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Subject: ALBRIGHT TO VISIT IN SEPTEMBER



> From:    MED News Desk <newsdesk@iipub.com>
> To:      Mid-East Dispatch <med@iipub.com>
> Subject: MED: Vol 1/521 8.31.97: ALBRIGHT TO VISIT IN SEPTEMBER
>
>
>                        THE MID-EAST DISPATCH
>                        http://www.iipub.com/
>
>       DAILY NEWS FROM ISRAEL - ISSUE 521 - 31st August 1997
>
> HEADLINES:
>
> ** 1  Albright to Visit in September
> ** 2  PA Demands 2nd Pullback by Sept 7th
> ** 3  Hadassah to Offer Blood Test for Colon Cancer
>
> ** 1. ALBRIGHT TO VISIT IN SEPTEMBER
>
> US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to begin her visit
> the Middle East on the tenth of September, inaugurating a renewed
> American initiative with her first official trip to the region.
>
> Albright is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
> Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, Egyptian President Hosni
> Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, all in their respective offices.
> Albright has not yet decided whether she will meet with Syrian President
> Hafez el-Assad in Damascus. Whether Riyadh will be on the itinerary has
> not yet been decided either.
>
> Senior State Department officials have said they believe the Prime
> Minister is interested in the resumption of negotiations with the
> Palestinians despite the disparity in their positions. They say
> Netanyahu is motivated by the desire to press Arafat to move directly to
> permanent-status talks, and in building his own image as a peacemaker.
> {MED, ISRAEL LINE 8/31 H}
>
>
> ** 2. PA DEMANDS 2nd PULLBACK BY SEPT 7th
>
> The Palestinian Authority claims that the second troop redeployment
> stipulated in the Oslo Accords must be implemented by September 7; six
> months after the first redeployment which included 2 % of area C and 7%
> of area B.  This redeployment never took place as it was rejected by the
> PA as inadequate and was a contributing cause to the current crisis.
>
> Jerusalem says, however that no such requirement appeals in the accords.
> David Bar-Ilan, the Prime Minister's Communications Director maintains
> the Hebron agreements do not require Israel to withdraw on any specific
> date.  "There is no date on the second redeployment," he said. "There is
> only a date for the third (redeployment) which is August 1, 1998 and if
> you divide  that midway you get November and not September."
>
> Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, who sent letters to Cabinet
> Secretary Dan Naveh and Foreign Ministry negotiator Ya'acov Bardugo
> reminding them that the next stage of the Israeli withdrawal in the West
> Bank is scheduled for September 7,  said, "We believe that Secretary
> Albright should concentrate on ... ending unilateral steps that prejudge
> and preempt the issues of the permanent status negotiations, especially
> the settlement activities, confiscation of land and house demolitions."
> {MED, KOL ISRAEL 8/31 H}
>
>
> ** 3. HADASSAH TO OFFER BLOOD TEST FOR COLON CANCER
>
> Following reports of the discovery of the mutant gene responsible for
> cancer of the colon, Hadassah-Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem will offer
> Ashkenazi Jews a blood test for the gene.
>
> The gene was discovered by Dr. Bert Vogelstein, a researcher at Johns
> Hopkins University Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Baltimore in one
> out of 17 Ashkenazi Jews.
>
> Anyone who carries the gene has a 20% to 30% lifetime risk of
> contracting cancer of the colon, but the majority of colon cancer cases
> are caused by genetic mutations that occur as a result of diet,
> environment and lifestyle, rather than inherited from one's parents.
> {MED 8/31 C}
>
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