CLINTON SAYS INCIDENT MUST NOT STOP TALKS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. President Clinton began a four-day Caribbean holiday retreat Wednesday, but not before being drawn into the more serious business of keeping hope alive for a deal on Israel's troop pullout pull·out n. 1. A withdrawal, especially of troops. 2. Change from a dive to level flight. Used of an aircraft. 3. An object designed to be pulled out. Noun 1. from Hebron. During a flight from Hilton Head Island Hilton Head Island An island off the southern coast of South Carolina in the Sea Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a popular tourist resort. The town of Hilton Head Island, on the northeast coast, has a population of 35,200. in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. , the president told reporters that the shooting of a number of Palestinians by an Israeli soldier in a Hebron market should not interfere with the Israeli-Arab negotiations on Hebron. He said he believes that the two sides ``will go back . . . and make a good faith effort and try to wrap it up.'' Clinton said he talked for about five minutes with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at midmorning mid·morn·ing n. The middle of the morning. . ``I told him how sorry I was. I asked him to convey my condolences to the families,'' Clinton told reporters aboard Air Force One during the flight to St. Thomas. ``I just said, you know this shows you that the longer this goes on the more difficult it is. We need to bear down and go on.'' Earlier, White House spokeswoman Mary Ellen Glynn said that the president was ``outraged and saddened'' by the incident in Hebron in which an Israeli soldier with an automatic rifle opened fire on a group of Palestinians. Clinton had been briefed on the incident before departing Hilton Head Island and spoke by telephone with his national security adviser, Sandy Berger This article is about the American national security advisor. For the Canadian football owner, see Sam Berger. Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton . While Clinton telephoned Arafat, he had no plans to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, since U.S. envoy Dennis Ross already had called to the Israeli leader. Asked why he telephoned Arafat, Clinton replied, ``I called him because . . . they were Palestinians that were shot.'' |
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