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...I Cease-fire fails in Middle East by Ron Kampeas Associated Press JERUSALEM—A tentative cease fire between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip lasted barely half a day on Tuesday, dissipat ing in the smoke of gunfights and rock ets fired from helicopter gunships. The renewed fighting, which came as Israeli and Palestinian leaders prepared to attend talks in Paris with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, showed that Israel may have overestimated Yasser Arafat’s influence over an enraged Pales ’ tiniiui population. Israel has said Arafat orchestrated the violence to extract con cessions from Israel. In Gaza, at least three Palestinians were killed in a heavy exchange between Palestinian gunmen and troops in an Is raeli outpost near the isolated Jewish set tlement of Netzarim. One man was unidentifiable, his face blown away by submachine gunfire. Israeli helicopters fired a dozen rockets on the Palestinians assailing the outpost. Youths who had stoned the outpost ducked for cover when the shooting be gan. Ambulance workers hastily loaded the wounded and then sped from the site, doors open. The six days of violence, sparked by Thursday’s visit of Ariel Sharon, the leader of the hard-line opposition Likud par ty, to a Jerusalem site holy to Muslims and Jews, have claimed more than 50 lives so far including the three on Tues day. A total of 19 people were killed Monday alone. In the West Bank tdwn of Nablus, leaders of Arafat’s Fatah faction said they had instructed local gunmen not to en gage the soldiers near Joseph’s Tomb, a flashpoint, because they feared Pales tinian casualties. Gunmen who had escorted a 15-year old victim of the violence to his grave headed straight from the funeral to the Israeli outpost. They took position be hind doorposts, occasionally rushing for ward and firing over the fence. Israeli troops responded with fire. None of the gunmen appeared to be Palestinian po lice. One woman, apparently shot, was carried to an ambulance. One of the gunmen, giving his name only as Mohammed, said the attacks on the Israelis complemented the negotia tions. “I think that without putting pres sure on them, they will not give us more than they already have,” he said, an M 16 assault rifle slung around his neck. “The negotiations are good, but without force, these negotiations will not do any thing for us.” Throughout the West Bank, Pales tinians said the cease-fire meant little in the face of their fury. “The cease-fire does not mean anything to us,” said An war Takakh, joining stonethrowers in Bethlehem. “It is between Arafat and Barak and does not apply to us.” Near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, hundreds of settlers smashed a window on a Palestinian po lice car and torched a Palestinian-owned mechanic’s garage. After Wednesday’s scheduled meet ings in Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak heads to Cairo, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was planning Israel see r»ge 4 The meeting in Paris on Wednesday is a step in the direction of the renewal of the negotiations and not just the end of violence here.’ Shlomo Ben-Ami Acting Foreign Minister Milosevic calls blockades, strikes ‘warfare’ on country ■ Milosevic seeks military aid to end wave of protests | by Misha Savic Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia —The em battled government of Slobodan Milose vic tlireatened Tuesday to crack down on the opposition, calling them subversive elements waging warfare against the coun try through strikes and blockades. The statement, read on state televi sion, suggested the Yugoslav president may unleash one his last weapons against political foes and independent media. The result could lead to street clashes and ar rests to try to end the wave of protests that have paralyzed much of the coun try. Opposition leaders and supporters re mained defiant and insisted Milosevic ac cept liis landslide election defeat. The op ^ position has ruled out participating in a planned run-off Sunday, insisting Milo sevic would only cheat again. “No one has the right to so bluntly annul the people’s will,” said chal lenger Vojislav Kostunica, whom the op position says won an outright victory in the Sept. 24 elections. Striking coal miners at the key Kol ubara complex, meanwhile, ignored an appeal to return to work by Yu goslavia’s army chief, Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic. It marked the first time Milo sevic called on the country’s military to help end current protests. “Legal measures will be especially applied against the organizers of these criminal activities,” said the government statement, which indicated opposition leaders could be placed behind bars. The government also threatened to shut down “media which are financed from abroad and are trying to trigger un rest by spreading lies and initiating blood shed” After the general failed to resolve the coal mine impasse, the government struck back at opposition-run cities and towns across the country by introducing four hour power cuts allegedly triggered by the strike. Electricity was lost in parts of capital Belgrade as well as major cities such as Nis and Novi Sad. In a sign of the government’s grow ing concern for stability, military police were sent late Monday to surround the Kolubara mine where 7,500 miners have put down their tools. The mine, about 25 miles south of Belgrade, is important because it supplies coal to a key