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Article: Skepticism Is Baggage For Shultz's Mideast Trip
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- The Washington Post
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- February 24, 1988
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Secretary of State George P. Shultz leaves for the Middle East
tonight on what many say is an elusive quest for a negotiating
breakthrough that will ease tensions in Israel's strife-torn
Palestinian territories and open the way to a settlement of the
Arab-Israeli conflict.
No one seems more aware of the difficult task before him than
Shultz himself. At a Brussels news conference while en route here
from Moscow yesterday, he acknowledged: "It's going to be tough. I
don't think many people give me much chance and that's the drift of
their questions everywhere: intense skepticism."
But Shultz, usually poker-faced, offered a rare insight into his
emotions about his high-risk Middle East ...