Show ' V The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday j World In brief Fatah leaders decide to endorse Abbas’ new Cabinet April 29 2003 — AS Q Pakistan offers talks with India JERUSALEM (AP) — Mahmoud Abbas won the endorsement ofiiis Fatah party and took another step Monday toward becoming the Palestinian prime minister and forcing Yasser Arafat to share some of his power The endorsement boosts the chances of Abbas and his proposed Cabinet winning approval in parliament today since Fatah controls a majority in the legislature Approval would set die stage for new Palestinian-Israe- li peace negotiations “road President Bush has said he will unveil the map” to Palestinian statehood once Abbas has been installed Bush refuses to deal with Arafat whom he considers tainted by terrorism However Arafat has been trying to retain as much as he can of that once power In an interview with the Israeli daily Maariv published Monday he suggested he has no plans to step aside noting he is the elected president of the Palestinian people and “the whole world knows this" ed near-absolu- te Menem and rival Kirchnergo to a runoff in Argentina’s elections AP photo BUENOS AIRES Argentina (AP) — One is a former president out to burnish his place in history among Argentina’s most influential leaders The other is a provincial governor aiming for high office for the first time Former President Carlos Menem and Nestor Kirchner will election to choose Argentina’s next meet in a second-roun- d The goal: stewardship of an economy in tatters and a president its 35 million people in poverty half with country Menem and Kirchner sought to forge alliances and win over potential voters Monday as the two Peronist leaders prepared for the May 18 election runoff The winner will succeed Presiterm dent Eduardo Duhalde on May 25 for a four-yetwo-ter- m ar US official says Iran must come clean about nuclear program GENEVA (AP) — Iran must come clean about its nuclear program and submit to increased inspections by a global monitoring body a US official told an international conference Monday “Despite professions of transparency and peaceful intent Iran is going down the same path of denial and deception that handi- capped international inspections in North Korea and Iraq” said John Wolf US assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation “We have seen the pattern of cheat and retreat before — of begrudging compromises on process but obstinacy on real dis- k closure” Wolf said at the opening of a meeting on the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty two-wee- Holocaust survivors Bght 6 flames to represent the 6 million victims of the Holocaust during a ceremony on Monday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem Israel paused Monday to remember the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis in World Viter II Museum aims to keep Holocaust legacy alive JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's main Holocaust memorial center is building an underground museum to preserve survivors’ stories and to keep alive the memory of the millions of Jews who were killed Officials with the Yad Vashem center showed the museum still under construction in anticipation of Israel’s annual Heroes and Martyrs Memorial Day which began Monday evening Air raid sirens were to sound nationwide on Tuesday morning when residents also pause to remember Jewish victims of the Nazis ' The $1 10 million project will update the existing exhibit to attract younger people with interactive displays and computer data banks The idea is that the technology will someday stand in place of the experience of meeting and hearing survivors themselves “We understood that we have to disseminate messages in a world that will one day be without survivors to build something human on a personal basis” said Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev touring the underground structure as workers swung hammers and wielded saws Ruth Brand 75 a Holocaust survivor said many survivors are finding it easier to talk about the honors they endured to their grandchildren rather than their own children whom they sought to protect “I think many feel that jf they don't open their mouth and talk now it’s going down to the grave with them’’ she said The museum's 23 million pages of testimony with information on Holocaust victims — filled out by relatives and friends — will be shelved in a large circular Hall of Names above a crater dug into the hill to represent a grave ' ISLAMABAD Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan made a: major peace overture to nuclear rival India on Monday proposing visits between their leaders in an effort to ease decades-lon- g tensions over the disputed Kashmir region Pakistan Prime Minister Zafamllah Khan Jamali called Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and asked “to resolve outstanding issues : through dialogue” according to Pakistan Television Jamali also said Pakistan officials are willing to visit India and invited Indian officials to visit Pakistan “in the cause of peace” the report said Jamali made his offer after Vajpayee last week proposed talks between the two nations while visiting the troubled Indian-Kashm- ir capital of Srinagar It also comes weeks before a top Bush administration official visits the region in an effort to ease tensions According to a Pakistan for- eign ministry statement Jamali “welcomed Prime Minister Vajpayee’s offer of talks with Pakistan and reiterated Pakistan’s readiness for a dialogue with India at any level” The South Asian neighbors have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir which is divided between India and Pakistan but which both claim in its entirety So far India has refused to negotiate with Pakistan instead demanding that Islamabad first stop Muslim militants crossing from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir into Indi- an:ruled Kashmir 35 r Itiiiii Mi mi taw IMwitw in Owl Huntley IT Sal all IffltnfT —“— 1 ' lwLoBaOVllwMlnlltCllyNrtilBnPIctndaouftTowiwOnlwlnOgdnNiwBNilMllnftwBtPiToyntCnlwJngtGorBiHtdCIWMS DlnefCMWernallonelMatercaKl? 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