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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.”
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students to register to
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Registration forms are available in the
Student Government office and the
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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
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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.
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