Israeli and Palestinian commanders were trying to iron out the last disputes over the handover of a second West Bank town to Palestinian security control. Israeli officials doubted whether the town of Tulkarem would revert to Palestinian control on Monday, as originally planned, after a meeting of security commanders on Sunday evening broke up in disagreement. Talks were to resume on Monday. Similar disputes held up the transfer of the isolated desert oasis of Jericho last week. A temporary compromise solved that, but similar disputes appeared in talks about Tulkarem, in a much more sensitive location on the Israel-West Bank line.
