MICHAEL HOLMES, WORLD NEWS: Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak is on his way to Washington for a meeting with United States president Bill Clinton. The two leaders are expected to discuss several issues, including Israel's planned troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon. CNN's Jerrold Kessel has more from the Lebanese-Israeli border.</s>JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Workers crossing to Israel from south Lebanon for their regular day jobs. The cross- border employment one element in relations Israel has been nurturing with south Lebanon for more than two decades. Now adjustments in the offing, as Israel prepares to tackle another facet of the complex, often-troubled relationship - its military hold on south Lebanon. In this Israeli outpost on the old international frontier, the proclaimed mission on the wall. "We are here to defend northern Israel." From now on, Prime Minister Ehud Barak says the army will still have to do that but within northern Israel. Israel's military command had wanted a few of its posts, built for tactical reasons just beyond the old border, to remain. But Mr. Barak has told the army a total pullout will be just that. The gate into the small artillery base
Barak, Clinton To Discuss Israeli Withdrawal From Southern  Lebanon