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BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT W ashington was awash in optimism this week as an 11th round of Mideast peace talks began with something that has been in short supply since the talks began almost two years ago: genuine hope. The new round of talks began only days after the startling news that Israel and the Pales- tine Liberation Organization were nearing an agreement on a "Gaza and Jericho first" strat- egy for Palestinian self-rule. On Tuesday, Israeli officials indi- cated that a document laying out the framework for the ne- gotiations was ready, but that signing could be held up until next week because of a PLO de- cision to wait for a mutual recog- nition agreement with Israel. But beneath the unexpected surge of hope were some deep concerns about how this week's developments will play out when negotiators sit down and begin to thrash out the details of the self-rule plan. Those ne- gotiations will be vulnerable at every stage to what is certain to be a stepped-up campaign by op- ponents of the peace process, both Palestinian and Israeli. As the peace talks opened on Tuesday, Israeli diplomats and American officials seemed aware of those dangers, and de- termined to temper their new- found optimism with a realistic awareness of the obstacles still ahead. Moreover, a new ambi- guity clouded America's role in the talks. How that ambiguity is resolved will have a major im- pact on whether this week's hopeful developments bear fruit in the weeks and months to come. An intriguing irony to this week's developments is that the apparent breakthrough took place with almost no input from Washington, despite the con- ventional wisdom that only a more assertive role by U.S. offi- cials could salvage the moribund talks. In private discussions, some administration officials made the case that the Clinton administration's expanded "full partnership" role set the stage for the movement toward the deal with the PLO. That role had been sought by Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and by Arab leaders, and it was most evident during Secretary of State Warren Christopher's swing through the region in ear- ly August when he successfully brokered a cease-fire ending the cycle of Hezbollah attacks and Israeli retaliation that threat- ened to terminate the peace ne- gotiations. Mr. Christopher's successful mediation, say American offi- cials in Washington, convinced Palestinian leadership that they risked being left behind unless they began to negotiate seri- ously with Israel. But pro-Israel sources point out that the ad- ministration has consistently opposed the formula for accel- erated Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho, a scheme that first surfaced in secret contacts between Israeli and PLO offi- cials early this year. "America's role was not criti- cal in this," said Gail Pressberg, president of Americans for Peace Now. 'The PLO first pro- How will the administration's peace process team adjust to the changed circumstances of the talks? posed the Gaza/Jericho concept at the end of March. Only when the Israelis recognized through their discussions with the PLO that Rabin would get a lot of what he wanted from them did this really begin to move. Throughout this process, ne- cessity was the mother of in- vention." Initially, the administration regarded the self-rule proposal as a PLO diversion. Then, it con- sidered the proposal a possible symptom of internal divisions within Israel's government, and in particular a reflection of the different approaches favored by Mr. Rabin and his foreign mM- ister, Shimon Peres. 'The administration's failure to recognize the importance of