The New York Times · 23 October 1993

CP-1993-028

Israel Eases Palestinian Travel Rules

Clyde Haberman

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Mourners crowded around the coffin of Assad Saftawi, a leading figure in the mainstream faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who was shot and killed Thursday by two masked gunmen.”

Context added by this archive

The eased travel rules are the headline; the photograph is of a PLO funeral in Gaza. Assad Saftawi, 58, killed by Palestinians two months after Oslo — the internal cost of the agreement, printed above the fold of a story about gestures.

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"Israel Eases Palestinian Travel Rules," The New York Times, 23 October 1993. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1993-028. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1993-028

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