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Show Che \4 Salt Lake Trt NATION/WORLD Wednesday. Israel says no to cease-fire ark Service to let some snowmobiles exceed limits Trade-off: Arafat wants Israel to end military operations in exchangefor a halt in terror attacks by Palestinians National iid they JERUSALEM — Israel on Tuesday rejected a ease-fire offer from a top aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who said the Palestinian leadership would commit to an open-ended offi will a snowmobiles this win cease-fire exceed the pollution limits the Bush administration the Park Service d it in an interview with Israel Radio, Jabril Ra an would not enforce a vmobile ban, which was to go effect last winter, Kast will be relieved and pleased,” said Rajoub, who added that Arafat was eager to work out a officials { that they would seek to curb ition from the machines by cease-fire Rajoub also said the Palestinians’ offer was contingent on Israel halting construction of tting limits for carbon monox fe and hydrocarbon emissions I Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza ilso said they would test for e Strip and of the fence being built to separate the noise West Bankand Israel On Tuesday, Park Service of ils said they would certify the Israeli officials were quick to dismiss Ra joub’s proposal. “This is not the type of cease fire which may entice us to change our policy,” Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said, according to iachines on the basis of two dif erent iupe testing methods. One iverage emissions. The ther tricter measurement, record an engine's highest mission levels resting data supplied to the park showed that some Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reaches out to greet supporters during a pro-Arafatrally at his battered compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday. Arafat wants to reach a truce with Israel but Israeli officials brushed aside the offer, saying the last cease-fire ended with violence. news services A three-month cease-fire declared June 29 by the three ignation on Sept. 6, Israeli officials have re peatedly said they would not consider another truce proposal From the outset, Israel had described the Palestinians’ last cease-fire as a ploy to rearm joub, Arafat's national security adviser, said such a truce would mean a halt to armed actions and terrorist attacks by the Palestinians We are reaching the bridge and we can cross it in a way that everybody in the Middle Teton national park ; V hi was then the Palestinian prime minister, to garner broad support for the June cease-fire. With Arafat’s power increased by Abbas’ res if Israel would agree to halt major military operations part of its policy to permit vmobiles in Yellowstone and ind dermining efforts by Mahmoud Abbas, who The Washington Post Service Tuesday me Gaza City the following day By ANpy MOSHER [re Park Movement, or Hamas, killed himself and 23 others on a Jerusalem bus Aug. 19, and anIs raeli airstrike killed a senior Hamasleaderin At the time, Arafat had been accused of un By Junie CART ingrles September 17, 20038 largest Palestinian militant groups ended a month prematurely after a bomber connected with the Islamic Resistance and made clear it had no interest in any such offers. Instead, the government of Prime Min ister Ariel Sharon has demanded that the Pal estinian leadership dismantle militant groups that have carried out terrorist attacks in Israel and the occupied territories Abbas and other Palestinian leaders have argued that taking on the militant groups, which are well armed and enjoy broad support in the territories, would prove unsuccessful at best and could lead to civil war. A cease-fire, they say, would create a lull in which the groups could gradually be persuaded to sur render their weapons and pursuetheir goals through political means. In the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli army and security troops shot and killed a Palestinian man described as a senior operative ofIs lamic Jihad, the armyreported. In a statement, the army spokesperson’soffice said troops in Dora, a town in the southern West Bank, surrounded a building in which Majid Abu Dush, 24, had barricadedhimself. late iodel snowmobilesfailed to pass muster when the stricter mea urement was applied. Park offi cial iid they would not pro hibit those snowmobiles, saying that it was enough that the ma chines met the standard based on iverage CMISSIONS By allowing snowmobiles to be certified by the less stringent measure, park officials acknowl edge that it is inevitable that some snowmobiles in Yellow stone this winter will exceed the agency's emissionslimits Yellowstone superintendent Suzanne Lewis said Tuesday that the Park Service had certified ten models from two manufacturers Arctic Cat and Polaris, even though two Polaris models failed the stricter of the two emissions tests and also exceeded noise lim its set by the parks. ‘The controversial decision to cancel the Clinton administra tion's snowmobile ban in Yel 7 pe. lowstone and neighboring Grand leton was based, in part, on as urances from manufacturers that new technology would pro duce models that would reduce harmful emissions and run more quietly Yet, only three of the ten cer tified models from both manu facturers were from the 2004 model year, said Yellowstone chief planner John Sacklin Sacklin said the decision to ac cept the machines was made in fairness to the snowmobile man ufacturers, which had already begun producing machines LIVING ROOM SET Includes sofa, loveseat, coffee table, 2 endtables, 2 lamps. °499”! 4 Drawer CHEST OF DRAWERS $39”! by the time the park began to con ider which emission standards to use for certification Name Brand MATTRESS SETS “4 tm SS Pay Y & - ce wa Save upto $150.00 * re | ave 4 *Windshuck! 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