bank reached an impasse as Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat angrily rejected the latest Israeli proposal that would enable the Jewish state to delay its final troop withdrawal from the area past the September deadline set in 1994 accords. In tense talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested first a May 1999 and then a May 1998 deadline for the final pullout.
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