"It's a very good beginning," Mahmoud Abbas, an adviser to Arafat, said after he and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy met with Albright to mark the end of a round of talks in Washington. Levy agreed that the negotiators had made "good progress," although he acknowledged that much work remained.
State Department spokesperson James Rubin said Albright would meet in Europe with Netanyahu and Arafat on her way to a Middle East economic meeting that starts Nov. 16 in Qatar. Israeli officials said the meeting would be in London and Palestinian sources said the Arafat talks would be in Geneva.
Rubin said lower-level Israeli-Palestinian bargaining would resume in the region Sunday, focusing on creation of an airport, seaport and industrial park in the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip and establishment of a safe-passage route through Israel to connect Gaza with Palestinian-ruled areas of the West Bank.
The crash happened at a railroad crossing in Holguin province, a sugar-producing area near the island's eastern tip, according to a reporter in Havana contacted by telephone.
The train struck the center of the bus and dragged it several yards down the tracks, the reporter said.
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