71.   Israel and the PLO resumed talks on Sunday struggling to overcome final differences on an agreement to extend Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank, delegates said.

72.   Israel and the PLO were battling against the clock to initial an agreement before sundown Friday to extend autonomy across the West Bank.

73.   Israel has agreed to pull out of the towns, as well as Jenin and Nablus, when an agreement is struck to extend autonomy across the West Bank.

74.   Israel will offer the PLO more control over Hebron at negotiations between military experts to extend autonomy across the West Bank due to resume late Sunday, officials said.

75.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said late Sunday he hoped to see an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organisation on extending autonomy on the West Bank by mid-July.

76.   It said Foreign Minister Shimon Peres informed PLO leader Yasser Arafat of the decision, taken to avoid disrupting negotiations on extending Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank.

77.   Much of Hebron is scheduled to be evacuated by Israeli troops in March under an Israeli-PLO accord extending autonomy in the West Bank.

78.   Mussa said Egypt was prepared to provide its help if it were needed in the talks to extend Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank.

79.   Meanwhile, talks between Israel and the PLO on extending autonomy on the West Bank resumed in Eilat, in Israel, after being suspended following the attack.

80.   Mubarak also renewed his appeal to Israel to implement the agreements it concluded with the Palestinians on extending their autonomy on the West Bank.