A Palestinian spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, said, "The Palestinian position is that there can be no bilateral negotiations in Israel as long as Israel occupies Palestinian territory."

To deal with that issue the Authority appointed an Independent Commission on Citizens' Rights headed by Hanan Ashrawi, who made a mark internationally as the articulate Palestinian spokeswoman in earlier stages of peace talks.

A Palestinian spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, asserted today that Israel was using the 12 Palestinians as "hostages to its own political ends," which she defined as "catering to the extremists among its own political circles."

The Palestinian spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, said, "It is sad that we have received news of a violent incident."

Among Palestinians, this evolution has been starkly expressed by the chief Palestinian spokeswoman at the Madrid talks, Hanan Ashrawi, when she proclaimed the other day that "40 years of violence have got us nowhwere."

The featured speaker, and the closest thing to a political celebrity (aside from Ms. Friedan) was Hanan Ash rawi, a Palestinian spokeswoman.

More Explosive Issue The chief Palestinian spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, said by telephone from her home in the West Bank that the Palestinians "are making our point" by delaying their departure.

The Palestinian spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, has used her briefing every day to impugn the Israeli proposals, but she has pointedly stopped short of rejecting them out of hand.

"We had hoped that we would be able to stay longer and to carry out really substantive negotiations with the Israelis," said the Palestinian spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi.

Other independents included figures like Hanan Ashrawi, the main Palestinian spokeswoman during the Madrid and Washington peace talks, who was elected from East Jerusalem.