71.   We met after Israel sent tanks and troops to Ramallah and other Palestinian towns following the murder of the Israeli tourism minister.

72.   Very early Saturday morning, shooting broke out between this Palestinian town and a nearby Israeli army post, residents of Beit Jala said.

73.   Without relaxing its pressure on terrorists, Israel should ease the security blockade that is strangling Palestinian towns and villages.

74.   Witnesses told Israel radio that the tanks were shelling buildings in the city, while accompanying helicopters fired into the refugee camp adjacent to the Palestinian town.

75.   Peres said the bomber in the Jerusalem attack came from Hebron, the only Palestinian town in the West Bank still under Israeli control.

76.   Palestinian police beat journalists trying to report on Israelis moving two caravans into a Jewish seminary in this autonomous Palestinian town on Tuesday.

77.   Other documents indicate Israel is trying to create buffers between Jewish enclaves and Palestinian towns deep within the West Bank.

78.   Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Tuesday the PLO insisted on a timetable for a troop withdrawal from all Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank.

79.   Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Tuesday the PLO insisted on working out an agreement now for a troop withdrawal timetable from all Palestinian towns and villages.

80.   Palestinian elections and the intertwined pullout of Israeli troops from Palestinian towns in the West Bank are five months behind the schedule set out in the peace accord.