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Show DAILY HERALD . Thursday, September 16, 2004 Israel Iran Continued from AAl Continued from AAl expect Israel to remove large Israeli population centers in the West Bank a statement seen by Sharon as backing for his plan to keep large West Bank settlement blocs in any future deal with the Palestinians: Sharon said he will abide by his disengagement plan, not the road map. Asked by Yediot how disengagement differs from a proposal by a former Israeli opposition leader, Amram Mitzna, to withdraw from Gaza to break the stalemate with the Palestinians, Sharon said: "Mitzna suggested something different ... to continue dismantling settlements based on the road map. "This would have brought Israel to a most difficult situation. I didn't agree to this. Today, we are also not following the road map. I am not ready for this," he said. Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Sharon confirmed Palestinian fears that the disengagement plan is a ploy to cement Israel's control over large areas of the West Bank. U.S. and European Union officials have told the Palestinians that they would only back disengagement as part of the road . Wednesday, leading to an adjournment of the meeting of the IAEA's board of governors until Friday to allow back-roonegotiations and consultations with capitals. Still, copies of both the US. and European drafts made available in full to The Associated Press showed both . sides favoring some kind of deadline for Iran to commit to a new freeze on enrichment and at least an implicit threat of ' referral to the Security Council if Tehran remained defiant Iran is not prohibited from enrichment under its obligations to the Nuclear Nonprolif-eratio- n Treaty but has faced mounting international pressure to suspend the technology which can be used both to make nuclear arms and generate electricity as a gesture to dispel suspicions it is interested in making weapons. Last week, Iran confirmed an IAEA report that it planned to convert more than 40 tons of raw uranium into uranium hexafhioride, the feed stock for enrichment. Even before that, international concerns grew because of perceptions that a suspension of enrichment and related activities was never fully enacted and had eroded since Tehran's pledge a year ago. An IAEA report has given Iran some good marks for co- -' operation with the most recent V m lit , 'A J MOUSSAAssociated HATEM Press a child under the watch of an Israeli tank after her house was destroyed in an army operation in the village ofAl Mugrakha, south of the Jewish settlement ofNetzarim in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. A Palestinian woman holds centage points. In tins West Bank city of Nablus, troops surrounded a building where fugitives were holed up, and a gun battle erupted, Palestinian witnesses said. Five armed men from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent group with ties to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, were killed in the fighting. An girl living nearby was also shot dead, her family said. The girl's uncle said the girl was shot toward map. According to polls published Wednesday in Yediot and Maariv dailies, 58 percent of Israelis support Sharon's disend gagement plan, and about oppose it. Both surveys had margins of error of 4.4 per- one-thir- mouth, the call to song reached as far as the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, where restaurant chef Romaldo Martinez, 45, of Acapulco, sang in Spanish, "all that I can remember" of the anthem while preparing a special Independence Day menu at the busy Casa Mexicana restaurant. "I am happy, and I wish I was home right now," Martinez said. In Colorado, where Hispanics make up 18 percent of the population, 80 people gathered at the Mexican consulate in Denver to sing and cheer "Viva Mexico!" Consulate workers handed out small Mexican flags. The anthem campaign, sponsored by a nonprofit media council and endorsed by the government, called on Mexicans no matter where they were in the world tq stop what they were doing and sing. The singing of the anthem came as Mexico tried to mend social and political divisions that have prompted Fox to call for the country to come together. "Mexico's destiny depends today on unity, of the joining of wills to triumph in these battles and create a complete, just and inclusive country," he said Tues Anthem Continued from AAl campaign, and spent the entire song chatting with a friend. "I've got to be honest. I don't even know the words very well," he said. While government workers were handed copies of the anthem's lyrics and encouraged to sing, many Mexicans in the capital seemed to be too busy to take part. "We just got robbed, and we are trying to get someone to lend us 10 pesos ($1) so we can get to the park," Juan Carlos Hetshel said, passing the brass band as the anthem began. Others welcomed the patriotic show. Rosario Garcia, a student, said the song "is our Mexican identity." "Recently, the country seems fragmented, and it's good to remember our country's independence," she said as workers prepared decorations and stages to celebrate the country's Sept. 16 declaration of independence from Spain. Spread largely by word of V , the end of the fighting, after most of the soldiers had left and residents were going outside. The Israeli brigade commander in the area, identified only as Col. Yuval, said his forces did not fire as they withdrew, even when coming under Palestinian fire, suggesting that the girl was not killed by his men. In the West Bank town of v Jenin, Israeli undercover troops killed four Palestinians in a raid day during a ceremony at the National Palace. Many have become angry over Fox's perceived shortfalls, crime and poverty, joining massive marches and calling for an end to corruption. While they elected Fox in 2000, ending 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, some Mexicans have complained about the bickering and political infighting of Mexi- - , co's broadened democracy. In some ways, Mexico finds itself in a situation similar to that when the anthem was written 150 years ago by an unMexican known poet. The song was chosen during a national contest the government hoped would unite a country defeated and divided, in part by the loss of half of its territory to the United States in of a ckr repair shop. The army said six fugitives were in the building, armed with assault rifles and pistols. It said four of the fugitives were killed and two arrested. The wanted men did not fire on the soldiers, the army said. Palestinians said one of those killed was an Al Aqsa fugitive, and the three others were bystanders. ' ' phase of an agency probe into nearly two decades of covert nuclear activities that came to light only two years ago. But ' the report also said Iran must do more to banish all suspicions it harbors nuclear weapons ambitions. Mousavian referred to that report in arguing there was no need to demand a further , : freeze.. "All major necessary confidencmeasures have e-building been taken by Iran, and today the agency has full control and supervision," he said. "That's why we believe that (a) one year suspension is good enough." Mousavian downplayed the significance of differences on the language of any resolution, suggesting the rift was more over style than substance. "They have the same opinion, but the Americans are in a hunyfor a harsh decision and the Europeans believe in dialogue," he said. That view was echoed by former President Hashemi the closest figure to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatol-la- h AH Khamenei, and head of the Expediency Council, a powerful arbitrating body within the ruling establishment "America and the Euro-- , peans follow the same objective: denying Iran mastery over nuclear technology," told state televisioa The Americans say that impudently, while Europeans say Raf-sanja- Raf-sanja- ni (it) diplomatically." Participants receive breakfast, snacks, lunch, bag and a chance to win great prizes. . . . . --u memofyVal.co4 TkioflBpwdAlrtinirt 1848. 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