CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER A CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP Are you struggling and juggling to meet the needs of your aging parents, a relative, a spouse, children and /or grandchildren? question of exactly how to implement that new policy, including how to find and nurture alternative Palestinian leaders and how to bring about a gen- uine cease-fire in the 21-month-old spasm of violence. "There are cynics who say this is just a way of putting the whole Israeli- Palestinian issue on hold while the administration tries to make a decision on Iraq," he said. "I think that's an , over-statement." "I think they've made the right deci- sion, but it won't be easy to imple- ment," said Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Right now, there's no plan of action. That's what's missing." Over the weekend, Powell gave only the sketchiest outline of administra- tion plans to encourage new leader- ship, Kipper said. And administration officials "gave no indication of what they plan to do now to try to end the violence." Washington sources say administra- tion officials were still scrambling to assemble a concrete plan around the president's new "dump Arafat" policy. - "Last week, the president spoke from his gut," said a top pro-Israel activist. "In doing so, he went against many top advisers. Now the job is to find a way to integrate that into all the administration's other policy goals. It's not going to be a picnic." On Monday, Assistant Secretary of State William Burns traveled to London to meet with representatives of the "Quartet" — Russia, the European Union, the United Nations and the United States. The object, administration officials said, was to - sell the U.S. goal of reforming the Palestinian Authority to U.S. partners in the region. But the rough plan con- tinues to receive a chilly reception. And the administration continues to have a difficult time answering the question of what they will do if Arafat wins the presidential election he has called for January. Difficult Goal "There is a choice to be made; and Mideast analysts generally agree that there's an opportunity and a chance the administration is serious about for the Palestinians to achieve their cutting Arafat adrift. What's less clear goal, to achieve their aspiration," said is exactly how that new policy will fit State Department spokesman Richard in with other U.S. goals in the region. Boucher on Monday. "We hope they "They've made it clear the adminis- make that choice, and we will work tration has basically written off with them if they do. Arafat," said Jess Hordes, Washington "If they make some other choice, I director for the Anti-Defamation suppose we'll have to evaluate that League. "They were paralyzed for when we get there. But we don't have months by the question of whether or any hope of reaching that goal with not to deal with him, but now the the present leadership and the present decision has been made." Still to be worked out, he said, is the direction on the Palestinian side." ❑ reticent on the talk-show circuit. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," said, "There needs to be reform, not just of one person. The very fact that we keep talking about Arafat, Arafat, Arafat shows that this is a situation politically in which he has not permitted other leadership to emerge, in which a one-man band is dictating the lives of the Palestinian people. That should be objectionable to everybody." Secretary of State Colin Powell led the faction within the administration arguing for continuing to work with Arafat. He lost that fight, and during the Sunday talk-show blitz he strongly echoed the president's new policy. "I have no plans to meet with him," he said on ABC's "This Week." 'At the moment, I can't imagine such a situation. I am trying to find ways to meet with other leaders within the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian community who are will- ing to move in a positive direction," Powell said. On the CBS show "Face the Nation," Powell offered a glimpse of his personal disenchantment with Arafat. "I worked for 18 months to try to put in place a plan that would allow Chairman Arafat to show his leader- ship, but he missed all of these oppor- tunities," he said. Administration officials also con- firmed that an important factor in Bush's decision to demand Arafat's ouster was Israeli evidence linking Arafat to recent terror bomb attacks. - "That was an important piece of information to the president, but the president has been forming this view of the Palestinian Authority for some time," Rice said on Sunday. 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