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Monday, August 30,1999 Barak wants treaty signed by today by Ron Kampeas Associated Press Jerusalem — One of Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s senior envoys met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat late Sunday in an urgent attempt to reach agreement on implementing the Wye River accord before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives later this week. Barak warned Sunday night that if Israeli and Palestinian negotiators fail to close a deal “within hours,” he could carry out the U.S.-brokered accord uni laterally and as he sees fit. Israel television, citing sources in Barak’s office said, “within hours” meant by Monday evening. The report said Barak suspects the Palestinians are dragging out the nego tiations until Albright’s arrival Thursday to create a pretext for deeper U.S. involvement. The statement issued by Barak’s office said the Palestinians were not providing “satisfactory answers” on two issues: a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West Bank, and the release of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. A senior envoy for Barak made his case to Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah late Sunday, said Palestinian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. Failure to reach an agreement would lead Barak to consider “imple menting what he sees as the original Wye, although he does not believe this is in the interest of either side,” the statement said. The statement said in that case, he would disregard all agreements achieved in recent negotiations. Implementing Israel’s original ver I sion of the accord would mean an open ended pullout from the West Bank, and the release of prisoners selected, according to Israeli criteria. Both actions would likely infuriate the Palestinians and freeze the peace process. Barak’s statement did indicate a softening in Israel’s stance on the pris oners issue. It said the government “has absolutely no intention of releasing prisoners belonging to Islamic Jihad or Hamas,” two militant Islamic groups that oppose the peace process. Previously, Israel insisted it would not release Palestinians involved in killing Israelis. Singling out the mili tants suggested that Barak was now considering releasing Palestinians from other groups. Palestinians said the prisoner issue was crucial. “The prisoners issue is the core problem in the dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians,” said Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a top Arafat aide. “They cannot reach agreemenuwithout solv ing the problem.” There was also an apparent reversal on the withdrawal’s timetable. In his statement, Barak said a with drawal within six months would coin cide with agreement on a framework for final status negotiations. Negotiators had said last week that Barak had dropped demands to link Wye to the final status talks. The Palestinians hope to control more than 80 percent of the West Bank before they enter final status negotia tions, which will focus on the status of Jerusalem, the return of refugees, and the future of Jewish settlements. The Wye-mandated withdrawal Israel see page e Remains of top Nazi aide committed to Baltic Sea by George Boehmer - Associated Press ' Frankfurt, Germany — In an attempt to prevent neo-Nazis from building a shrine in Germany, prosecutors ordered the remains of Hitler’s secretary, Martin Bormann, committed to the Baltic Sea, a magazine said Sunday. Der Spiegel, a Hamburg-based weekly, said that Bormann’s remains were deposited into the sea two weeks ago after prosecutors ordered his skeleton cremated. “We wanted in all cases to prevent a memorial being erected anywhere,” Frankfurt prosecutor Hildegard Becker-Toussaint was quoted by the weekly as saying. Becker-Toussaint could not be reached for comment Sunday. Spiegel said that surviving Bormann relatives wanted nothing to do with his remains. The state paid the $2,990 in costs for cremation and committal. It was not clear from the report if Bormann’s ashes were scattered or if they in some sort of container that was sunk. Past experience shows that the graves of old Nazis are sought out by neo-Nazis as rallying points. Police have had to block off Wundsiedel, a town near the border with the Czech Republic, where Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, is buried to prevent neo-Nazi demonstrations. Hess, the lone inmate in Berlin’s Spandau prison for 21 years, hung himself on Aug. 17,1987. In his book, “Nazi Germany: ANew History,” author Klaus P. Fischer, describes Bormann as an “intensely ambi tious and calculating man who has been referred to as the “Machiavellian of the office desk’” Bormann, who was sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes by the military tribunal in Nurembeig in 1946, was long rumored to be still alive after World Wtr n and to have been spotted in South America and elsewhere. Genetic tests last year compared Bormann's DNA with that of a relative and revealed that a skeleton dug up in 1972 was Bormann. Prosecutors concluded that Bormann committed suicide by taking poison on May 2,1945. ■" 1 .. — 11 ' " ..... "I Irish Peace Report IRA rebuilding arsenal in U.S. by Andrea MacKenna Associated Press LOTOON — The Irish Republican Army is acquiring a new arsenal through U.S.-based sympathizers, the Sunday Times reported. The London-based newspaper said the British domestic spy network, MI5, made the assessment earlier this month in a written report to Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet minister in Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam. Mowlam last week angered leaders of Northern Ireland’s British Protestant majority by ruling that the IRA’s July 1997 cease-fire remained intact despite the outlawed group’s links with a recent Belfast killing and an arms smuggling ring in the United States. IRA death threats Saturday against four Catholic youths, and against a fifth on Sunday, further angered Protestant leaders who have refused to form a new government that includes the IRA’s allied Sinn Fein party unless the IRA starts to disarm. The youths received ultimatums to leave the province or be killed. The IRA has indicated its truce applies only to the vio lent campaign against British security forces and anti Catholic extremists, not so-called punishment attacks against people — including troublesome teenagers — with Irish see page e VVUKLU DKIthd ■ Publix recalls ground beef Atlanta (AP) — Publix Super Markets Inc. has removed cases of ground beef from some of its stores after federal inspectors found potentially deadly E. coli bacteria in an Aug. 23 shipment, officials said Sunday. No illnesses have been reported, and it was not immediately clear how many stores were affected or how much ground beef was shipped. Calls to the company rang unanswered Sunday. The bacteria was discovered during a routine sampling of the meat in a sub urban Atlanta store, officials said. Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin said state and federal inspectors were trying to deter mine where the tainted beef originated. The Publix recall was voluntary, he said. E. coli can cause serious illness and sometimes death. Symptoms include cramps and bloody diarrhea. ■ Car bomb explodes in Yemeni capital San’a, Yemen (AP) — A car bomb exploded in the Yemeni capital of San’a Saturday morning, killing at least two people, injuring many others, and dam aging a number of embassies and diplo matic homes, officials said. No diplomatic personnel were injured in the 2 a.m. explosion outside a supermarket in the Hadda area, which came hours after two bombs went off in southern Yemen. No injuries were reported from those blasts. No one claimed responsibility for the car bomb. Police were interrogating several people arrested in connection with the San’a blast, according to an Interior Ministry statement. It said initial find ings indicated no political motive, but it did not elaborate. Security officials reported three Yemenis were killed, two security guards and a resident near the super market. 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