The talks would be based on the Shamir plan for elections to establish limited self-rule on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and then discuss the final status of the territories.

There's also something for Israelis to like: Mr. Bush's backing of the Shamir plan for elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to establish Palestinian qualified self-rule.

He said it would have to be followed in the next two or three years by a series of legal steps to fully establish self-rule.

Mr. Shamir proposed that Palestinians in the occupied lands elect representatives to talk to Israel about establishing limited self-rule.

The idea was to hold elections on the West Bank and Gaza Strip to establish limited Palestinian self-rule.

But despite the justified euphoria over our quick victory, we still face the awesome responsibility of establishing a new government in Iraq that can restore essential services and establish democratic self-rule.

She helped establish stronger self-rule for the Navajos as well as other Native American tribes.

He said Israel should move beyond establishing Palestinian self-rule to an overall settlement of its conflict with the Arabs.

The first stage, initiated in May 1994, established Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho in the West Bank.

A series of Berbers regimes established self-rule at the periphery.