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Down To Earth
very time I go out into the dark Texas night and quiet surrounds
me, I am sometimes startled by the beauty and consistency of
nature when suddenly the roar of a plane overhead pierces the air
and I leave the wonderment of the sparkling mysterious stars and
come down to earth.
I often marvel, too, at the man-made birds traversing the skies when I almost
fly on the freeways of the ground on the LBJ run near the DFW International
Airport. I see tens of these giants of the sky either landing or taking-off
simultaneously and still am astonished at their flight. Although I know the
fundamentals of the aerodynamics which keep them sailing through the
sky, much like a motor driven ship sails the oceans, I still am amazed I think
of the thousands of people who are going to or returning from some place
and wonder how many of these flights involve pure happiness, how many
concern sadness like the visit to a dying dear friend or relation. And when I
remember all those industrious business people working on their lap-top
computers, or talking on an air phone while traveling obliviously nearly ten
miles a minute while they’re engaged in their commercial pursuits, I can’t
help thinking of those white puffy clouds in all sorts of shapes like animals
and cherubic babies floating lazily in the same precious sky.
Since the mind is a depository of history and a treasury of
feelings I advance to the marvels of science and can’t help think-
ing that it's almost an eye wink away in
lime wh#*n Wilbur and Orville Wrieht. still
see JESS JAWIN p. 24
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Will Palestinians Declare
Independent State Next Year?
By Gil Sedan
JERUSALEM — As Israel cel-
ebrated its 50th anniversary. Yass-
er Arafat vowed that in a year the
Palestinians would
celebrate their own
independence
The chairman of
YASSER ARAFAT
...Insists on snothsr
13 psrcsnt of Isnd.
the Palestinian Authority reiterat-
ed publicly that on May 4, 1999,
the state of Palestine would be pro-
claimed— withor without Israel’s
consent.
In response, Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu reiterated his
warning that if the Palestinians
declared independence umlateral-
see PALESTINIANS p. 11
INSIDE
Population Study Taking Pulse of US Jewry.............2
Getting Down to Nitty-Gritty for 2000........................2
The Hard Destiny......................................................3
On Becoming a Daughter..........................................3
Washington Watch....................................................4
President Clinton To Show Strong Leadership..........4
Dallas Doings....................................... 5
Still Dead...................................................................6
TJP’s FREE Matchmaker Ads: Catch A Catch...........8
Dallas Celebrates Israel’s 50th..........................12-13
My Father, The Publisher...................................14-15
You and Your Health..........................................16,17
Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion ................................18
Synagogue Services.........................................19, 22
Around the Town.....................................................20
Globalism and Anti-Semitism..................................21
Palestinians Can Do More About Terrorism............22
TJP’s Flavorite Recipes: Breakfast Barrier.............23
Peace Train’s Next Stop In D.C.
May Create New Opportunity
By Douglas Davis
ON DON — The Lon -
I don talks may not be
I the failure they appear
1 ^tobe.
As the parties packed their bags
Tuesday afternoon, both Israeli and
Palestinian officials stressed that al-
though the talks had not produced a
breakthrough, neither had they bro-
ken down.
“Significant differences remain,’’
said one Israeli official,
“but although the gaps
have not been bridged,
we will continue. The
procedures are still in-
tact and the contacts will
go on.”
The talks involved a
dizzying bout of sepa-
rate meetings at three
central London hotels
involvmg U S Secretary
of State Madeleine Al-
bright, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Net-
anyahu and Palestinian
Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat.
And when they were
over, Albright invited
the Israeli and Palestin-
ian leaders to come to
Washington next week
— if they could reach an
agreement for advanc-
ing the peace process
before then
The “if’ is key here.
According to Israeli officials who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
( Analysis )
the answer is a ringing yes.
These officials say that Israel will
accept the American proposals in
some form, even though Netanyahu
has staunchly opposed the 13 per-
cent figure from the start.
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the final-status talks —something
that Israel has long been seeking.
Indeed, Albright herself hinted
of flexibility on the part of the
Israeli government when she told
a news conference just before leav-
ing London on Tuesday afternoon
that Netanyahu had been "helpful
and constructive in his thinking
across a whole range of issues.”
To some extent, the optimism
that the process will resume after
i more than a year of deadlock
I rests on the political wisdom
which dictates that success
or failure in peacemaking de-
pends not so much on matters
of ideology, but rather on
hard-headed pragmatism and
a fine calculation of self-in-
terest.
The encouraging signs
from London this week are
that, whatever intermediate
hurdles must be overcome.
Israeli and Palestinian lead-
ers appear to regard the sue-*
cess of the process as vital to
their personal and national
interests and neither side ap-
pears willing to lake the fate-
ful step of torpedoing the pro-
cess.
Netanyahu might well feel
constrained by right-wing el-
ements inhisCabinct Indeed,
he told Albright that he did
not have this body’s authori-
zation to make a final deci-
sion in London.
British But just the same, he is a
and the future of the PRIME MINISTERS GOOD-BYE —
peace process now de- Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) bids good-bye consummate political opera-
pends on what transpires to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lor who keeps one eye on
during the next week Tuesday at 10 Downing Street in London, winning the nextelection and
Before the Israelis and Next stop for Netanyahu is Washington D. C. the other on the polls—which
Palestinians travel to the for Monday’s meeting.
U S. capital, they must
first resolve their differences re-
garding a widely reported Ameri-
can proposal under which Israel
would redeploy from an additional
13 percent of the West Bank in
exchange for specific Palestinian
steps to live up to their part of
already-signed agreements.
But can the two sides resolve
those differences in a matter of days
after having failed to do so in Lon-
don?
“In some form" will likely mean
that Israel will present some modi-
fications to the American plan —
but just the same, the officials are
confident that there will be an
agreement soon.
Analysts suggest that Netanyahu
may be willing to bend somewhat
because Albright has said that if
the two sides come to Washington
on May 11, as invited, the meeting
would set the stage for launching
consistently show that the
overwhelming majority of Is-
raelis support progress in the peace
process.
Netanyahu, who successfully ran
on a platform of “Peace With Secu-
rity” in 1996, is likely to win a
second term in 2000 if he can deliv-
er on this cautiously pragmatic ap-
proach.
A breakdown in the peace pro-
cess is not in his interests — nor in
those of Arafat, who, confronted
166 PEACE TRAIN p. 7
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