1.   Although he has detained one Palestinian official for questioning and issued orders to detain two more, Arafat has so far given no such thorough accounting.

2.   Although they condemned the killing of the Hamas leader, senior Palestinian officials sat down again in Jerusalem with their Israeli counterparts to discuss strengthening their peculiar truce.

3.   An Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah killed three Palestinian security officers, Palestinian officials said.

4.   An Israeli military source said Israeli and Palestinian officials were cooperating to identify the bodies and notify families of the deceased.

5.   And Palestinian officials considered the distinction meaningless.

6.   And Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager, a goatherd, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said.

7.   Arafat has insisted that Palestinian officials have taken steps to combat terrorist violence, but he has suggested that his power is limited.

8.   Arafat is walking a kind of tight rope, Palestinian officials say.

9.   As a result of the relationships he nurtured, Israeli doves and U.S. peace negotiators regarded him as the most flexible Palestinian official.