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Show The Daily Herald Tuesday, October 15, 1996 Bfisfo Time not healing all wounds in Kobe Meeting Netanyahu-Arafa- t to meet soon assures' By ERIC TALMADGE Mubarak Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM AP) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat are expected to meet soon to announce an agreement on Israel's puilout from the West Bank town of Hebron, officials said today. A Palestinian source said Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan plan to go to the West Bank town of Jericho on Tuesday and meet with Netanyahu and U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross. However, an Israeli official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said there were no plans for Netanyahu to join Hussein and Arafat in Jericho. The Israeli official said an summit was expected soon. Its purpose would be not to negotiate but to announce an accord, the official said. Foreign Minister David Levy said agreement on the issue was expected within days. When city KOBE, Japan workers broke through the window of Masao Yamashita's tiny room at a settlement for people left homeless by last year's earthquake, they found him dressed in w inter clothes, a TV guide from late November open at his side. He had been dead for 10 months. Though officials here are proud of the speed with which they have managed to rebuild their shattered city right dow n to the punctuality of virtually resurevery train and subway recting shattered lives has proved a far more daunting task. Now here is this problem more v isible than in the neighborhood where Yamashita died, a complex of barrack-lik- e temporary houses, one of dozens that dot the bustling landscape of Kobe and its suburbs. Nearly two years after the quake, more than 80,000 people still call these settlements home. "It's hard to get away from the loneliness," Masashi Fukushima said as he sat cross-legge- d on the floor of his cramped, stuffy room just a few rows down from where Yamashita died of an alcohol-relate- d liver ailment. "Many people don't have jobs or anywhere to go," Fukushima said, whose door opens to an amusement park across the street. "They don't mingle much." Those who die alone and unnoticed in the housing settlements are numerous enough that Japan's media have a pat phrase for them "kodoku shi," the lonely deaths. Yamashita, the papers noted, was lonely death No. 03. "He was still young, just 38. and it was a real shock for us," said Masayuki Takahashi, a Kobe official who oversees the city's temporary housing project. Takahashi said that soon after Yamashita's body was found Sept. 29, Kobe officials began a check of the more than 12,000 people living alone in the settlements. All of the deaths have been of natural causes, and about half of people over 65. More than 6,300 people were killed and 300,000 forced to seek refuge in emergency shelters by Arafat-Netanya- Fighters, troops duel near Kabul By MARIAM SAMI Associated Press Writer i 'sips :V-v- ; ir v.. - - - ' " '.-.--- I Wei-ma- vo ; . v President CAIRO. Egvpt Hosni Mubarak of Egvpt said Israel's president assured him today that Israel would live up .to its agreements with Palestinians. Ezer Weiman. the Israeli president, came to Cairo to snujoth with Egvpt. rocky relations despite strong criticism at home that he was overstepping ,!he bounds of his ceremonial office. In Israel. Prime Minister Benn jamin Netanyahu said today did not have the mandate to negotiate peace, but added he hoped the trip to Egypt "will heJp in the bilateral relations." Late today, Palestinian and Israeli officials said Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would meet soon to announce an agreement on Israel's puilout from Hebron, the last Palestinian city in the West Bank under Israeli control. A Palestinian source said the meeting would be held Tuesday. But an Israeli official, also speaking on condition of anonymjty. said the date had not yet been set. Weiman came to Cairo after Mubarak assailed Netanyahu .for moving slowly on negotiations w ith the Palestinians and for opening a new entrance to a tourist tunnel at a site holy to Muslims arjd Jews. That last action set off Palestinian riots and clashes tlat killed 78 people. T, After meeting with Weiznian, Mubarak promised to keep backing the Middle East pc process. "The president assured me they are honoring the agreements and (they) are going to be implemented." Mubarak said. "I told Qmi that Egypt w ill continue to support the peace process as much as we can until ... peace prevails all over ' the whole area." Weiman said he believes ,lhe Arabs want Israel to go forward with the peace process and that Israel intends lo do so. "I am sure, as I said to President Mubarak, that the government of Israel ... will do honestly all its best to achieve peace vvijh regard to the Palestinians." he '.! added. ( Weiznian said Mubarak gave him a message for Netanyahu but . did not sav w hat it was. V V . ; ld I KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Taliban fighters fired rockets and machine guns today to combat the former government troops that have