President Clinton named former Senate majority leader George Mitchell to lead an inquiry into the violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Another former U.S. senator, Warren Rudman, will work with Mitchell, who was Clinton’s mediator for Northern Ireland. Also on the panel are former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel, Foreign Minister Thorbjorn Jagland of Norway and Javier Solana, the senior security official of the European Union.
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