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After the first day of the Middle East peace conference in Madrid, Secretary of State James A. Baker remarked: 'We have to crawl before we walk, and we have to walk before we run. Today I think we all began to crawl.' The secretary's statement recognizes that the peace conference got off to a slow and rocky start. The best that can be said about it is that the parties met face to face in direct talks, and that the process continues.
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