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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
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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.
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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
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■ 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. Twelve people were injured,
according to a hospital official in San’a.
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