BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: The heat is on at that Middle East summit at Camp David. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators know that their host, President Bill Clinton, leaves early tomorrow for an economic summit in Japan, so time is of the essence. CNN's John King joins us with more from the White House -- John.</s>JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bernie, often we are perhaps in too much of a rush to attach labels like "high stakes" or "do or die" to summits such as the discussions going on today up at Camp David. But on this day eight of these peace talk senior White House officials telling us this indeed is decision day. The president's scheduled to leave less than 24 hours from now for a long scheduled economic summit in Japan. U.S. officials saying the president is not going to change his schedule and that he now wants to push for a deal and making this the final day of the talks. Mr. Joe Lockhart, the White House press secretary, will give the latest in just a little while. We are told by top officials that the talks, once again for the third consecutive night, ran well past midnight up at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland; and that Mr. Clinton is already up this morning, meeting with his Mideast peace teams and about to get back to the business of trying to negotiate a deal. Now at some point today, the president will have to decide, his top advisers say, whether to push and go through the night again, in hopes of reaching a breakthrough agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, or at least the framework of such an agreement, or whether he has decided that he cannot get that far. We're told if the president reaches that point, he will then try to consolidate the progress made at this summit and draft some form of a statement to come out of the Camp David peace talks. Again this the critical day, all eyes on whether the president can broker a deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians -- Bernie.</s>SHAW: John King with the latest from the White House.
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