The World - News from Aug. 12, 1987

U.S. envoy Charles Hill, visiting Israel in an attempt to get the stalled Mideast peace process moving, met for more than two hours with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres but neither would give details on their talks. Hill, executive assistant to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, would say only that he and Peres discussed a “whole range of problems” and that he gained “useful insights.” Hill reportedly came to Israel to try to persuade Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to drop his opposition to a proposed international peace conference, which Peres supports. Shamir believes such a conference would force Israel to make territorial concessions.