| Show Standard-Examin- Worid er Wednesday May 19 1999 Palestinians put heat on Israeli leader early for him to tackle the question of Jewish construction in east Jerusalem because he won’t take office for several weeks Barak has consistently said he would keep Jerusalem urnted under Israeli control - a position he repeated in his victory speech early Tuesday after his landslide win over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "It was a negative message and a bad start” Nabil Amr the Palestinian minister of parliamentary affairs declared today Palestinians want Jerusalem’s traditionally Arab eastern sector to be the capital of their future state While sidestepping the immediate question of new settlement-building Barak’s party said his government intends to implement the Wye River accord by year’s end Barak talked Tuesday with President Clinton who also held what the Palestinians described as an “important” discussion with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat The AssocsaJad Press JERUSALEM - Israel’s rival religious and secular parties vied today for a place in the government of Prime Minister-ele-ct Ehud Barak who reached out to world leaders to assure them the Arab-Israe- li peace process would move forward ThsAsaodaied Press KOW HIS PRIME MINISTER: Russian President Boris Yeitsin (right) and then Russian Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin are shown during a ceremony earlier this month Yeltsin’s choice for prime minister gains easy OK The Associated Press MOSCOW - Sergei Stepashin was easily approved as Russia’s new prime minister today after he warned lawmakers that Russia needed immediate and courageous policies to rescue its battered economy and avoid social unrest The State Duma the lower Duma failed last week to launch impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin Lawmakers clearly did not want another confrontation with the president None of the major factions chamber of parliament voted voiced objections to Stepashin’s 5 to approve Stepashin fol- confirmation during brief hearlowing the dismissal last week of ings before the vote Even some his popular predecessor Yevgeny of the Communists said they Primakov The vote count was would support the new prime adjusted slightly after glitches minister were reported in the electronic “1 expected a lot of difficult voting and angry questions today but It took the usually hostile Du- there were none” Stepashin said ma just three hours to debate and Duma Communist leader approve the confirmation of a Gennady Zyuganov said after the man who is a top loyalist of Presvote that Stepashin would be unident Boris Yeltsin der Yeltsin’s thumb “If Stepash301-5- Stepashin who headed the nation’s police and internal security forces as interior minister appeared relieved when the result flashed up on a big electronic screen in the Duma He thanked legislators and said he hoped that months of bruising political confrontation were over “This probably means one thing: We’re all united by pain for our motherland and our people and the wish to see our coun- - though sig- hood “God willing we will have our state with Jerusalem as its capital by the end of this year” Rahim Tayyeb Abdel of the Palessecretary-genertinian Authority said at the opening of a religious school in al try finally become normal civilized rich prosperous and decent” he said The approval came after the Communist-dominate- d Palestinians naled that any honeymoon with Barak be might be brief renewing pressure for speedy state- in disobeys he and his team will be immediately dismissed” he told reporters Yeltsin met with Stepashin for two hours after the confirmation congratulating him for his Duma victory Russian news agencies said “There is much work to do the tasks for the government to accomplish are not simple” Yeltsin told Stepashin according to ITAR-Tas- s the Gaza Strip today The Palestinians are already urging Barak to halt Jewish settlement construction in Jerusalem whose status is one of the thorniest issues dividing Israel and the Palestinians Bulldozers were at work again today in the contested Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ras and Har US-broker- Homa Barak’s camp said it was too Key Israeli team backs south Lebanon pullout have died in south Lebanon since a “security zone” was established in 1985 to protect Israel’s northern communities Backers of withdrawal say the deaths outweigh the risk to Israel’s northern border The Associated Press JERUSALEM - 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