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Show ee The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Wednesclay, July 30, 200% Refugee desperation grows as Liberia fight goes on Tue AssociaTEp Parss MONROVIA, Liberia Charles Taylor's forces battled Tuesday to retake key cities captured by rebels in fighting that had the Liberian warlord turned-president threatening t hang onto power despite hi: is pledge to resign. Aid workers tending to ema. ciated babies in Monrovia said the new combatcut the starving from Palestinians. The fenceIs one issue Palestinians see as an obstacle to peace. Bush urges Sharon toward peace White House meeting: TheIsraeli touts concessions, butis asked to make more is serving only to strengthen those groups,as long as the Palestinian Authority does not take steps to disarm them. “We are thankful for every hour of and other international assistance. Nigeria, West Africa's mili tary power, has ¢ battalions but say th what it expects to be a timillion-dollar daily tab. Askedafter meeting with Prime Minister TonyBlair in London when peacekeeping troops might go in, Nigerian President battalion and, with Security Council approval, could provide support for two battalions for a limited period. Liberia's main rebel groupis pressing two months of sieges of Liberia's capital, a city of 1 million overflowing with hun dreds of thousands of refugees. Rebels hold Monrovia’s port, cutting off food and other vital aid for the capital and surrounding refugee camps. Insurgents have fought a three-year war to capture Monrovia and topple Taylor, a capital’s last aid lifeline. Des. perate refugees, crossing paths as they fled one embattled Liberian city for another, said Olusegun Obasanjo told report General Kofi Annan, eager to Boston-educated business stu- there was noplace to turn. see peacekeepersin place, said in New York that a U.N. peace- dent and Libyan-trained guerrilla fighter who launched Liberia into 14 years of nearperpetualconflict in 1989. Arguments over funding are believed to be delaying deploy ment of a peace mission, Laermnss Prranaxis/ TheAsuriatedPress This aerial view of a village within the West Bank shows part of a fence Israel is building to separate Israelis pledged by West African na tions with assurances of US. ers, “a few days United Nations Secretary keeping mission in Sierra Le one can transport one Nigerian LAST DAYS! SALE 39.99 EASY SPIRIT LOWEST PRICES ARROW Orig. 59.99. White leather. increased quiet and less terrorism, and for every By GLENN KESSLER The Washington Post dropofblood thatis spared,”he said. “At the same WASHINGTON President Bush pressed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Tuesday to make overtures and take politically difficult steps that would bolster the new Palestinian prime minister and help revitalize the stalled peace process. Sharon arrived at the White House with a package of promised prisoner releases and easing of roadblocks, but resisted dramatic action on key issues importantto Palestinians, including Israeli settlements and their plans to construct a fence separating Palestinians from manyIsraelis on the WestBank. Indeed, Sharon said he would continue to build the fence, but he bowed to someU.S. concerns byprivately indicating he would install more gates and slow construction deep in Palestinian areas, officials said. The meeting, just four days after Bush met with time, we are concerned that this welcome quietwill be shattered any minute.” Sources said that Abbas, in his private meeting with Bush, emphasized thePalestinian people were readyfora cease-fire, andthatthe longerit goes on, the stronger support for it will grow within the Palestinian community, making it difficult for the militant groups to break the cease-fire whenit is supposed to end in September. Sharon arrived in Washington eager to demonstrate that Israel not the Palestinian Authority — is alreadytaking the necessary steps to advance the peace process. Israeli officials said they were planning to release540 Palestinian prisoners in the coming week, out of more than 6,000 being held, including 210 activists whobelong to twokey mili- Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas atthe though those steps appear tofall far short of Pales- White House, underscored howquicklythe presi- tinian demands that construction behalted. The fence a high concrete wall in someareas and an electronicwirefence elsewhere has emerged as dent and his aides have been drawninto the complex details oftheIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, with little evidence thateithersidethusfar is willing to put aside age-old suspicions. Bush launched the new peace effort last monthat a pair of summits on the Red Sea. 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