PLO and Israel agree timetable for West Bank withdrawal
PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres seal a timetable for withdrawal from occupied West Bank areas. Israel will pull troops in stages ending by February 1997, with the first removals from four towns before Palestinian elections.
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