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WASHINGTON -- On a chilly Saturday morning late last year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, sat down alone in Rice's apartment at the Watergate here and hashed out a plan.
It was an ambitious one: To jump-start Arab-Israeli peace, Rice would encourage Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel to start talks with the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, leap- frogging interim details and squabbles, and instead trying to define the big "final status" issues of a Palestinian state, which have bedeviled peace negotiators since the Camp David accords of 1979.See the full content of this document
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Rice Seeks Mideast Breakthrough
"It's important to start sketching out broader political issues," Rice said Thursday in a group interview with newspaper...
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