41.   About half of these territories are under some form of Palestinian autonomy.

42.   Abington, the U.S. consul general to Jerusalem, is de facto ambassador to the Palestinian autonomy government.

43.   After Palestinian autonomy, negotiators are focusing on the Golan Heights as the next key issue to resolve in the region.

44.   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.

45.   Anis Qaq, the Palestinian deputy minister of planning, said a transportation link between the West Bank and Gaza was crucial to the development of the Palestinian autonomy.

46.   Areas of joint control are marked in yellow, dotting the map and showing that the Palestinian autonomy zones are scattered and fragmented.

47.   Arab leaders reacted with suspicion and anger to an Israeli proposal to set aside plans for giving up more land to the Palestinian autonomy.

48.   As foreign minister and then prime minister in the previous Labor Party-led government, Peres was the main architect of the peacemaking that led to Palestinian autonomy.

49.   As in previous bombings, the attack was to come at a critical moment in efforts to expand Palestinian autonomy.

50.   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.