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This Clinton Presidential Library folder of NSC cables, filed under "Flying Saucer or UFO" and covering January to September 1997, holds several cables plus a withdrawal sheet listing three redacted items. A Tel Aviv embassy media report notes an Israeli cartoon about a January 5 UFO alert. An FBIS translation reports that a Colombian helicopter landed in Rubio, Venezuela, prompting UFO speculation. A DoD briefing transcript quotes Kenneth Bacon saying a CIA study found no evidence of UFOs, and an FBIS summary covers Cuban radio claims about the 1947 New Mexico crash.
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DEEPEN HIS COMMITMENT TO THE OSLO ACCORD." NATIONALIST HATZOFE EDITORIALIZED, "THE HEBRON NEGOTIATIONS ARE NO REASON FOR FREEZING JEWISH CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OR, FOR THAT MATTER, PUTTING UP WITH ILLEGAL ARAB BUILDING DRIVES." INDEPENDENT JERUSALEM POST EDITORIALIZED, "IF AN OPPORTUNITY ARISES TO FIX OSLO IN ORDER TO SAVE IT, THAT OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE TAKEN." ## BLOCK QUOTES: I. "ARAFAT REJECTED NETANYAHU'S DEFERRED PULLBACK PROPOSAL" DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT ALUF BEN WROTE IN THE LEAD STORY OF INDEPENDENT HA'ARETZ: "SOURCES IN ISRAEL SAID THAT PA CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT YESTERDAY TURNED DOWN AMERICAN ENVOY DENNIS ROSS' COMPROMISE PROPOSAL CONCERNING THE COMPLETION OF ISRAELI TROOP UNCLAS SECTION 03 OF 05 TEL AVIV 000222 USIA STATE PASS BIB STATE FOR NEA/IAI, NEA/P, INR, HA, IO, S/P, PA, PM USIA FOR NEA, I/GNEA, R/NA, I/RF, I/RFW, B/G, B/TVP, B/TVW B/BXA, M/PA, M/PF, M/PFN, B/A, B/VOA/N, B/VOA/C WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE WHITE HOUSE SIT ROOM JERUSALEM ALSO FOR VOA JERUSALEM ALSO FOR ICD LONDON ALSO FOR POL - TUELLER PARIS ALSO FOR POL - ALLEGRONE ROME FOR MFO NICOSIA FOR ILMG E.O. 12958: N/A SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION REDEPLOYMENT IN THE WEST BANK ... NETANYAHU APPEARS TO HAVE ACCEPTED THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL. THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER MAY HAVE AGREED TO CONCLUDE WEST BANK REDEPLOYMENT AND THE TRANSFER OF TERRITORY TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY BEFORE THE SPRING OF 1999 -THE DATE HE HAD ORIGINALLY SUGGESTED ... AMBASSADOR ROSS MANAGED TO PERSUADE ARAFAT NOT TO WALK AWAY FROM THE NEGOTIATIONS ... ARAFAT WANTS THE AMERICANS TO IMPROVE THEIR GUARANTEES CONCERNING THE NEXT STAGES OF THE INTERIM AGREEMENT." II. "AGREEMENT AGAIN POSTPONED AT LAST MINUTE" DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENTS HEMMI SHALEV AND BEN
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 48 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.