Yugoslav power plant, Obren ovac, which is southwest of Belgrade. The tougher language in the Tuesday statement follows a Monday address in which Milosevic lambasted opposition leaders, labeling them puppets of the Wfest. The Yugoslav president’s challengers staged protests around the country to press him to concede defeat in recent elections. Milosevic admits Kostunica wan more votes but says he fell short of a majority, meaning a second round runoff must be held. The opposition insists that Kostu nica won outright, a claim supported by the United States and Western European governments. The campaign of civil disobedience has involved hundred of thousands of peo ple and represented the most serious chal lenge yet to Milosevic’s 13-year rule. The protests even reached his hometown of Pozarevac, where 20,000 massed Mon day on main roads. High school students blocked Bel grade’s Slavija square with garbage con tainers and tens of thousands of opposi tion supporters marched to the statistics, bureau, which counted the votes from last month’s election. Marchers chanted: “Thieves! Thieves!” Belgrade police also turned back two opposition convoys en route to block a key bridge north of the capital and the main highway leading to the west of the city — the first sign Milosevic’s securi ty forces were getting nervous. About 50,000 people, who tried to march in the direction of Milosevic’s ex clusive Dedinje district, were stopped by a cordon of riot police. Protesters went on marching in another direction with out incidents. Barricades remained up around the central town of Cacak where almost all shops remained shut with signs “Closed Because of Robbery’’—referring to Milo- fi sevic’s stealing of the elections — post- ri ed on the windows. One of the country’s main ltigh way s | was also closed early Tuesday, the state . Tanjug agency said. The state bus company rerouted reg ular bus lines to avoid the blockades. Po lice arrested two trade unionists in Bel grade’s bus company early Tuesday, radio . Index reported. Striking railroad workers cut ties link- t. ing Yugoslavia’s dominant republic, Ser- g bia, with its smaller republic, Montene- | gro. Buses traveled only to the border of Eg the two republics. Chris Patten, the Europerui Union’s H foreign affairs commissioner, said Tues- | day that he hoped the popular backlash f against Milosevic will prove “irre- . versible.” “I suppose he may be able to hang | on by his fingertips but I think the writ- I ing is on the wall now, ” Patten said in an I interview with BBC radio. “The brave I people of Serbia have made their views pretty clear.” ■ '(Eht (Bamtcock reminds all students to register to vote! * All registrations must be postmarked by Saturday, Oct. 7. Registration forms are available in the Student Government office and the Office of Community Service Programs. m GOP report alleges White House refusal to turn over e-mails by Pete Yost Associated Press WASHINGTON —The Clinton White House threatened computer technicians and engaged in obstruc tion while failing to turn over thou sands of e-mails to investigators, Re publicans on a House committee conclude in a new report. Summarizing a probe by the House Government Reform Com mittee that began early this year, the GOP report says that the White House’s “failure to report the miss ing e-mails is the latest in a long string of actions meant to thwart Congres sional and criminal investigations focused on the White Hoijse.” The GOP conclusions are bizarre, reckless and false, committee De mocrats said in a rebuttal. The White House said Monday that the GOP re port was timed to coincide with the first presidential debate. “Many sensational allegations have been made, but none have been supported by the facts,” states the De mocrats’ rebuttal. The GOP report will be voted on Thursday. The Republican-controlled com E-mail see page 4 News Briefs ■ Lawyers for sole heir say they’ll prove whether Smith loved hus band or his money HOUSTON (AP) — Lawyers for a son of late oil man J. Howard Marshall II told jurors Tuesday they would prove whether former Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith loved her el derly husband or just his fortune. Smith, 32, and her disinherited step son, J. Howard Marshall ID, 63, sued 61 year-old E. Pierce Marshall for a piece of an estate that is valued at anywhere from $48 million to $1.6 billion. Pierce Marshall asserts that he is the sole heir of .his father, who died at the age of 90. . The plaintiffs maintained in opening statements Monday that Pierce Marshall schemed to steal the state for himself, but attorney Rusty Hardin said Tuesday that the evidence would show his client did not defraud anyone. ■ Test Tube Brother MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the first known case of its kind, a couple had sev eral embryos created in a lab and select ed one to produce a child that was free of a genetic disease and able to provide a transplant to save the life of his 6-year old sister. Last week, doctors at the Universi ty of Minnesota infused blood from the umbilical cord of 5-week-old Adam Nash into his sister, Molly, to try to fight Fan coni anemia, a rare genetic disease that could kill her because she can’t create her own bone marrow. Doctors should know within about a week if stem cells contained in Adam’s cord blood are helping Molly develop healthy marrow cells. We're looking for thinkers, not just their diplomas. Create a future with us. 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