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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s co
alition government was split Monday
over an Egyptian peace proposal
that includes suspending Palestinian
riots and a moratorium on Jewish
settlement in the occupied territo
ries.
Reporters saw soldiers use sledge
hammers and crowbars to open
shops in Gaza City and the West
Bank to try to end a lingering strike
of Arab merchants.
Four Palestinian activists from
Gaza facing deportation dropped
their appeals to Israel’s Supreme
Court on Monday.
“They feel they will not obtain jus
tice from an Israeli court,” Fayez
Abu Rahme, a Gaza lawyer, said.
“They said international public
opinion has already decided that de
portation is illegal and we’d hate to
see it legalized in court.”
Four Palestinians from the West
Bank were expelled to Lebanon on
th
Jan. 13. A fifth West Bank Palestin
ian dropped his appeal earlier this
month.
American Jewish leaders con
demned the beating of rioters.
“The current policy of force and
beatings as it has been implemented
on the ground is regarded by us as
inhumane and simply unaccepta
ble,” Theodore Mann, president of
the American Jewish Congress, told
reporters after meeting with De
fense Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel
Aviv.
Rabin said soldiers had been told
to beat protesters rather than fire at
them with live ammunition.
Palestinian riots began Dec. 8 in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
which Israel captured from Jordan
and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East
war. Israeli gunfire killed 38 Arabs
before the new policy was an
nounced.
spol
hak Shamir, said the prime minister
would reject the proposal by Presi
dent Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
Mubarak, who left Cairo on Mon
day for a trip to Europe and the
United States, urged that Palestin
ians halt the violence for six months
and Israel stop building new Jewish
settlements in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
leader of the centrist Labor Paml
praised Mubarak for asking Arabsiol
stop rioting and trying to renew|»|
litical efforts for peace.
Peres noted that only four sel l
dements had been started since difl
Likud-Labor “national unity" coali f
tion took office in 1984.
He said that would create a cli
mate conducive to an internaional
conference on peace in the Middle
East. The Egyptian-Israeli treaty of
March 1979 is the only peace
agreement made with Israel by an
Arab nation.
A Foreign Ministry official said I
Peres did not accept all aspects oftkl
Mubarak proposal, particularly tlitj
suggestion that a "suitable internaf
tional mechanism" be found to pro s
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pation.
Yossi Sarid and Deddi Zuderi
legislators from the liberal Citizensl
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the army’s use of beatings. They said I
more than 200 Palestinians hadsuf f
fered broken bones.
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tion shifts will continue adding
House seats to Sun Belt states such
as California and Texas while dis
tricts now represented by blacks and
Democrats suffer declines, a private
study said Monday.
California could pick up as many
as six House seats, with Texas add
ing four and Florida three, Election
Data Services said, while New York
could lose three seats and two apiece
could be lost by Illinois, Michigan,
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Kimball Brace, president of the
political consultant group, said the
shifts were based on 1990 popula
tion estimates prepared by Temple
University.
They update estimates released
just two weeks ago, which showed
slightly less dramatic changes based
on 1987 population estimates.
In addition to the shifts among
the states. Brace said the current dis
tricts with the sharpest declines are
generally those represented by
blacks and Democrats.
Mich., which fell by nearly 70,000
people, a 13.6 percent decline.
He added that of the 21 congres
sional districts with populations
more than 40 percent black, 16 had
population declines.
the
On the other hand, he said, of the
37 districts with 20 percent or more
Hispanic populations, 33 gained
population between 1980 and 1986.
Besides Crockett’s, other districts
suffering major losses included
those of Reps. William Coyne, D-Pa.;
Henry J. Nowak, D-N.Y.; John Con
yers, D-Mich., and Robert Garcia, D-
N.Y.
Questions remain on how
shifts will affect future elections.
If people moving into Republican
districts nave the oudook and poli
tics of poople already there, it could
benefit the GOP, Brace said, while
shifting Democratic voters into Re
publican districts could change the
balance there toward Democrats.
While Democratic districts were
more likely to be losing people, there
were some exceptions in the Farm
Belt, with the biggest Republican
loser being Illinois’ 18th District,
represented by House GOP leader
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His report was based on an analy
sis of 1986 congressional district
population estimates from the Cen
sus Bureau.
Of the; 50 districts with the largest
population losses since the 1980 cen
sus, 44 are represented by Demo
crats, Brace said.
