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>JN Nov. 3, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 204
US Official's Statement on Accused Spies "Sheer Lie"
By IsraelWire
A high-ranking Iranian government official brushed aside a Reuters report from Jerusalem that quoted a senior US official as saying that "clandestine efforts were taking place on behalf of a group of Iranian Jews detained in Iran on charges of spying for Israel. "It's a sheer lie and a distortion of Iran's stance on the arrested Jews and Muslims on charges of spying," the official told the Tehran Times on condition of anonymity.
Clinton Returns From Norway
By David Gollust (VOA-Oslo)
President Clinton is promising stepped up US diplomacy --including a possible Camp David-style summit meeting - to help Israel and the Palestinians reach their goal of agreeing on a framework for a final-status peace agreement by mid-February. The pledge followed the President's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat in Oslo.
The three leaders had been invited here by Norway for ceremonies honoring the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on this week's fourth anniversary of his assassination.
And US officials say the spirit of Rabin - a pioneer of the peace process that began with the 1993 Oslo accords --was clear in the two days of Middle East talks climaxed by the hour-long trilateral meeting at the US ambassador's residence.
Speaking to reporters after the talks, Clinton said Barak and Arafat had agreed on a regular series of face-to-face meetings to help their negotiating teams hammer out the framework deal as the February deadline approaches.
He said the two had agreed to avoid actions or public statements that might disrupt the negotiating process. The president left the door open to another three-way meeting in the United States before February - modeled on the Camp David summit that helped produce the Israeli-Egyptian peace process two decades ago:
"They have agreed with me that we might well have a summit at the end of this progress, if enough progress had been made to make us all believe that, in good faith, we can actually get an agreement."
A senior US official said the drive for a framework agreement would be backed by an extraordinary US diplomatic push. He said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be making at least one - and perhaps two - negotiating missions to the region as the deadline approaches while Middle East envoy Dennis Ross will be traveling there about every two weeks.
The framework would only be the prelude for negotiating the actual terms of a final peace agreement, which the two sides have agreed should be completed by next September.
Rabin's Daughter: Doubts Official Version of Dad's Death
By Arutz-7 News Service
Yitzchak Rabin's daughter, Dalia Rabin-Pilosoph has many doubts as to whether the official version of her father's murder is the full story. She told the latest issue of Woman's World magazine, "There are a lot of doubts about what happened [at the murder] and how it happened." To the interviewer's question, "What kind of doubts?" Rabin-Pilosoph answered:
"It's very involved, and I'm not sure I want to get into it. I don't want to accuse anyone as long as I don't have concrete proof. I don't want to be sued for libel. But we all [in our family] have the feeling that they simply closed the story by saying that it was a 'mishap.' This is too simplistic. There are so many question marks about the night of the murder... Somebody screamed "Blanks, blanks," and the Shamgar Commission did not determine who this man was who screamed that the bullets were fakes."
Q: "How do you know someone screamed that it was blank? Maybe that is just a rumor?"
DRP: "My mother heard it herself clearly. She called me right afterwards and said, 'They shot Abba [Dad], but don't worry, it wasn't for real.' I'll never forget that conversation with her. She was sure that nothing happened, that Abba was fine."
Q: "Maybe it was just wishful thinking on her part?"
DRP: "Maybe, but there were other people who also heard it. When she was driven to the hospital by the security people, they told her that it wasn't real. And when she asked questions, they were silent and didn't answer her. There are many questions about everything that happened right after the murder. How is it that during the entire ride with my mother, the security people didn't talk with anyone the whole way? Why did they separate between my parents, and take my mother in a separate car?... Why did they want to get her away from the scene of the murder as quickly as possible? Why didn't they tell her that it was just a drill? And what happened to the vital instincts that every bodyguard has? Why didn't they kill the murderer on the spot? How did they not shoot him?
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