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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Sharon Regrets Not Killing Arafat Prime minister: Israel missedits chance in 1982 “In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat,” Sharon told the Maariv newspaper. “In princi. ple, fm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.” Though Sharon has labeled Arafat and his regimeas ter- BY MARK LAVIE Torists, inciters and liars, Arafat at least in the current ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS crisis has not responded in JERUSALEM Ariel Sharon says he’s sorry he didn't have Yasser Arafat kind in public. A Palestinian close to Arafat said the embattled leaderfeels “liquidated” while he had a Sharonis out to get him, but chance — 20 the Palestinian leader does not consider Sharon a personal enemy. On Thursday, Sharon’s comments to the newspaper Sharon’s drewstiff criticism from Spanish Foreign Minister Josep musings about missed the op- Pique, whose country holds the European Unionpresidency. “I deplore them, and they should portunity, published Thursday, Ariel Sharon raised eyebrows abroad but wouldn't have surprised most Middle Easterners, where thebitter, decades-long personal enmity notbe accepted,” Pique said. Sharon’s part in the Leba- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat inspects bomb damage in the Arab University area of West Beirut, in August 1982,following a heavy bombardment byIsraeli military forces the day before. finish off his old enemy. is widely seen as a key element of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israeli prime minister spokeas his tanks surrounded Arafat’s compoundin the West Bank town of Ramallah, trapping the Palestinian leader in- side. His remarks in an interview with the Maariv daily coincide with speculation that this time, Sharon hopes to “Sharon’s words are very dangerous,” said Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat. As defense minister in 1982, Sharon directed an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, where Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization ruled a virtual state within a state. At first presented as a 48-hour opera- tion to move the Palestinian forces out of southern non invasion drew him a rebuke from an official Israeli commission of inquiry, which found him indirectly responsi. Lebanon, the war expanded and Israeli forces eventually occu- ble for a massacre of Palestin- pied Beirut. Christian militiamen in September1982. The commission forced Arafat, along with his top lieutenants and manyfighters, was forced to board ships under theeyeofthe Israeli army and leave for Tunisia. An Israeli sniper said later he had Arafat in his gunsights, but instead of pulling the trigger, he took a picture of the defeated Palestinian leader. jan = Friday, February 1, 2002 refugees in Beirut by Sharon to step down as defense minister. Arafat returned to center stage in 1994, when he made a triumphantreturn to Palestinian land to take over the autonomy government created underinterim peace accords. ish Ani Victims Slam Church’s Offer BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK he was sent for petty robber- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS has given the church a ‘get DUBLIN, Ireland Vic- ies. “Instead, the government out ofjail free’ card.” Guidelines tims of sexual abuse in Ireland's Roman Catholic schools criticized the church's Thursday $110 million compensation pledge Thursday, saying it gested that people claiming to by ment-backed Residential Institutions Redress Board sug- should shoulder more of the cost of its past sins. Under an agreement an- nounced late Wednesday by Ireland’s Roman Catholic Church and the government after 14 months of negotiations, the church is to con tribute $110 million toa much larger government-run compensation fund. The government agreed to indemnify the church against further legal action byvictims in Ireland. The Vatican Catholic religious orders could receive payments ranging from $43,000 to $260,000. With 3,000 to 7,000 potential claimants, the government said the total payout could reach $430 million, about four times the church contribution. “Byany yardstick, the re- ligious institutions are getting a good deal — a bailout declined to comment Thurs- bythe taxpayer and an ex- day on the deal. emption from prosecution,” said Michael Creed, education spokesman for the main opposition party, Fine Gael. The church payment, Victims and their advocatesin Ireland, wheretens of thousands of orphans and delinquents passed through church-run foster homes and industrial schools from the 1940s to 1970s, charged that the agreement “foists much of the cost of compensation back on the taxpayer. “The state should pay out all the money itself and sue the church,” said John Kelly, whichincludes $68 million in property being donated to the state, was designed to end a 10-year struggle by the church in this overwhelmingly Catholic nation to overcomea decades-old legacy of sexual abuse. 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