Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 26 2002 World I A5 I Bush urges DsoraeD to let Arafat attend Arab summit WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush urged Arab nations Monday to affirm a Saudi proposal with Israel and said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should let Yasser Arafat participate in coninitiasidering the land-for:pea- ce US-back- AP photo Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and members of the International Parliament of Writers pose for a photo in his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday Standing from right to left: Portugese Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago Arafat US film director Oliver Stone and Russell Banks president of the International Parliament of Writers Sitting are Nigerian Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka right and French writer Christian Salomon In brief : Natalia Taylor LMT Cdl Today Britney $25hr FIRST SESSION 770-569- tive "The president believes it is time for Arab nations in the region to seize the moment to create a better environment for peace to take root" said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer Bush welcomes the proposal by Crown Prince Abdullah and “he thinks it would be very helpful in the search for peace in the Middle East" Fleischer said In Jerusalem however Raanan Gissin an adviser to Sharon said Israel would not lift Students Deserve Both Excellent Schools Excellent Univenities MASSAGE THERAPEUTIC 5 ed its travel ban on Arafat until the Palestinian leader took decisive steps against militants Israel will make its decision by Tuesday the day before the summit Gissin said The president's request to Sharon was conveyed through Secretary of State Colin Powell who talked to the prime minister on both Saturday and Sunday There was no explanation why Bush did not talk directly to'thq Israeli leader Powell also had a lengthy telephone conversation Monday with Arafat in which Powell again urged Arafat to condemn violence against Israel in “clear and unambiguous" terms said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher During that call Arafat sought more US intervention in the Mideasf con- -' State Inspection On-Dema- nd ' flict and more pressure on Israel said Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh Boucher meanwhile pressed Arafat to dismantle Hezbollah and other groups the State Department says are engaged in terror ‘ Fleischer said Bush would like Arab leaders to agree in Beirut to approve “Abdullah’s initiative that recognizes Israel’s right to exist’’ ' The'White House official did not mention that Abdullah is insisting that In exchange for diplomatic recognition and trade Israel must relinquish all : the land it won from the Arabs in their 1967 war Israel rejects that main element Truce talks between Israel and the Palestinians are continuing despite few signs of progress ‘ Delivery A itMr MorleyCox Spears Singer hints at end of romance LONDON (AP) — Britney Spears said Monday that she’s not “in an intense relationship with anyone" fueling speculation that she and ’N Sync’s Justin Timberlake have broken up The pop singer faced the British media at a news conference to promote “Crossroads” her coming-of-ag- e road trip movie which opened in the United States ’ last month Journalists were warned beforehand that Spears would ignore questions about taboo topics such as her love life But when a reporter asked whether she was involved in an “intense relationship” Spears replied: “No I would not say I was in an intense relationship with anyone at die moment" Tabloids in Britain and the United States have reported that she and Timberlake have parted ways and the cover of the April 1 issue of US Weekly magazine trumpets: ‘‘Britney & Justin: It’s Over” But Spears recently told MTV that she and limbaiake were still together ' : - Scandal touches ‘clean’ activist TOKYO (AP) — Fbr her fearless questioning of ainted political foes and her ovn spotless image Kiyo- ' mi Tkujimoto had in just a few years become one of Japan’s r most visible -r-- and popular — political leaders On Tuesday however the outspoken lawmaker said she was ready to quit after her own party acknowledged: crooked bookkeeping at her V office was unclear it Though whether any laws had been broken die scandal has underscored sending among the already weary Japanese public dial there are few innocents in die country’ political land- -' Kape Tkujimoto a leading menF tier of the Soda) Democratic ' Party Japan’sopposition ' socialist faction initially ' denied any misdeeds as die corruption allegations prompt-- ‘ ed calls for her to resign V But she over die weekend admitting that ' she paid a government-salarie- d secretary only a don of her roughly $75000 atmyal income and used the rest fpr office expenses j scandal-t- : s : : flip-flopp- ed : - i - jj'1'? 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