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Show Mm HaRt ( K THE DAILY III R KID. Prwo. I lah, Wednesday (Klwbrr 23. 1V Security angers French ores ident By SAID GHAZAU Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Frustrated by security, French President Jacques Chirac threatened Tuesday to cut short his v isit to Israel and shouted at an Israeli security chief during a walk in Jerusalem's Old City. "I'm starting to have had enough of this." Chirac said in French before turning to the security thief and saying, in English: " This is not a method, this is a provocation." "What do you want, me to go hack to my plane and go back to France? Is that what you want? Let them go. let them do." Chirac said, his voice raised and his faced Hushed in anger. Chirac was referring to photog-i;nher- s and Palestinian passers-b- y fio were trying to get close to him in one of the narrow alleys of the Old City's outdoor market. They were being blocked by Israeli jKjIicemen. several rows deep, who hod linked arms in front of Chirac. Chirac's spokeswoman. Catherine Colonna. said the president Irjlged an official complaint with !iij hosts over the behavior of the serurity guards. heavy-hande- d Chirac met later in the day ith Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who apologized. "I want to say we are very sorry this happened." Netanyahu said during a luncheon for Chirac. "It was done for a good cause to protect a friend." Chirac accepted the apology and hinted again that France was interested in a more active role in Mideast peace talks. "If there is anything I can do to promote a better understanding between the different partners in this region, I will do it with all my heart," he told reporters. "My only ambition is to be a soldier of peace." Netanyahu spokesman David n played down the confrontation. "I am sure the incident, whatever it was. is not going to harm (our) basically friendly and warm relations," he said. The tense tour reflected the overall tone of Chirac's visit to Israel. He irritated Israel's hard-lin- e government Monday, the first day of his visit, when he called for the creation of a Palestinian state and a return of the Golan Heights to Syria. Israel captured the strategic plateau from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War. On Wednesday, Chirac was to address the Palestinian legislative council, the first foreign leader to do so. The speech w as seen as another gesture in support of Palestinian "I am sure the incident, whatever it was, is not going to harm (our) basically friendly and warm relations." David Bar-Illa- n, Netanyahu spokesman Bar-Illa- independence. Chirac began his tour Tuesday at the Old City's New Gate, then walked to the Church of the Holy built over the site Sepulcher where tradition says Jesus was buried before reaching the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, a site sacred to Muslims and Jews. During the trip, Chirac stopped several times to talk with the Israeli security guards around him. Palestinian merchants standing in the doorways of their shops were quickly flanked by Israeli policemen as Chirac approached, and some were pushed back. At Al Aqsa, Chirac was received by Hassan Tahboub, minister of religious affairs in Yasser Arafat's Cabinet. . "We don't want anything from the world. We just want peace in the region lo prevail," Tahboub told the president. Chirac viewed the Dome of the Rock Mosque, one of two shrines in the compound, but did not enter the house of w orship. The Al Aqsa compound, know n to the Jews as the Temple Mount, is the most incendiary spot in the conflict. Last month. Israel's decision to open an entrance to a tourist tunnel along the compound set off three days of riots by Palestinians. Seventy-nine people were killed in gun battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian police. Chirac donned a black skullcap Tuesday, the traditional Jewish head covering for men, and visited the Western Wall, which runs alongside the Al Aqsa compound and is Judaism's holiest site. The Wall is the last remnant of the Jewish Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. Israeli-Palestini- Settler throws hot tea on Israeli legislator amid 94,000 Palestinians id' Hebron, the last Palestinian city under Israeli control. jf A HEBRON, West Bank Israeli Prime Minister Ben, Jewish settler threw hot tea in the insistence on); face of Israeli legislator Yael jamin Netanyahu's better security j negotiating Day an Tuesday as the lawmaker the settlers hat; toured Hebron to show support for arrangements for in Israel's promised.! an Israeli troop withdrawal from caused delays troop pullback from the city. the city. Earlier Tuesday, 30 women sett 1 Dayan, daughter of the late tiers protested against the planned Israeli war hero Moshe Dayan, handover of most of the city to) was treated at the scene for light Palestinian control, holding up; bums on her neck and chest. signs saying "Hebron today,. The incident took place in Jerusalem tomorrow, and the day downtown Hebron, near a Jewish after?" ?5 seminary. A group of settlers shoutSettlers claim their lives will be ed "shame on you," as Dayan and in danger if armed Palestinian ; fellow peace activists marched in police are deployed nearby. support of a troop pullback. Later, hundreds of Hebron resi- Dayan said that at some point, dents rallied Tuesday for the" two settlers walked up to her and Israeli troop redeployment and lis-- 'i asked if she wcuid like a cup of tened to speeches from Palestinian tea. "I said gladly, and he threw it and Israeli Arab legislators. at my face and quite hot The Hebron redeployment was j ' chest." slated for last March, but was ; "We have returned to the worst delayed by Israel's previous gov- sort of violence, a year after (the emment after a series of deadly assassination of Yitzhak) Rabin," Palestinian suicide bombings i inside Israel in February and Dayan told Israel Radio. About 450 Jewish settlers live March. f, By NASSER SHIYOUKHf Associated Press Writer Yeltsin foe elected governor By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer MOSCOW After three years on the sidelines of Russian politics, Boris Yeltsin's rebellious president has won a provincial governor's seat in a landslide, results showed Monday. who led a Alexander Rutskoi failed 1993 uprising against Yeltsin got 78.9 percent of Sunday's vote in the Kursk region, some 285 miles south of Moscow. Incumbent Vasily Shuteyev a Yeltsin appointee received a paltry 17.9 percent, and two other contestants finished with less than percent each, election officials said. Local elections taking place across Russia this fall are especially important because the governors make up the upper house of parliament. Until now, they have been ex-vi- 1 mainly Yeltsin appointees, and have usually complied with the president's policies. Now, however, the governors must be popularly elected. Rut- -' skoi, whose previous efforts to ; form a political movement failed j to catch fire, is among the mos prominent Yeltsin foes to win tregional office. He was cleared for the race only1 last week by the Supreme Court; which overturned a ruling by thtj ; regional electoral commission thaj j Rutskoi failed to meet residency requirements. The regional legisla-- j f ture refused to put off the vote to give him more time to campaign. 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