The House district with the larg
est population loss is that rep
resented by George W. Crockett, D-
In Iowa, Brace added, 5 of the 6
districts lost population.
Overall, population gains were re
ported by 86 percent of the Republi
can districts in the House, compared
with 73 percent of districts rep
resented by Democrats.
Brace’s estimates of shifting seats
are based on projections of what the
state populations will be in 1990.
The national census will be con
ducted April 1, 1990, with the count
to be announced at the end of that
year.
House seats will be divided among
the states based on the new popula
tion figures, with state legislatures
then drawing new district lines,
probably in time for the 1992 elec
tions.
’ Nationwide, House districts will
have to average somewhat over
550,000 people apiece, according to
census estimates.
Thus, any district falling short the
average will have to be expanded to
bring the total up, while any district
above the average will have be re
duced to bring the total down.
The biggest gaining district was
the 26th in Texas, represented by
Republican Dick Armey, the study
said. That district increased by 41./
percent, gaining nearly 220,000 peo
ple.
While court decisions require each
district to be roughly equal in pop
ulation within a state, redistricting
always involves considerable political
maneuvering to protect seats held by
the party in charge in that state legis
lature.
Shultz says
pact violations
to draw action
WASHINGTON — Secretan
of State George P. Shultz assured
conservative critics Monday the
United States will respond vigor
ously if the Soviet Union violates
the new arms reduction treaty in
Europe, but Sen. Jesse Helms de
clared the Soviet Union alreadyis
exploiting an “engraved invita
tion to cheat.”
As Shultz led the administra
tion’s campaign for Senate ratifi
cation of the treaty, Helms, R-
N.C., waving a document marked
“TOP SECRET” in red, con
tended he had obtained informa
tion proving the Soviets already
have violated the pact which calls
for the elimination of medium-
and short-range nuclear missiles.
Helms told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee he had re
ceived confirmation of the docu
ment’s authenticity —from CIA
Director William Webster. ,
But Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-
Md., complaining that Helms had
not read aloud from a key section
of a letter from Webster, quoted
the CIA chief as saying that while
the document represented ex
cerpts from a draft of a CIA na
tional intelligence estimate, it did
not tell the story.
Sarbanes noted the CIA direc
tor had said the judgments
reached in the document “by
themselves do not constitute a
sufficient basis on which to draw
conclusions.”
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP)
— University professor Leslie Man
igat won Haiti’s presidential election
with more than 50 percent of the
vote, election officials said.
Opposition leaders said the elec
tion run by the ruling junta was a
sham.
Manigat garnered 50.3 percent,
or 534,080 votes out of a total of
1,062,016 votes cast in the Jan. 17
election, according to results re
leased by the government-appointed
Electoral Council.
The junta led by Lt. Gen. Henri
Namphy has promised to turn over
power to an elected president on
Feb. 7.
The three-man junta has ruled
this impoverished Caribbean nation
since dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier
fled to exile in France in February
1986.
The government scheduled the
Jan. 17 balloting after an indepen
dently-run presidential election last
Nov. 29 was canceled due to wide
spread violence.
Thugs gunned down at least 34
people, and witnesses said soldiers
either joined in the violence or ig
nored it.
The leading candidates in that
election refused to take part in the
junta-run balloting.
Final results from last week’s vote
showed sociologist Hubert DeRonce-
ray came in second with with
210,526 votes, agronomist Gerard
Philippe-Auguste placed third with
151,391 and attorney Gregoire Eu
gene was fourth with 97,556.
Seven other candidates split the
remaining 68,463 votes. Mayors and
members of the National Assembly
also were chosen in the balloting.
Election officials said 35 percent
of 3 million eligible voters took part
in the election, but opposition lead
ers charged double voting and other
irregularities inflated the totals.
organized a series of anti-govern
ment strikes last summer.
Seventy-five percent of the electo
rate registered
■ything
cret; nobody can guarantee the fig
ures,” said Gerard Bissainthe, politi
cal coordinator for the Front for
Concerted Action, a coalition that
rate registered for the indepen
dently run elections on Nov. 29. Af
ter they were canceled, the junta
scrapped the independent Electoral
Council and appointed one of its
own.
The top candidates in that elec
tion blamed the ruling junta for the
violence, saying it was intended to
prevent the election of a president
the army might not be able to con
trol.
Eugene ca lied
“grotesque.”
the election results
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