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Show ~ UtahSpecial Olym summer games rapes Dolimakers’ M Jazz look te reap exhibit een eaey Page AS eeuheoourt adventede Page B1 Clinton backs curfew Netanyahu takes lead over Peres By KARIN LAUB Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM — Opposition continuing the peace process with the Palestinians Kids would have fgnd acetab leader B. i Netanyahu appeared to have edged out Prime Minister Shimon Peres in an election that ¢: the deep rift in Israel on how to proceed with peace talks. With 99.9 percent of ballots counted by this moming, Netanyahu led Wednesday's prime minister’s race by 21,399 votes — 1,416,280 votes to to be in by & p.m. is, however, expected to sion ie pocs afponsbeohtg ies Reloiee sa By SONYA ROSS to retract Associated Press Writer The leader of the right-wing Likud Party has said he would block the creation of a Palestinian state, WASHINGTON — Sounding a conservative theme, President Clinton is embracing tough etrfews to fight crime: Kids under 17 should be off the strects af 8 gum. on school ni; Clinton will offer his reeam- build more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Peres’ 1,394,881, or 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, refuse to negotiate any retumn of Jerusalem to the Arabs, and halt a planned Israeli troop withdrawal according to the Central Election Commission. from the West Bank town of Hebron. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was briefed throughout the night in his headquarters in Gaza Related story, Page A2 mendations for successful curfews City. His officials expressed concern about a today in New Orleans, where a strict “dusk to dawn” curfew is credited with reducing juvenile But with 154,000 absentee ballotsstill remaining Netanyahu victory, but said the Likud leader could not reverse wha®had already been achieved. “The situation is going to be a bit more complex, but we are not in a panic,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a chance for a come-from-behind victory. But Israeli commentators pronounced Netanyahuthe country's next leader. Israelis also voted Wednesday for the 120-member parliament. Both major blocs — Netanyahu's Likud and Peres’ Labor Party — lost large chunks of votes to religious and other -interest parties. Hastening to allay fears over the future of Mideast peace, Netanyahu said through a spokesman today that he was “deeply committed to Page Ct member ofthe Palestinian legislature. Labor representatives watching the vote count at the Central Election Commission today demanded spot checks of voters’ lists to make sure they matched the number of ballots cast. “We are now searching for every vote,” said Ronen Tzur, an aide to the chief of Labor's parliameant faction, Raanan Cohen. Cohen said he wanted to know why 143,000 Hewill deliver a speech before a women's group of the Church of God in Christ on “a specific type of safety program for kids,” White, House spokesman Mike Meany, said Wednesday. Today's trip provides a sounding board for the to test his conservative themes. Louisiana is a conservative State that gave Clinton 42 percent of the votes for prime minister had been declared invalid, as opposed to only 63,000 for parliament. vote in 1992 and has a healthy Hard-line policies will be dificult ttoPoul into effect JERUSALEM — Challenger the White House lawn. He vowed ian officials Benjamin Netanyahu has taken to get tough with Palestinian in-your-face positions with the leader Yasser Arafat. Specifically, he pledged to ment. Even Palestinians during his campaign close the PLO headquarters in President to be Israel's prime minister. an wen “The difference isnot building Clinton was implement extreme policies and nen Israel's newly won and relata with the Arab world. Israeli troops to pursue terrorists Prime Minis- peeoeroe lead with all pledges not to honor commit- As prime minister, however, Jerusalem, end the Over Strategic choice but the best way to achieve he will not have a free hand. In freeze on new Jewish settlements seen as leanfact, he will find it difficult to in the West Bank and authorize ing towards into PLO-run autonomy zones if ter Shimon Peres No less worrisome for the because pystni. ans wamed io" “ry new rioting and bloodshed — Dore Gold, like the adviser to Netanyahu six-year of or Netanyahu, who has a slim but Palestinians are his campaign concem but the absentee ballot counted, ments to withdraw from the West drew his strength from anger and Bank city of Hebron or negotiate frustration over suicide bombings Palestinian demands for a state Muslim extremists that killed with Jerusalem as its capital. He also said he would not cede the victims. His answer was to promise a Golan Heights to Syria for a policy that would put personal peace agreement. bors.” for the continua- upris- ing, that plagued tion of the S the peace SS. West Bank and Gaza Strip Hastening to allay fears, before the 1993 Israel-PLO accord. Netanyahu said through a spokesman today that he was “deeply committed to continuing Dore Gold,a top foreign policy adviser to Netanyahu,said a Likud government would “not launch a on Palestinian self-rule. “The continuation of the peace Process is a strategic choice that will continue under a Likud govemmentif a Likud government is formed,” Gold told The Associated Press. “The difference is not over strategic choice but the best way to achieve it. “If you start out with what is ptable to the Arab side then you givé awayyourpositions.” A Netanyahu government, Hanan Ashrawi, a one-time Arafat spokeswoman, said, would be restrained by international pressure as well as opposition from Israel's peace camp and ing tough about youth and crjme.- Republican presidential —— (See CURFEW,Page A2)" 3 relieved of duty in crash probe By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer WASHINGTON — Three U.S. Air Force commanders in Europe were relieved of duty because of the jetliner crash in Croatia last month that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and34 others. “The right wing does not have a free hand,” Ashrawisaid. Cannon, Draschil debate issues "teDaly Hera Chris on ayeind Draschil, Republicans competing for ight to take on incum- bent 3rd District Democrat Bill Orton in November's general election, addressed sever- Talk occasionally turned confrontational Wednesday over twoissues the two candidates differ widely on: world trade and new wilderness designation for Utah public lands. Cannon said he supports free trade and believes the trilateral North American Free Trade and the General Agreement on Tariffs al issues they differ little on during a debate and Trade are helping to remove barriers and proeg oon in Provo. Draschil and Cannon will face off in the mote improved free trade of U.S. products. June 25 primary election. Draschil, who opposes NAFTA and GATT, said they have created an economic United Nationsin the form of the World Trade Organization, that trammels on U.S. sovereignty. The WTO was established in the 1994 Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiatons to serve as the principal intemational forum where the exchange of goods, services, capital and technology will be considered. (See ISSUES, Page A2) we seec reer +s Summerfun Deby Hevabi PhotnJeson Otel ‘ie COREE ER EEL Associated Press Writer Security"™ahead of wisionary Such stances brought~ expres~-- thepeace Process with the Pales- new line of policy” that would and handshakes on sions of alarm from senior Palestin- tinians and al! ofIsrael's neigh- conflict with the Oslo - Se tert ey rn of ae sn nt re gh cl hen Ye stem dl ee are ener By NICOLASB. TATRO number of swing voters. But Clinton isn’t alone in talk- |