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Show ige A14 THE DAILY HERALD, (www hcnldratri.com). Pope VATICAN CITY (AP) - 18, 1999 inmate Holy Land ft planus it for propaganda. Vatican advance team will go to Iraq on Saturday to lay plans for a possible papal pilgrimage in January to the Iraqi city of Ur, the Vatican missionary news service Fides said. Ur is the traditional birthplace of i Abraham. The pope's visit to the Holy tand will take place in the last 10 days of March a month before Easter and will probably include stops in Jerusalem, would use Pope John Paul II will make a millennium pilgrimage to the Holy Land in March a visit that fulfills a dream even as.it thrusts the frail pontiff into the heart of Middle East political and religious tensions. The Vatican is also pushing ahead on an even more politically fraught trip to Iraq. The United States, Britain and Iraqi dissidents have opposed the trip, fearing Saddam Hussein long-hel- Provo, Utah, Thursday, November Nazareth j and Bethlehem, Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe told reporters at the Vatican on A d Wednesday. port the spirit of peace and reconciliation between religions and the peoples of the Middle Effie said East," an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman. Israeli leaders "welcome this visit," Prime Minister Ehud Barak said. Still, even with the blessings of both sides, the pontiff will have to step carefully through the treacherous landscape of religious and political conflicts. Arab-Israe- li war. "We all hope that this visit is going to reinvigorate and sup mapping problem unresolved In Jerusalem, a holy city to Jews, Christians and Muslims, both Israelis and Palestinians will see the pope's visit as legitimizing their claims of sovereignty. Palestinians have long seen the Vatican as sympathetic to their claims to the city's eastern which they want as a sector u, Israel and Palestinian officials welcomed news of the visit, the first papal trip to the Holy Land since Pope Paul VI entered Jerusalem in 1964 before Israel took the whole of the city in the 1967 Palestine pilgrimage ARURA, West Bank (AP) This hilltop West,jPahk village is the closest" thing to nowhere, a hthour's! drive from the neare'iicity on a narrow, winding 4jontainroad. Even the locals ' adijjil not much happens here. like Arura lie at fut places of the most seriousj quarrel yet between the Palestinians and the nearly --i government of i Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak one that has set off a volley of angry accusations and held up the handover of West Bank territory to the J capital foi a future state. Last year, the Vatican's secretary of 6tate called Israeli rule there ap illegal military occupation. , Idaysi " - o Palestinians this week. ,61 J 117 - , , n rj l. Is' t f, Israel was to have turned I over 5 percent of the West 1 Bank on Monday, bringing s of the terrinearly full under or partial8 tory Palestinian control. Landff Handovers like this one are' , meant to build confidence and goodwill as the two sides hold ' " 1 T. 1 1 Vi UI.Y two-fifth- ,y s intensive talks aimed at yielding an overall;''3 final-statu- 7 PIECE 0 1 0 (certificate) With purchase of $199 or more. Offer not valid with any other offers or discounts. 7 PIECE FORMAL Mission style made of oa irj jmL iKHri ? highlights 42" x 64" extends t0 82 with leaf. Includes, 4 side and 2 arm rhflirs 4 . t lHir I I ' JEWELR1T II J y il BJjr t l: o 7ffM 1 .' AltMOIREr . 1 JJ , Cherry or Oakjf niiuire wiui nipt mirror, I rnmnarr. 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Arura was one of the areas designated by Israel for handover on Monday an offer spurned by Arafat, who instead sought control of sev-- . eral densely populated sub-'urbs of Jerusalem. ' The village, located about ,r ,. halfway between the main West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus, is too far from either to provide any territorial contiguity. Even its own surrounding olive groves would be left out of the handover, municipal officials said. ' "They want to give us islands," said Arura's dentist, Naji Barghouti, pausing Wednesday on the sleepy "f main street. "But we have to 7 r think of the big picture." Like others in the village of 3,000, he said he was eager to see it come under full Palestinian control but not at the cost of areas deemed more crucial to sketching the " outlines of a future state. Israel, citing security con- - C'"J cerns and past precedent, says' 9 , it alone has the right to draw'9 up maps for West Bank with-,drawals. 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As the dispute has hardened over; the past few days, it has fueled Palestinian fears that Israel will strike a stance when it comes to the shape of their state. ; "Israel is trying to create a precedent for the coming s phase and for the talks that the map be ready final-statu- " . final-statu- and that the Palestinians should simply agree to it," said senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. |