11.   PLO leader Yasser Arafat was quoted Wednesday as saying an agreement on expanding Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank would be signed in Washington next month.

12.   PLO chief Yasser Arafat travelled to Morocco Saturday for talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on expanding Palestinian autonomy.

13.   A delay in expanding autonomy likely would further inflame tensions throughout the West Bank, where clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops erupted over the weekend.

14.   A delay in expanding autonomy would likely further inflame tensions throughout the West Bank, where clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops erupted over the weekend.

15.   A leading peace negotiator on Thursday said Israel and the PLO will likely conclude an agreement on expanding Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank by mid-July.

16.   A spokesman for Yasser Arafat reported slow progress Friday in Israel-PLO talks on expanding Palestinian autonomy.

17.   After months of tortuous negotiations, Israel and the PLO are close enough to reach an agreement on expanding Palestinian autonomy, President Hosni Mubarak says Wednesday.

18.   Arafat is to meet with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin this week to try and revive talks on expanding autonomy to the West Bank.

19.   As Israel and the PLO make laborious progress toward expanding Palestinian autonomy throughout the West Bank, tensions between the two sides over the future of Jerusalem are rising.

20.   But control over Hebron the only West Bank town with a Jewish settler population has proven to be the major obstacle to an agreement on expanding autonomy.