CLINTON DISPATCHES ENVOY IN BID TO QUELL LATEST ROUND OF VIOLENCE.Byline: Barry Schweid Associated Press A concerned President Clinton sent senior American mediator Dennis B. Ross to the Middle East on Wednesday to try to halt violence that threatens to rupture peacemaking Peacemaking See also Antimilitarism. Agrippa, Menenius Coriolanus’s witty friend; reasons with rioting mob. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] Antenor percipiently urges peace with Greeks. [Gk. Lit. between Israel and the Arabs. ``I am concerned about this. Everybody in the world who's worked for peace in the Middle East is concerned about this,'' the president told reporters. He declined to say whether he might call for an emergency summit of regional leaders. Another option could be to send Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the region, based on an assessment of the report Ross was instructed to bring back to Clinton by the weekend. The president said he did not want ``to comment any more about anything I would consider on the Middle East until I hear back from Mr. Ross. He has very explicit instructions. I want to see what happens as a result.'' Clinton sent messages with the experienced mediator for both Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While State Department spokesman John Dinger Dinger can refer to:
Also, Albright told a group of American Jewish leaders who called on her at the State Department that she was ``deeply troubled'' by the Palestinian Authority's release of terrorists and that Ross was asking Arafat to rearrest them, a participant in the meeting said. Leon Levy of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (abbreviated as CoP) is self described as "a central address for key American, Israeli and other world leaders to consult on issues of critical concern to the Jewish community". , said Albright ``told us Arafat should show a red light against terrorism.'' And David A. Harris David A. Harris is the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, called the "Dean of American Jewish Organizations" by The New York Times. He grew up in New York, the son of Holocaust survivors, in a secular Jewish home, and attended the Dwight School, known , executive chairman of the American Jewish Committee
James J. Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute Founded in 1985, the Arab American Institute is a non-profit, membership organization and advocacy group based in Washington D.C. that focuses on the issues and interests of Arab-Americans nationwide. James Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby, is founder and president of the AAI. , called with other Arab-Americans on Albright to insist the United States takes a more aggressive role in peacemaking. |
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