Opportunity for peace. Yasir arafats Whistle Stop Tour of the hague, the European Parliament in strasbourg, london and onto ireland should have been a lap of honour to coincide with the start of the israeli troop withdrawal from the gaza strip and jericho. But with that deadline passed, the palestinian leaders visit is more of an attempt to solidify his new found status as an International Statesman as he encounters increasing hostility at home. The man in the mosque is the man whose face the plo needs to have and to hold. When the plo blunders, it is hamas, the Palestinian Islamic movement opposed to the peace deal, that wins his support. Russian troops are intervening in squabbles in former soviet republics. Further afield, Boris Yeltsin has changed his tune and now warns that russia opposes the early expansion of nato to include Central European countries. In london today, the Russian Foreign minister, andrei kozyrev, said moscow was intervening in its former empire only to keep the
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