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Show ST OAg Hard-liner- Friday, March H. 190 ine Udilv Herald. Prnvn - World i.ih a narrow government.'- Whn the ture comes, he will have to realize he has to pass the leadership to someone else." He said the likely candidates to succeed Shamir are former Trade Minister Ariel Sliaron. Foreign Minister Moshe Arens and David Levy, the housing minister and deputy prime minister. Senior Shamir aides were not immediately available for premier was formally ousted by a ganization in the process. motion. Past prime Peres. politician ministei-- have resigned before a and former premier, appeared to er s vote was held when they appeared have the best chances of being sure of losing. asked to form a new government, Shamir remains caretaker prune Israeli reports said today. minister until a new government is But the complexities of reconcilformed, a process that could take ing demands of the religious parties, g months. factions and his allies in Tne dispute that brought down cculd force Labor and Likud relucShamir's government centered on tantly into a broad-base- d governU.S. proposals for Middle East ment or brmg about early national peace that included involving east elections. Jerusalem Arabs and Palestimans According to Maariv and the Hadashot daily, Peres has offered deported by Israel in peace talks. Labor supported the moves, but the Shas Party the Likud objected that including east important Finance Ministry in a Jerusalem Arabs could call into new government. Five of six Shas question Israel's control of Jerusa- leaders helped Labor Thursday by lem and deportees could indirectly being absent from voting. involve the Palestine Liberation Or Labor ally is Another would-b- e left-win- com- ment. Labor leader Shimon Peres, meanwhile, launched contacts to form a new government, hoping to cash in on the support from a swing religious party that 5 yielded the victory against Shamir. It was the first time an Israeli Party x 60-5- 'English Masada' marked r 1 f 1 1 Rabbi Yomtob of Joigny turned to his people and, according to William's account, told them: "We ought to prefer a glorious death to an infamous life ... for if we should fall into the hands of the enemy, we should die according to their pleasure, and amidst their mockery. Therefore, let us willingly and devoutly, with our own hands, render up to Him that life which the Creator gave to us..." First to act was a man named Josce, who killed his wife and children. Yomtob then killed him. Then each head of family killed his loved ones, and was in turn killed by Yomtob. Yomtob died last. Those who chose not to die accepted the mob's offer of life if they accepted baptism. But when they came out, they too were killed. Finally, the mob broke into York Minster, where the documents of their debts were kept, and burned the papers in the vestry. 1 - Seoul. About 2,000 students hurled hundreds of firebombs and rocks after riot police fired tear gas to block the students from marching out of Seoul National Unviersity. At Korea Unviersity, about 500 students marched out their campus after burning an effigy of the governing Democratic Liberal Party but avoided clashes. Peaceful protests were also retwo oilier campuses. from ported Government officials said Roh is expected to announce a new Cabinet on Saturday after consultations left-win- ar Thatcher recalled Ambassador Vvi i Harold Walker and ordered the expulsion of six Iraqi military trainees from Britain. Walker arrived in London this morning and said relations with Iraq had suffered "a terrible blow" in the short-terbut that the long-terdamage "depends more on the Iraqis than ourselves." The British government also announced a freeze on visits by government ministers to Iraq and canceled a trade mission. But it did not break diplomatic relations or impose economic sanctions on Iraq. Britain has nearly a $500 million trade surplus with Iraq. Britain's expulsion order against the Iraqi military trainees does not affect about 1,000 other Iraqi students in Britain. A group of opposition Labor Party lawmakers introduced a motion in the House of Commons calling on Britain and the European Community to impose economic sanctions and an arms embargo on Iraq "until the respect for human rights in that country has reached an acceptable standard." Such motions allow lawmakers to go on record with an opinion. No vote will be taken on the proposal unless it is presented as legislation. m AP Laserphuto Peasant girls cry Thursday at the monument of national hero Sandor Petoefi in Budapest. Hungarians commemorate 1848 revolt the majority faction of the form- BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -Tof people gathered Thursday to commemorate the 1848 democratic revolution er Communist Party that housands dis- banded in October 1989, is expected to do poorly in the elections. Last year, more than 100,000 against Austrian rule, and some politicians used the occasion to campaign for Hungary's first free elections in 40 years. The anniversary has in recent years become a symbol of resistance against Communist rule. But the Communists will not have a monopoly on power foleleclowing the parliamentary tions March 