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Show Sunday, May 18, 2003, THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HuiTheHerald.comX Prow, Utah Page A5 Global WHO: MaSsrity By MEGAN K. STACK cf 1 Los Angles Times SARSis almost over - minority oftheSARS outbreaks around the world are coming to an end, the World Health Organization said Saturday as officials expressed "great hope" that measures to control the spread of the disease were working. Difficult struggles remain in mainland China, but the epidemic there, although f JERUSALEM A long silence was broken here Saturday night when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new Palestinian Authori ty Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas met for the first talks between their peoples in 31 months of incessant fighting. The two statesmen debated privately for nearly three hours, but their fledgling attempts to broker peace were undermined by shooting attacks and a bombing in the Pales-- 1 tinian territories. Against this belligerent backdrop, the prime "ministers' summit marked a return to negotiations that faded away in September 2000. The meeting was "really not a matter of content or substance," said Gilead Sher, an Israeli negotiator under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. "It's much more a matter of process, timing, effort and image. The time will come for the content" y Israelis and Palestinians, however, quietly dismissed the meeting as a cosmetic gesture belying a deeply entrenched stalemate. Widespread cynicism in this region has been deepened by continuing violence, by lingering disappointment at the unraveling of the 1993 Oslo peace accords and by the suspicion that Sharon and Abbas lack the political strength and will they would top-lev- el , large, is no more complex than it is in other countries and the government is making great strides, said Mike Ryan, WHOV coordinator of the global effort to stop the severe acute respiratory syn-drovirus. Scientists from 16 SARS-struc- k locations concluded a conference Saturday at the WHCs Geneva headquarters, where they discussed the key factors that allow the objections. The road map is for implementation, not for research or discussion," Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr said Saturday. "We dont fully 1 . Unv-ENKIC MARI of smuggling ring peace plan. The negotiations are jolting along against a backdrop of violence and strife. On Saturday, as nightfall ended the Jewish Sabbath, a militant disguised as a religious Jew slipped onto the streets of the contentious West Bank city of Hebron and blew himself up, killing a Jewish man and his pregnant wife. Later, just as the prime ministers' summit ended, two radicals were shot dead trying to infiltrate the West Bank settlement of Shaarei Tikva. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded nine others in gun battles. Israeli police stand in front of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office during a meeting between Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem on Saturday. It was the first summit in 3 years. Associated Press Writer -Inv- DEAIMLLE, France -- The United States on Saturday secured a commitment from the world's wealthiest nations and Russia not to demand that Iraq begin paying off its huge debts before 2005, easing the country's path to recovery. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said he obtained the pledge from finance ministers of the Group of Eight during their two days of talks in this seaside Normandy resort "transportation cell" at the heart of the smuggling case is part of a conspiracy to bring illegal immigrants across the border with promises ofjobs, said US. Attorney Michael need to enforce peace. "It's a sham," said Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist at Hebrew University. "A puppet show." The two leaders walked into Sharon's heavily guarded Jerusalem offices with radically different agendas. Sharon has said he is unwilling to make compromises to achieve peace until Palestinian attacks on But Germany, a staunch war opponent of the U.S.-le- d By KIM HOUSEGO estigators HOUSTON (AP) believe a smuggling operation in which 19 illegal immigrants died after being packed into a sweltering .trailer Ninth dozens of other people is part of a larger organization, a federal prosecutor said. Only one person has been arrested, a truck driver from Schenectady, N.Y. Authorities believe the Israelis stop. The Israeli prime minister wants Abbas to reform Palestinian security forces, confiscate weapons and bring muscle to bear on would-b- e snipers and suicide bombers. Skeptical Palestinians dismiss the Israeli demands as a stalling techv nique, "Sharon's main concern now is to to oust Saddam Hussein, ruled out forgiving Iraqi debts a move Washington is thought to favor. "Debt cancelation is not a topic of discussion," German Finance Minister Hans Eichel told reporters. However, Snow said "there was general recognition that we cannot expect Iraq to make service payments on that debt at least through the end of 2004." The secretary said he also won backing from his 8 counterparts to expand inter G-- national efforts to survey the extent of Iraqi debts, estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. The ministers asked the heads of the International Monetary Fund which dates from the 1970s. Iraq's debts are among the postwar issues that continue to divide the United States from countries that opposed the U.S. Jed invasion. France, Germany and Russia, which led the antiwar camp, were some of Saddam's biggest and the World Bank, who were present at the talks, to determine how much money Iraq owes countries that are not members of the Paris Club of cred-itor nations, Snow said. The Paris Club's 19 mem- bers, which include the United States, are alone believed to be owed an estimated $26 billion, not including interest accrued on the debt, most of ci&clitois They have balked at US. proposals for debt forgiveness but have said they would be open to relief in the form of delayed payments. "We are continuing to try to identify all of the different conspirators that are involved in both gathering the individuals from Central America and Mexico and then smuggling them across the border," Shelby said. "We are viewing this as an organized criminal act and we are going to prosecute the entire North Utah County UNCLE Advertising Team! SAM'S ARMY NAVY t We have OUTDOOR M-- efej031 SE3? Eichel said detailed discussions on rescheduling Iraq's debts could not take place until international financial institutions have completed their debt assessments, and only once a legitimate Iraqi government" is installed in Baghdad. 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In the end, Abbas left Sharon's office early today without persuading the prime minister to accept the Battle-wear- virus to spread, the effectiveness of control measures and what remaining questions need to be answered. The message coming out of this meeting is certainly one of great hope. It's one of celebration that the measures are working, but also a call to action because we've got a lot more to do yet before we end this problem," v Ryan said in a conference call with reporters. LYON, find a way to escape from his obligations to the road map," said Ghassan JKhatih-- , the Palestinian Authoritv labor minister and a pollster. "Hell try to engage Abu Mazen on anything else in order to go to Bush and say: Wait a minute. We're working on other things,'" The Palestinians have already agreed to the terms of the road map, which would protect Israel from militants and set up a Palestinian state by 2005. 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