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Middle East Impasse Meeting at a joint Israeli-P.L.O. command post in northern Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin insisted Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel. Another U.N. Mission The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to send 7,000 peacekeepers to Angola to monitor the cease-fire, signed last November, in that...
