61.   Basic components of the coming new phase are Palestinian elections and a companion Israeli troop withdrawal from West Bank towns and villages.

62.   Barak has already declared that he wants to withdraw all Israeli troops from Lebanon.

63.   Barak promised during his election campaign last year to withdraw Israeli troops from Lebanon within a year of his taking office.

64.   Barak wants to combine the final withdrawal of Israeli troops called for in the Wye agreement into progress in the permanent status negotiations.

65.   Baruch Goldstein, a New York native who settled in the West Bank, fired on worshipers with an automatic rifle before Israeli troops wrestled him to the ground.

66.   Because of that volatile mix, Hebron will be the last Arab city on the West Bank vacated by Israeli troops.

67.   Bethlehem is the last remaining Palestinian city occupied by Israeli troops.

68.   Before dawn on Saturday, Israeli troops and tanks moved into the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

69.   Billal Ozorrail, a leader of Al Fatah in Salfit, with his children outside his home, which was demolished by Israeli troops.

70.   Both Bassiouny and Indyk emphasized that an agreement on an Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron would improve the atmosphere for the economic summit.