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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 country's civil war. The mission is expected to cost $380 million. Hunting the Zapatistas Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who has been under intense pressure to end the year-old rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas, dispatched hundreds of troops and police to capture the leaders of the uprising. For the first time, Zedillo identified the elusive guerrilla commander, known as ``Subcomandante Marcos,'' by his full name: Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente. Were There Two Killers? The third special prosecutor to investigate the assassination of Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio last March is reported to be pursuing a two-gunmen theory, among others. Although Colosio had two gunshot wounds at different angles and on opposite sides of his abdomen and head, investigators had concluded that the convicted assassin acted alone. Neither prosecutor Pablo Chapa nor Attorney General Antonio Lozano Gracia confirmed that evidence has been uncovered or that the inquiry has shifted focus. Quake in Colombia A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked western Colombia, killing at least 46 people and injuring almost 300. The quake was centered less than 300 km west of Bogota, where tremors were felt. The city of Pereira, in the country's coffee-growing region, was hardest hit. Yet Another PM for Poland Faced with President Lech Walesa's threat to dissolve parliament, Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak of the Peasant Party resigned after 16 months in office. Walesa accepted the leftist-coalition government's nominated successor, Jozef Oleksy, Speaker of the Sejm and a moderate leader of the Democratic Left Alliance. If approved by parliament, Oleksy would become Poland's seventh Prime Minister since 1990 and the first former communist official to form a Cabinet. Wobbling in Almaty Attending the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appeared unsteady as he entered the meeting hall, requiring support from two officials. The spectacle sparked anew concerns about his health and rumored drinking problem. A spokesman in Moscow said there was no reason to believe Yeltsin was ill. During his address before leaders of the former Soviet republics, Yeltsin insisted Russia is seeking a peaceful resolution to its war with Chechnya. Meanwhile, C.I.S. leaders elected the Russian President to another year as head of the alliance. Rwanda's Tragic Legacy A report by French child psychiatrist Catherine Bonnet documents the horrifying extent of mass rapes of Rwandan women by predominantly Hutu soldiers and militiamen during last year's ethnic massacres. ``The scope of the rapes is unimaginable,'' wrote Bonnet. ``Virtually every woman or girl past puberty who was spared from massacre by the militias had been