brought the battlefield to Kabul's northern outskirts. The capital's new Taliban rulers barred people from leaving the city, but the artillery blasts and gunfire could be heard from northern suburbs as fighting raged just 10 miles away. The few travelers who reached the capital from villages to the north said fighting was heavy along a key northern road, but the Taliban still controlled the impor- tant military air base at Baghram, 30 miles from Kabul. - . Since being routed from Kabul by invading Taliban soldiers two ; weeks ago, troops loyal to former Shah Mas-- ; ; military chief Ahmed sood have been waging an effective guerrilla-typ- e war north of the "capital. T," They have been hitting Taliban t$o!diers simultaneously at several , places along the northern road, cutting the Taliban defense lines and trapping hundreds of Taliban - soldiers, the travelers said. ; a. r the Jan. 17, 1995, quake, the most serious disaster Japan has suffered in decades. But Kobe's recovery since has been surprisingly rapid. SARAJEVO, (AP) TTT They waited more than four years for the bus. Now it has come, and brothers Remzija and Nurija Strujic are reunited. Remzija was waiting Monday when a us from Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital, pulled into the Bosnian capital's bus station for the first time since April 1992. On board was the brother, Sarajevan's younger whom he hadn't seen in five years. Tears rolled down their cheeks as they embraced. "Welcome" was the only word that Remzija could utter between shell-shatter- town, and masses of rr of the bus route is another tangible sign that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose nationalist rhetoric inspired Bosnian Serbs to rebel in 1992, has changed tactics. Milosevic earlier this month agreed to recognize Bosnia, cutting off and infuriating Bosnian Serbs' nationalist leadership. Milosevic also has agreed to normalize economic relations with the Sarajevo government, even though Bosnian Serbs still balk at participating in it. The last buses from Sarajevo to Belgrade left 4 12 years ago under sniper and mortar fire. d NAIU3AL IS" Victiftis, DESIGN APR. Offer available lo qualified credit applications. ;s. No transaction lees. Contact us for more details. w ere often tin) intimidated by their abusers to tell the judge why they needed protection until a Davis County program was created two and a half years ago. But the victims of abuse don't stand alone any more. 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Getting everyone out of the temporary housing, they argue, is one of the best ways to get them back on the road to recovery. But city official Takahashi said a high percentage of the residents are old. sick or poor, which has made the return to the world outside their settlement gates more difficult. Younger couples, meanwhile, are frequently teetering on the verge of destitution because of heavy mortgage payments on homes destroyed by the quake. men at Unemployed middle-age- d the settlements say they are shunned as too old by prospective employers, or are too depressed to even seek work. Department stores are once again full of g(xds and shoppers, the tourists have returned to China- the tears. Bosnia-Herzegovi- With the cold front looming, there's no better time to buy a new Carrier WeatherMaker 2 stage energy efficient natural gas furnace and there's no easier way to pay for it than with our Retail Credit financing Call today! Based on 17.88 roads every morning at rush hour. City planners are encouraged by the fact that the number of temporary housing unit residents First bus arrives in Sarajevo fprwin WreThe Inside Fukushima speaks about his life nearly two years after the devastating earthquake in Kobe, Japan. Masashi Fukushima picks up a bottle of stomach medicine in his cramped, stuffy room, which is part of temporary housing for quake victims in Kobe. His room is just a few rows down from where Masao Yamashita, who died alone and was unnoticed for 10 months, was found dead Sept. 29. door-to-do- :Suharto ignores prize in speech 1 -- Stopping his bicycle on a road running through barrack-lik- e temporary housing, Masashi 1 ; Presi- DILI, Indonesia (AP) dent Suharto met today with East ; Timor's Nobel laureate bishop at a public function but made no mention of the prize or the 2 year-old conflict arising from Indonesia's ,1 military occupation. In his third visit to East Timor since 1976, Suharto inaugurated a giant marble statue of Jesus as a 'I sign of religious tolerance in predominately Muslim Indonesia as ' well as five infrastructure projects. In a speech Suharto made no I mention of the independence ! movement in East Timor. Nor did ; Suharto mention the Nobel Peace ; prize awarded last week to Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and 'former guerrilla leader, Jose Ramos-Hortleading critics of rule. Indonesian , Indonesia invaded East Timor in late 1975. and annexed it in midst of a civil war that ended 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule. AP Photos "lfl B54 EAST 100 NORTH. PAYSON J it was about Nelda and her free legal sen ice for victims of abuse. f J SMiHnlup 1 iiin |