National Unity

     The Mecca agreement calls for the appointment of a Fatah representative as Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's No. 2, and Fatah officials have put forward Dahlan as their candidate. "Over our dead bodies," said a senior Hamas official when asked about the possibility that Dahlan would be appointed. "This man has been involved in the American-backed plot to topple our government. We want a deputy prime minister from the West Bank." Efforts to implement the agreement brokered last week in Saudi Arabia ran into trouble when Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh presented conditions for forming the government, said an aide to President Abbas. Also,the Hamas official said his movement was opposed to the appointment of another top Fatah official, Azzam al-Ahmed, as deputy prime minister.(12,40)