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Top officials, especially President George' Bush and Secretary of State James Baker, want to meet with Arab and Israeli leaders before they commit themselves to a specific course of action. State Department officials said that the United States wants to take stock of exact- ly where everyone stands before pushing ahead. They note that there has been movement in recent weeks but they are not certain that there has been much progress. No one here anticipates any early breakthrough in the U.S.-PLO dialogue. As far as Washington is concerned, this is still a period of testing for the PLO. In addition, the Americans are most anxious to find out exactly where Israel stands. How much real flexibility is there in Jerusalem? Israeli officials say they are prepared to deal with West Bank and Gaza Palestinians who are not formal members of the PLO. The Americans want to know what — if anything — it will take for Israel actually to start deal- ing with the PLO? Americans The acknowledge that they don't know the answer to that key question. But finding credible non-PLO Palestinians, the Americans are now convinc- ed, is no longer a realistic op- tion; there simply aren't any left. And administration of- ficials, while continuing to pay lip service to an impor- tant role for Jordan in the peace process, believe that the so-called Jordanian option is history as well. Bush, Baker and company will have a chance in the corn- ing weeks to hear from promi- nent Arab and Israeli leaders. According to U.S. officials, the President and his aides want to do most of the listening. At the funeral of Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo later this month, Bush is due to meet separately with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's Hussein. He may also meet with President Chaim Herzog who will repre- sent Israel. Baker: no hurry on Mideast progress. Later in March, Foreign Minister Moshe Arens is scheduled to come to Washington for talks with Baker. Whether Arens will be received by Bush is still unclear but it is likely that Vice President Dan Quayle, an Arens admirer, will see him. In early April, before Passover, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is slated to come to the White House. The Americans already have made clear their expectation that Shamir will arrive with some clearcut and creative proposals that go beyond the 1978 Camp David Accords. So far, U.S. officials have been moderately impressed by some of Shamir's public statements. They sense a new flexibility in Jerusalem on the matter of an interna- tional conference involving the Soviet Union and possibly even the United Nations itself. The Americans are en- couraging the Soviet Union to formally re-establish diplomatic relations with Israel in the hope that this would encourage Shamir to go even further in accepting some limited international opening to direct Arab-Israeli negotiations. U.S. officials are by no means upset by the slow pace of the peace process. From the start, they suspected that it would take some time for Israel to come to terms with the opening of an American dialogue with the PLO. "Israel has to digest that fact of life," one well-placed U.S. of- ficial commented. "We know it's not easy for Israel to swallow and we know it won't come overnight." The