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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Monday, November 30, 1998 Prisoner Issue Causes Rift Arafat Hopes for Palestinian In Palestinian-Israeli Talks Statehood in the Coming Year Leaderis in Washington to drum up aid, meet with Clinton THE to beits capital.” ‘The questionsof Jerusalem and Palestinian statehoodare twoofthe mostexplosive issues that the Israelis and Palestiniansstill have to 2 kle in permanent status talks, which have ASSOCIATED PRI WASHINGTON Yasser Arafat said Sunday he hopes 1999 will be “the year of the independent Palestinian state’ and urged PresidentClinton to help him supportpeace in the Middle East. Constant U.S. attention is crucial, the Palestinianleadersaid, because “there are enemies just resumed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasthreatenedto annex huge chunksof Palestinian landif Arafat declares a state next May. The Clinton administration has cautioned againstunilateral acts byeitherside. ‘Asked lateraboutthe dangers of declaring a state. Arafat said the Oslo peace accord reached in September1993gives him the right to doit after the interim periodexpires in May of peacein more thanoneplace. We have to be vigilant in protecting this peace,” he said Arafat is scheduled to meet Clinton at the White House today. ‘The president plans in two weeks to visit Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He will address the Palestinian National Council andoversee implementation ofa critical elementof the Wye River peace accord. Daley said he hoped today’s conference, which will be attended byofficials from more than 40 countries, will stimulate the private charter calling for Israel's destruction. Arafat is in Washington to attend an international donors’ conference today that is expected to boost U.S. aid to the Palestinians beyond the $500 million delivered over the past five years andto get other wealthy countries to kick in moreas well Fiveyears ago, sector to be moreactive in investing in Palestinian areas. promote financial prosperity in Gaza and the region. $2.3 billion was pledged at a 1am committed to helping Chairman Arafat involve the busines: communityin the Middie East peace proc ’ Daleysaid. ‘A lasting similar conference to assist the Palestinians in the West Bank andin Gaza. total of $2.1 billion was disbursed. Arafat, speaking at a gathering of Arab Americans in suburbanVirginia, roused t crowdby de jaring: Thopethat this be the yea of the independent P; WesaythatholyJerusalemis going state peacecanonlybe built on economic stability andjobs.” Arafat invited the business leaders tovisit thePalestinian Authorityandalsoallayed security concernsthey raised at the luncheon. vention,” said senior Palestinian meget Saeb Erekat, whoflew to ingtonlate Sundaytojoin Pale inian leader Yasser Arafat for meetings with Clinton admin istrationofficials Tyler Mallory/TheAssociated Press Yasser Arafat attends a meeting of an Arab American group in Arlington, Va Bi Leavitt in Israel Four Republican governors wrapped up a day of sightseeing and visits with Israeli officials Sunday Govs. Mare Racicot of Montana, MikeLeavitt of Utah, George W. Bush of Texas and acting Gov. Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts are onthetrip one of Iraq’s most powerfulofficials. Fromthere, however,the story gets murky The government announced Noy. 23 that Izzat Ibrahim, the No. 2 man in the Iraqi regime and a trusted lieutenant of President SaddamHussein, was targeted by criminal elements” in Karbala. it wouldbethefirst attempt on an Iraqi official since December 1996, when gunmen sprayed the car of Saddam’s eldest son, Odai But the opposition cried foul, saying the incident was fabricated to create a pretext to crack down on dissidents in thecity, the site of a bloodyuprising seven years ago andstill a bastion of unrest In the city itself, asking possible witnesses about the incident turns into a gameofsee noevil, hear no evil —a sign of the fear the government hasinstilled here. ‘The governmentsaid theassail- ant threwtwo grenadesat Ibra- himas he got out of a car on his way to a religious ceremony Ibrahim was reported to have escaped unharmed and hestill delivereda speechon behalf of Saddam. Several bystanders and bodyguards, however, were wounded, and the assailant was reportedly shot andkilled in thestreet against Izzat Ibrahimpersonally,” the opposition insisted ‘That suggestion seemed to be bolstered in recent days when an Iraqi newspaper reported a crackdown in Karbala. And no group claimed r for an attack that was bold by the standards of Iraq, wheredi — violent or otherwise — sidered treason The newspaper Babil reported that 39 “saboteurs and agents” were arrested in the days after the incident by the Fedayeen, a paramilitary force led by Odai whose soldiers are shownon Iraqi television killing cats, wolves and snakesandeating their raw meat OnSunday, the newspaper reported that Americanagents were preparingto carryout sabotagein southern Iraq in the event of a U.S. attackinIraq's dispute earlier this month over U.N. weapons ADVERTISEMENT Lands ‘Lottery’ ng royalties ‘on ail future production. 