25, and the 15,000 who turned out for the anniversary in Budapest was a much smaller number than in past years. Communist supporters were down to a trickle. The Hungarian Socialist Party, demonstrators surged through the streets of the capital on the anniversary of the revolution against Austrian rule, the first truly legal opposition rally on that date. called for democof the Soviet occupation troops. Participants racy and the withdrawal These demands have since been fulfilled to a considerable extent, with the coming elections and a Red Army withdrawal that began March 12. Only about 2,500 people con supporter and legislator Reuven Rivlin said on the radio. "Today we have to unite around une person who can lead us to forming a government." Rivlin said supporters met Thursday niht after the vote but no decisions were made Ievy has been an ally of Sharon, the retired general who quit in Kebruan to protest the govenunent's peace policies. Shamir supporter and Minister of Arab Affairs Ehud Olmert also hinted there was talk of Shanur stepping down. Peres told reporters he was confident Labor would lead the next government and would move toward peace. verged on the National Museum to listen to a speech by Imre Pozsgay, the top reformer in the y Socialist Party. After the rally he repeated his party's pledge that it is "prepared to honor all consequences of the elections." He predicted his party "will be among the top four parties and it will be a decisive force in parliament." A Gallup poll published Monday gave the Hungarian Democratic Forum, one of the most influential opposition groups, 21 percent of the popular vote. The Free Democrats had 20.3 percent, the Smallholders Party 15.7 percent and the Socialist Party 8 percent. low-ke- Government-runewspapers in Iraq today reported that authorities n plan a mass demonstration BONN, West Germany (AP) -The government said today it would producing poison gas, but Libya insists the factory was making pharmaceuticals. West Germany not tolerate threats against Germans living in Libya following a blaze at a suspected chemical weapons plant there. The Libyan leader, Col. Moam-ma- r Gadhafi, said an investigation was under way to determine whether West German intelligence agents had anything to do with Wednesday's fire at the Rabta plant, which suffered extensive damage. West Germany denied responsibil- eventually acknowledged that West German companies helped build the plant. West German's ARD television network has said its Cairo office received a statement from a previously unknown group of Libyan dissidents claiming responsibility for the blaze. "The federal government decisively rejects the Libyan attempt to blame the Federal Republic of Germany for the fire at Ratba," Chrobog said today. "We especially denounce any attempt to rouse up Ubyans against us." A day earlier, a demonstration by Libyans briefly blocked access to the West German embassy in Tripoli. The West German Foreign Ming Liistry summoned a byan diplomat in Bonn and formally protested the action. West Germany is one of Libya's biggest trading partners. ity. Juergen Chrobog, chief spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said he knew of no specific threats against West Germany or its citizens, but an angry crowd gathered in front of the West Germany Embassy in Tripoli on Thursday. "We expect there will be restraint from all threats against German citizens in Libya," Chrobog said. The United States and West Germany say the plant had begun high-rankin- mm mm mm with his two fellow governing party Kim Young-saleaders and Kim Jong-pil- . A Cabinet change has long been anticipated after Roh merged his party with two centrist opposition groups, led by the two Kims, to form a giant conservative party last month. Government officials have indicated a sweeping Cabinet change would be needed to inject "fresh air" into national politics following the merger. They had said a change could be made after the National Assembly ended a special session today. Ixcal newspapers, quoting unidentified government sources, reported the reorganization would of probably affect nearly the Cabinet. The national news agency, Yon-hasaid with up to 18 posts likely to be affected, the change would be the largest since Roh took office. Another "Iraq will not bow to any form of pressure or extortion and will pay no attention to any measures taken by British authorities," one ot the state-ru- n wrote. newspapers, Australia's foreign minister, Gar-etEvans, also called the hanging "barbaric" but today ruled out h sanctions on Iraq. Western European governments, press and human rights groups also denounced Iraq. The United States said it regretted that pleas for clemency had gone unheeded. Bazoft, an Iranian-bor- n reporter who worked for the weekly newspaper The Observer, was arrested while trying to check out reports of an explosion at a Iraqi military complex. Bazoft, who had lived in Britain since 1975, was convicted and sentenced by a military court Saturday after a closed trial. Bazoft's colleagues in London insisted he was not a spy, just an enthusiastic reporter going after a scoop. Arab governments kept silent on the execution. Even Jordan's King Hussein, who