Clinton's visit

By George Bahgory

Arafat, Clinton and Netanyahu may have found themselves at the same intersection, but they do not seem to be headed in the same direction. Clinton's face, turned upward, is a study in expectant trepidation: will the Congress's weathermen forecast rain? Netanyahu and Arafat form a veritable bouquet of conflicting lines and contradictory pen strokes -- one bland, the other bristling with bulges of suspicion.