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It's important that murder ers be behind bars and locks,” said he Palestinian official Hassan As: four stormed out of the meeting with Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Naveh We felt that the Israeli gov ernment has no intention of deal ing withtheissuesseriously,” As { said he expected Israel to hand over 150 security prison: ers in place of the criminals set free in the first release We did not go to Washington to negotiate the release of car thieves.” Erekat 1. He added that the sides had agreed on terms asing prisoners but that he t's Palestinian Authority has come underintense pressure citizens, who chargethat negotiators are going soft on the prisoner issue. 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But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahusaid no one jailed for violent acts would be amongthe 500 p b Iraq’s state-run newspapers on Sundayaccused the United States and the Three top Iraqi officials, including Saddam's cousin and Opens To All In Dec. WORLDS OF PETS Israel to releaseso-calledsecurity prisoners — those who fought the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and GazaStrip. territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mid lease murderers or to release Ha- inspections. Ibrahim, weresentto the south to deal with the threat, it said Westerndiplomats in Baghdad said theydid not doubt the attack on Ibrahimwas authentic ThePalestinians had expected U.S. Plot? Was purported attack on Saddam lieutenantreal, or a fabrication to justify more repression? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dayslater, the Iraqi National ernmenthas not needed a pretext a London-based opposi- in the past to carry out often-bruARBALA, Iraq — On the Congress, group, said the attempt was tal campaignsin the largely Shiite pavement outsideoneof Shiite Is- tion a renewed south. They also did not rule out lam’s holiest sites, a sprawling orchestrated to justify ion on central the possibility Ibrahim’s assailant mosqueof Arabesquetiles with a aq, whererebels acted alone gold-leaf dome and minarets, a The fierce reaction also may restage hit-and-run attacks still circle of white chalk marks the flect a growing unease within the against government forces. chiseled concrete where a hand {brahim, it said, was leading government about renewed atgrenadeexploded. tempts by the long-divided and oftroops who weretryingto detain ten-ineffectual A few feet a is another Iraqi opposition to chalk circle marking the scars of army deserters in Karbala, 60 unite its ranks in exile miles south of Baghdad, and another grenade, then the outline clashes brokeout betweenhissolWashington hasstepped upits of the bodyof the lone assailant support as well, promising $97 who the government said was diers and the young men million for efforts to topple Sad“But there was no attempt In Sunday's negotiating session in the Palestinian city of Jericho. “This is acrisis situation and we have asked for American inter Few Hard Facts in Iraqi Assassination Report killed as he tried to assassinate Palestinians are furious over the prisoner issue, and tensions between the two sides have been prisoners, 150 of whomwere pet ty criminals, 10 days ago Daley, who recently returned irom the Mid- dle East, also reiterated the U.S. pledge to mas members building since Israel freed 250 1999. Arafat also had lunch Sunday with Secretary of CommerceWilliam Daley and a group of 15 American businessleaders. The council, meeting in Gaza on Dec. 14, is dueto reaffirm the revocation of clauses in its THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEL AVIV, Israel — stormy negotiating session ended Sunday withone Palestinian official walk ing out andotherssaying the lat est Mideast peace accord was in jeopardy, due mainly to Israel's refusal to releasemilitary andpo litical prisoners BOE Gi I's tue. Spring semester really does statin January, Make cataloglisting courses for students, community adults, work BOUNTIFUL * MAIN CAMPUS * MURRAY/CEDAR PARK » PARK CITY * SANDY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH www.dce.utah.edu N Ss |
