Barak wanted peace with Lebanon, too, because he had committed to withdrawing Israeli forces from the country by the end of the year, and a peace agr He wanted me to help keep Shara on board while he waited, and to do it in the isolated setting of Shepherdstown, where there were few distractions from the business at hand. Although I had no primary opponent, I wanted to carry New Hampshire in November, and I needed to deal with the one issue I thought could keep me from doing it: guns. When King Hussein came to see me, he was worried that the step-by-step peace process that had been working under Rabin couldn’t succeed now because of the political constraints on Netanyahu.
There was a great deal of activity in the rest of the world in May. inal talks to be held in the United States; to Sandy Berger, who chaired the deputies’ committee meetings, whic Bob had also been the first head of the National Economic Council. Robert Fiske had been removed as the Whitewater independent counsel on the tenuous claim that his appointment by Janet Reno created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
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