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Israeli Cabinet approves transfer
by Sari Bashi
Associated Press
JERUSALEM —A land transfer that stallec
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks for five
weeks easily cleared a final hurdle Sun
day with Israel’s Cabinet approving maps
for the withdrawal from 6.1 percent o!
the Wfest Bank.
The transfer will take place Tuesday
just before negotiators convene near Wash
ington for peace talks, and will leave the
Palestinians in control of 41 percent ol
the Wfest Bank.
The Palestinians had suspended the
talks last month after it became clear Is
rael was not going to give them populat
ed suburbs of Jerusalem as part of the
troop withdrawal. The revised maps ap
proved Sunday give the Palestinians three
suburbs near, but not abutting Jerusalem.
The maps were approved by a vote
of 16-6. Ministers from two religious par
ties and an immigrant party opposed
the withdrawal, which will give the Pales
tinians full control of 5.1 percent of the
West Bank where they now have civil
ian control. A further 1 percent will go
from full Israeli control to full Palestin
ian control.
“From this week on, 60 percent of
the Palestinians in the West Bank will live
under full Palestinian authority,” Deputy
Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said.
“This is the real change.”
Under the new map, Israel will also
withdraw from areas near the West Bank
towns of Jericho, Jenin, Bethlehem and
Hebron, pullbacks that bring Arafat clos
er to the territorial continuity he wants
to create a state.
Right-wing critics said giving the Pales
tinians suburbs near Jerusalem will threat
en the security of nearby Jewish neigh
borhoods and the unity of the city. Jewish
West Bank settlers held protests Sunday
near the areas from which Israel is to with
draw.
Also Sunday, Israel released five Pales
tinian prisoners jailed for anti-Israel ac
tivity and promised to release ten more
Monday as a goodwill gesture for the
Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, which end
ed Sunday evening.
The five prisoners were members
of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fa
tah faction who were convicted of killing
Palestinian collaborators and injuring Is
raelis over the last two decades. All five
prisoners were from traditionally Arab
east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestini
ans as the capital of a future state.
‘From this week on, 60 percent of the Palestinians
in the West Bank will live under full Palestinian
authority. This is the real change.’
Ephraim Sneh
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister
Paver: Feds have begun criminal investigation into crash
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Associated Press
Seattle—What began months ago as
an inquiry into maintenance practices at
an Alaska Airlines facility has become a
criminal investigation into the deadly
crash of Fight 261, The Seattle Times
reported Saturday.
Citing unidentified sources, the news
paper said the FBI and Department of
Transportation investigators have been
questioning Alaska Airlines employees
as part of an inquiry that has been un
derway for several weeks.
No criminal wrongdoing has been
established in connection with the Jan.
31 crash off the coast of California that
killed 88 people, the Times said.
The criminal investigation grew out
of a 15-monthcold inquiry into practices
at Alaska’s maintenance facility at Oak
land, Calif., the Times said. In that in
quiry, a grand juty in San Francisco is in
vestigating whether supervisors signed
for repairs that weren’t done or that they
weren’t authorized to approve.
The Times said the FBI, which usu
ally plays an advisory role to the NTSB,
is conducting a separate, parallel inves
tigation — a course of action reserved
for cases where there is evidence or sus
picion of crime.
The newspaper cited three sources
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in two federal agencies as confirming the
investigation.
FBI spokeswomen Roberta Bur
roughs in Seattle and Debbie Weierman
in Washington, D.C., on Saturday would
not confirm or deny the existence of any
such investigation.
Alaska Airlines said it was not aware
of a criminal probe.
“The FBI has been involved in the
investigation of Flight 261 since the be
gnning,” airlines spokesman Jack Evans
said Saturday. “Currently, we are un
aware of any change in their role since
the beginning. If there is a change in that
jols. Wll cdoperate with them as we
have been.”
Earlier in the week, the airline said
it put a top manager on leave while it
investigates claims by 64 Seattle me
chanics that they were “pressured, threat
ened and intimidated” to cut comers on
repairs.
Alaska Airlines said it had notified
federal prosecutors and the National
Transportation Safety Board of the claims.
It also said it would immediately ground
any planes found to be potentially un
safe. No such action had been deemed
neeossjsry as of Saturday, Evans said.
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McCain returns to Senate
by David Espo
Associated Press
Washington — Nevermind that John
McCain often joked with his campaign
audiences — in pride, not in sorrow —
about never winning a Miss Congenial
ity award in the Senate.
Public displays of graciousness will
mark his return to the Capitol this week,
a more formidable political force than
when he left it It’s the Senate’s way, even
though he ran a reform-based presiden
tial campaign that rocked the Republi
can establishment and used fellow law
makers as foils.
“Senators are in conflict every day
with each other, in committee, over is
sues, in letters, in the media, on the floor,”
said Sen. Paul Coverdell, R-Ga„ Senate
point man for likely GOP presidential
nominee Geoige W. Bush. “But it has a
fraternal nature to it and you have to
set the battles... aside.”
Beyond the displays of senatorial cour
tesy, the Arizona senator’s allies say
fellow Republicans will ignore his new
political clout at theirown peril.
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senators who have a tidy national con
stituency. One’s name is Ted Kennedy
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Republican pollster Ed Goeas said a
recent national survey pointed in the same
direction, and that McCain can help GOP
candidates in terms cf fund raising and
voter support.
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mittee ought to put hm on right away to
start doing these swiru congressional dis
tricts,” Goeas said. “Te can be a real as
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be the “No. 1 Republican” asked to cam
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Taiwan
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what the loss meant for their party’s fu
ture. They also looked for someone to
blame.
“Don’t get us wrong. We respect
Chen’s victory, because that’s what
democracy is all about. But things have
to change,” said a bank employee who
would give only his surname, Yang.
The protest, which left several peo
ple with minor injuries, contrasted strong
ly with the tone of Chen’s triumphant
first day as president-elect.
As he prepared to embark on the awe
some task of forming a new, minority
government, Chen spent Sunday visiting
government agencies and offering thanks
at temples and to his supporters, while
avoiding any mention of specifics on Chi
na.
In a deeply symbolic round of polit
ical ancestor worship, Chen stood at
the grave of Huang Hsin-chieh, an early
leader of the opposition Democratic Pro
gressive Party, burring incense and telling
the “founding father” of Taiwan’s democ
racy about the “great victory yesterday.”
Chen and the vice president-elect,
pioneering feminist Annette Lu, held out
a conciliatory gesture toward the Na
tionalists.
“I will exert all effort to learn from
the success and expedience of Lee Teng
hui to lead Taiwanand the entire Tai
wanese people,” Qen said.
Chen also praised Lee for his plan to
form a small transitional working group
to oversee the charge in government that
comes in May. The Nationalists will re
linquish power fa the first time since
Gen. Chiang Kai-diek fled to Taiwan af
ter losing mainland China to Mdo Tse
tung’s Communists in 1949.
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Taiwan’s evolution from an authoritari
an state to a democracy with direct pres
idential elections during his 12 years as
the island’s leader. Lee won the first elec
tion in 1996. He will leave office May
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