Leaders near summit
Hebron agreement could rescue Mideast peace efforts
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Pales
tinians moved closer Monday to an agreement
on Israel’s long-delayed withdrawal from the last
major West Bank city it occupies. Both sides
said a summit of their leaders was imminent.
Officials were trying to arrange a meeting
between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Is
raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. U.S.
envoy Dennis Ross was shuttling between the
two leaders Monday night.
Both sides warned of a possible last-minute
snag, but the atmosphere appeared markedly im
proved over the past weeks’ acrimony. Pales
tinians walked out of peace talks last week over
an Israeli proposal to withdraw troops from the
West Bank town of Hebron.
Foreign Minister David Levy said an agree
ment on Hebron was expected within days.
“If there is no last-minute setback, an agree
ment is close,” he said. “It is not a matter of
weeks, but maybe even a few days.”
An agreement on Hebron would go a long
, way toward rescuing the Mideast peace effort
from the crisis brought on by Islamic militants’
suicide bombings in Israel last winter, the May
election of conservative Netanyahu and last
month’s deadly gun battles between Israeli and
Palestinian forces.
Arafat, who was in Jordan, planned to re
turn to the West Bank town of Jericho on Tues
day with Jordan’s King Hussein.
Israel Radio said the sides had already
reached broad agreement on the main sticking
point — security arrangements in Hebron, the
volatile town where 450 Jews live among 94,000
Palestinians.
The Israeli official said an Arafat-Netanyahu
summit would be to announce an agreement, but
Palestinian officials disagreed.
Hassan Asfour stuck to the Palestinian posi
tion that no changes should be made in the Is
rael-PLO accord that called for Israel to with
draw from Hebron in March. He said reports of
agreement on security issues were “totally un
true.”
A U.S. official said on condition of anonym
ity that an agreement was not imminent and that
a summit had to be carefully prepared or there
would be “double disappointment” if a Hebron
agreement was not announced._
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King aims to
shake up readers
ORONO, Maine (AP)—Horror mas
ter Stephen King wants to do more for his
fans than leave their spines tingling.
“I don’t want to just mess with your
head. 1 want to mess with your life,” King
said at a weekend conference at his alma
mater, the University of Maine. “1 want
you to miss appointments, burn dinner,
skip your homework. 1 want you to tell
your wife to take that moonlight stroll on
the beach at Waikiki with the resort ten
nis pro while you read a few more chap
ters.”
King was keynote speaker at a confer
ence on his works. The conference cov
ered the topics of censorship and student
choice. King’s books are banned in some
schools.
“What I tell kids is don’t get mad, get
even,” King said. “Run, don’t walk, to the
first library you can find and read what
they’re trying to keep out of your eyes.
Read what they’re trying to keep out of
your brains. Because that’s exactly what
you need to know.”
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