61.   Over the past week, Israeli troops have entered Bethlehem, Ramallah and several Palestinian refugee camps in areas that are supposed to be under Palestinian control.

62.   Palestinian officials have complained that Barak has not adhered to earlier agreements that call for the step-by-step transfer of pieces of West Bank land to Palestinian control.

63.   Palestinian President Yasser Arafat balked, saying that the land offered was too sparsely populated and did not connect to areas already under Palestinian control.

64.   Other places targeted for full Palestinian control are Nablus, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Ramallah, and Bethlehem.

65.   Palestinian police now patrol the Gaza Strip and Jericho as Arafat struggles to establish an autonomy there and expand Palestinian control in the West Bank.

66.   --Seventy percent of the West Bank would come under full Palestinian control.

67.   Schools in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho came under Palestinian control in May, when Israeli forces withdrew from those areas.

68.   Six months ago, after Netanyahu and Arafat agreed to transfer most of the West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian control, both sides were optimistic.

69.   So it was in Israel and in the West Bank, which Israel has been ceding to Palestinian control in increments.

70.   Talk shows were dominated by discussions on solutions for Jerusalem, and some callers from the city said they supported plans to put Arab neighborhoods under Palestinian control.