The New York Times · 28 March 1988

CP-1988-107

For Edward Said, Shultz Session Proved Collegial and Constructive

By MARVINE HOWE

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Even before Edward W. Said visited Washington Saturday to discuss the Middle East with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel complained that the meeting violated a United States commitment not to meet with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

As it turned out, the first subject that the Secretary of State raised with Professor Said was the state of their alma mater, Princeton University, from which Mr. Shultz graduated in 1942 and Mr. Said in 1957. At what Professor Said called their “very cordial and informal” meeting, Mr. Shultz presented a text of his peace plan to Mr.

Said and to Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a Palestinian-American professor at Northwestern University. The meeting was described by both sides as “an exchange of views” and not as any form of negotiation. The State Department characterized the meeting as a routine consultation with prominent Palestinians.

“We came away with the feeling that Secretary Shultz is serious about going forward with his peace effort and we recommended that he contact other members of the Palestinian Diaspora in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere,” Mr. Said explained Saturday during an interview in the Manhattan apartment where he lives with his wife and two teen-age children. Mr.

Shultz’s plan calls for meetings between Israel and a delegation of Jordanians and Palestinians, with an international conference of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to receive reports on the talks but not to dictate terms of any agreement.

How this transcription was made

Read from the scan at 5x to 8x by a machine looking at the image of the page, not by OCR and not by a person. No masthead, folio or dateline; the only printed time reference is internal - Said 'visited Washington Saturday', and 26 March 1988 was a Saturday, with the label date the Monday following. Nothing on the clipping names the paper, so pub rests on the slide label alone. Three Palestinians are named on the page - Edward W. Said, 52, born in Jerusalem, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod of Northwestern, and Said again under the subhead 'Born in Jerusalem' - all academics and public figures, none counted toward the archive's named-ordinary-Palestinians figure. A sharper Said quotation in column 2, ending 'his troops are killing Palestinians', falls outside the contiguous excerpt because the bridge between columns runs behind the photograph. No caption or credit was found on or below the portrait at 8x, so photo_caption is left empty.

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