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The Palestinian List:
It's A Waiting Game

Topic I

WOLF BLITZER

Washington Correspondent

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MANYA SHOHAT AND HER FRIENDS:

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Topic II

AGING AND THE AGED IN KIBBUTZ SOCIETY

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Shulamit Reinharz
Brandeis University

Shulamit Reinharz teaches
Sociology and Women's
Studies at Brandeis Univer-
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ducted research in Israel on
various topics including the
impact of shelling on fami-
lies living in border commu-
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the development of mental
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style of Israeli sociology. She
is the author of On Becom-
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Qualitative Gerontology.
Her book Aging On A Kib-
butz will be published shortly.
She is currently working on
an annotated edition of
Manya Shohat's writings.

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he U.S. is still waiting
for an Egyptian list of
30 names of potential
Palestinian delegates to
open peace negotiations with
Israel in Cairo.
Of the 30 Palestinians, the
U.S. hopes that Israel will be
able to accept at least 10 —
two of whom will be deported
from the territories.
But the Egyptians, for
their part, have been
waiting for the PLO in Tunis
to draft the list. PLO Chair-
man Yassir Arafat and his
closest advisers are said to
be having great difficulty
reaching agreement among
themselves on the list of 30.
For the time being, Secre-
tary of State James Baker
and other senior U.S. offi-
cials have stopped pressur-
ing the Egyptians for the
list.
U.S. officials said that
Baker was very concerned
about the Feb. 7 Likud Cen-
tral Committee meeting and
the possibility of Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Shamir's
hands being further tied by
its outcome.
As a result, the Americans
do not want to do anything
right now that might
weaken Shamir and overly
upset the peace process in
advance of the Likud
meeting.
They are hoping that he
will emerge with enough
leeway to go ahead with the
peace process, including a
readiness to accept two
deportees in the Palestinian
delegation.
They are still also hoping
for a late February meeting
in Washington involving
Baker and his Israeli and
Egyptian counterparts, For-
eign Ministers Moshe Arens
and Esmet Abdel-Meguid.
State Department officials
said that no firm date has
yet been set for the three-
way meeting since many
obstacles remain unresolv-
ed. That meeting is supposed
to wind up with the an-
nouncement of the start of
Israeli-Palestinian talks in
Cairo.
The Americans confirmed
that Baker was becoming in-
creasingly more prepared to
risk the three-way session
even if all of the differences
have not been overcome in
advance.
But Baker's aides again
strongly denied that the Sec-
retary has ever linked the

allocation of U.S. funds for
the resettlement of Soviet
Jews in Israel to the Israeli
government's position on the
peace process.
They also said that Baker
was fully committed to re-
maining personally involved
in the peace effort so long as
he was reasonably certain
that all sides were serious in
their efforts.
But the Secretary, by all
accounts, is feeling increas-

James Baker:

Fully committed.

ingly frustrated by the very
slow pace of the diplomacy.
"Don't expect any dra-
matic announcements before
the Likud meeting," an
American official said.
The New York Times, in a
lead editorial on Jan. 25,
called on Shamir and Arafat
to "stop making demands
they know the other side
cannot accept."
The newspaper accused
both Shamir and Arafat of
"poisoning the atmosphere"
in the peace process.
Specifically, Shamir was
condemned for his statement
that Soviet Jews should be
resettled on the West Bank
and for the recent detention
of Palestinian nationalist
Faisal Husseini.
"If Mr. Shamir wants to
retain any credibility among
Israeli and American
moderates," the editorial
said, "he will have to drop
two demands. First, he
cannot insist that the PLO
have no role at all in choos-
ing the Palestinian delega-
tion. Specifically, he'll have
to accept as delegates people
who live in East Jerusalem
and Palestinians who have
been deported from the oc-
cupied territories for polit-
ical reasons as distinguished
from those exiled for ter-
rorism.

