NEW MOVES ON SYRIA-ISRAEL PEACE

Another sign that the missing link to a true Middle East peace -- an Israeli-Syrian agreement -- may be in the offing: Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced he'd be making a trip or two to the region to help encourage a deal. How serious is the recalcitrant Syria? Foreign Minister Farouk ash-Shara' is due in Washington for talks on the topic early next month. A brokered peace could seriously boost Christopher's portfolio, made weaker by former President Jimmy Carter's roving diplomacy.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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