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BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT ictures of Yassir Arafat em- bracing llamas and Is- lamic Jihad leaders were jarring — but not enough to jar the Clinton administration offits current course as it tries to restart the Israeli-Palestinian talks. Administration officials pri- vately acknowledge that the show of Palestinian unity was a set- back in their effort to push the Palestinian leader toward a seri- ous crackdown on the terrorist infrastructure. But they also continue to be- lieve that Mr. Arafat is commit- ted to the peace process, and that the Palestinians are beginning to work through the three-way se- curity committee that includes an official of the Central Intelli- gence Agency. They also believe that Mr. Arafat's latest flirtation with extremist leaders was a po- litical ploy intended to shore up support for the Palestinian Au- thority, not an endorsement of terrorism. The administration, sources say, continues to define its demands of enhanced security cooperation by the PA, a corner- stone of the new American initiative, broadly; Israel is de- manding specific actions, in- cluding the arrest of up to 200 suspected terrorists. State Department spokesman James P. Rubin ducked the ques- tion of whether Washington sup- ports the Israeli demand, insisting instead that "the best way to make sure security coop- eration occurs is for them to be able to do their work in private. And, their work in private in- cludes the subject of whom to ar- rest and when to arrest them." Mr. Rubin denied press reports that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had postponed her trip to the region because of Mr. Arafat's failure to move aggres- sively on the security front. "I can tell you that there has been no change in her plan," he said. But he also pointed to the ad- ministration's unhappiness with Mr. Arafat's performance so far. "The prospects for advancing the peace process in that trip would be advanced if the Pales- tinian Authority were in a posi- tion to provide additional information and cooperation, through the mechanism that we have helped create, so that the fo- cus would not be on security is- sues, but the focus could be on restoring trust and confidence," he said. Sources here say that Mr. Arafat's actions have put the ad- ministration in a bind. "The hope was that Arafat would give something after Al- bright's speech, and that they could then start to work on Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu]," said a leading pro- Israel activist. 'There is a strong feeling in the administration that they have to push Netanyahu to offer a reasonable plan to the Palestinians — but that they can't do it until Arafat makes vis- ible moves on the security front. So, the meeting with llamas was clearly a setback, regardless of Arafat's motives." Early Political Handicapping Washington is a late-summer ghost town — in part, because armies of candidates and consul- tants are fanned out across the country, laying the groundwork for 1998 and beyond. In Illinois, Rep. Sidney Yates, a Democrat, will retire after an amazing 48 years in the House. With elections still more than a year away, several candidates are in the running, including Chicago lawyer and investor J.B. Pritzker (a familiar figure on the pro-Israel circuit), State Rep. Jan Schakowsky and State Sen. Howard Carroll — all Jewish. "Pritzker is the leading candi- date because of his money and his contacts," said Charles Brooks, HANDICAPPING page 116 PHOTO BY AP Jiapp irt 4%k Islf$Srl THE JEWISH NEWS Yassir Arafat attends a Palestinian national unity meeting in Gaza City.