Progress Reported in PLO-Israeli Talks
Signs of optimism emerged Wednesday from PLO-Israeli talks on achieving Palestinian autonomy in the occupied lands, with the Palestine Liberation Organization reporting progress and both sides breakfasting with Yasser Arafat.
The delegations resumed talks unexpectedly Tuesday night, a day after announcing that negotiations were being suspended pending a meeting this weekend in Switzerland between the PLO leader and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
Statements by the two men after their meeting last week in Oslo indicated there was room for optimism that a plan can be reached for carrying out the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.
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