joined with the Palestine Liberation Organization in seeking clemency for Bazoft, would not condemn Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In a development late Thursday night, the British domestic news agency Press Association quoted unidentified British government sources as saying Bazoft had served a jail term in Britain for robbery. The report quoted the sources as saying that Bazoft was convicted at the Crown Court at Northampton in central England in August 1981 of robbing a savings and loan office of $760. goverment official in chemical weapons in a war against Bonn said on condition of anonymi- Chad. Charges by the United States that German companies helped build the Rabta plant caused a major scaninternational outcry against the dal in West Germany a little more than a year ago. West Germany at plant. h first denied the U.S. claims, but Foreign Minister Genscher had recommended the later acknowledged them. U.N. Security Council look into any Gadhafi insisted that the heavily chemical weapons production at the guarded plant in Rabta, 60 miles southwest of Tripoli, was designed Rabta plant. The Bonn official said Genscher to produce only pharmaceuticals. also sent letters to Secretary of But he said Libya would pay milState James A. Baker III and to the lions of dollars to any company foreign ministers of France and willing to build it a chemical weapBritain pressing for international ons facility. pressure to close the Rabta plant. For more than 14 months, the United States has accused Libya of using the plant to make chemical weapons, including mustard and nerve gases. 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While the Thatcher government stopped short of imposing economic sanctions, opposition lawmakers called for sanctions and an arms embargo to protest the hanging of Farzad Bazoft, 31, who Iraq said was spying for Britain and Israel. y 1 Jew-hatre- Anti-Jewis- ultra-Orthodo- rules out sanctions Eiffel anti-Semit- ic x the Agudat Israel faction, which voted against Likud. Hadashot said this party may be assigned the Housing and Welfare ministries. The two religious parties hold a critical 11 seats in the Parliament, which when added to facg 15 held by Arab and tions, would give tlie a majority of 65. Likud holds 40 seals. The threatdominance ened end of its in government touched off new infighting in tlie fractious party, with supporters of Ievy urging the reShamir as moval of the party chairman. "The reality shows that as long as we don't unite around one person it will be fateful for Likud," Ijtvv British ambassador leaves Iraq; Thatcher J YORK, England (AP) - A ram's horn sounded and a cantor's melancholy psalms went out from the mound where, 800 years ago today, the Jews of York committed mass suicide to escape an mob. It is sometimes called "The English Masada," this most infamous d incident of in British history. Like the Jews who killed themselves on the desert fortress of Masada rather than fall slaves to Rome, the memory of York Jewry's fate has survived through the ages, still strong enough eight centuries later to draw several hundred Jews and a handful of Christians to a memorial service Thursday at the place where it happened. The service opened a four-da- y program of lectures, concerts and exhibitions organized by Jewish and Christian groups and the city of York to commemorate the slaughter of March 16, 1190, No one knows exactly how many died, but historians reckon the death toll was about 150. The story was told in compelling detail by William of Newburgh, a contemporary historian who lived near the northeast England city. h feeling grew in England with the religious fervor of the Crusades, the attempt by European Christians to win control of the Holy Land from the Moslems. By March 1190, York was close to exploding. Egged on by the local noblemen who thought they could clear their debts to Jewish moneylenders by killing them, a mob set out to hunt down the Jews. The Jews fled to a castle, where they were entitled to royal protection. The mob surrounded the fortress. The constable went out of the castle, perhaps to reason with the crowd. When he returned, the frightened Jews would not let him back in. He called in the sheriff, who ordered the door broken down. The mob read this to mean royal assent to a pogrom, while the Jews assumed all hope was lost. 7 push to remove Shamir as party leader s JERUSALEM (AP) Hard-liner- s todav launched effete throw caretaker Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir as leader of the right-win- g Likud bloc after a parvote topliamentary pled his governing coalition. The Vediot Ahronot daily said Shamir was considering retirement from political Me following Thursday's defeat. Another newspaper, Maariv, quoted the premier as saying "I see no reason to resign." Israel radio said Likud leaders met in Shamir's office this morning for a discussion of the party's future. Sahi Alnegbi, a Likud member of parliament, said on Israel radio: "Mr. Shamir will have to resign eventually because he cannot form I Sandy: Soutn Towne Center 743 East 9400 Soutn mar Ofiden: Ogden City tali Uyton: layton khk wa.. 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