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Pressing for statehood; the embassy affair; Rivers
and Vanunu; Sheinbein stays in Israel.

JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent

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alestinian leader Yasser
Arafat came to town this
week seeking a deal, but
went home empty-handed.
He wanted Washington's blessing for
Palestinian statehood in return for
postponing a unilateral declaration on
May 4, when the interim Oslo period
expires.
Instead, he gained new assurances
of U.S. friendship and a promise by
the Clinton administration to acceler-
ate mediation of the stalled Israeli-
Palestinian talks after Israel's May 17
national elections.
The unlucky Arafat, whose visit to
Washington last year came on the day
the White House sex scandal exploded
across the nation's front pages, once
again saw his arrival buried under an
avalanche of other news. This time it
was pending NATO action in Kosovo.
Palestinian officials reiterated that
the May 4 deadline has taken on enor-
mous meaning for Palestinians and
that it cannot pass without tangible
signs of progress.
But David Kimche, on the advisory
council of the pro-peace process Israel
Policy Forum and a former division
head of the Mossad, said that "I see
very little danger that [Arafat] will
actually declare a state on May 4; he
would be crazy to do so. But some
politicians are trying to create a frantic
reaction by saying he will."

Prosecutor Loses

The Maryland prosecutor in the
Sheinbein case, in which a Jewish teen
and former Jewish day school student
is accused of a grisly murder, faces a
"logistical nightmare" as he scrambles
to play a supporting role when the
case is tried before an Israeli court.
Still, Douglas Gansler, states attor-
ney for Montgomery County, said
that his office is prepared to make the
best of a bad situation following
Sunday's decision by Israel's Supreme
Court to bar the extradition of Samuel
Sheinbein, 18.
"We weren't surprised by the deci-
sion, but we were very disappointed,"
Gansler said.

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An Israeli police officer warns Samuel
Sheinbein not to talk to the press during
a Tel Aviv court hearing Monday, after
Israel's high court refused again to extra-
dite the Maryland teenager wanted for
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Sheinbein allegedly fled to Israel
after the 1997 murder/dismember-
ment of Alfredo Enrique Tello Jr., an
acquaintance. A second suspect, Aaron
Needle, committed suicide in a
Maryland jail only days before his
trial. Sheinbein and Needle were one-
time students at the Charles E. Smith
Jewish Day School, a Conservative
Movement school in an affluent
Washington suburb.
Last month, the Israeli Supreme
Court ruled that since Sheinbein's
father was technically a citizen of
Israel, the son was protected by the
1978 law barring extradition of Israeli
nationals, even though he had never
lived in the Jewish state. In an unusual
step, Attorney General Elyakim
Rubinstein asked the court to review
its own decision; this week, the court
declined.
Sheinbein was indicted in Tel Aviv
on Monday, the first step in a process
that will begin in a few months, said
Gansler of Maryland. Israel should
pick up the tab for transporting wit-
nesses and evidence, he added, saying,
"we can't possibly afford it in our bud-

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