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loldiers arrested more than 400 Arabs and
leized automatic weapons in a predawn sweep
Tuesday against an Islamic fundamentalist
up that terrified the nation with suicide
jomD attacks on commuter buses.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who ordered
he crackdown, hinted there could be further
noves if the attacks persisted, and officials said
iamas political leaders could be targeted next.
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with all the means that are available to us. The
nly limitation is the limitations of the law,” he
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Israelis capture 400 Hamas Arabs
Israel also allowed the return Tuesday of
six fugitives from Arafat’s Fatah faction, who
crossed from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.
“Their return is a sign that the peace
process is continuing despite the obstacles,”
said Sufian Abu Zayde, a PLO spokesman.
PLO officials said the roundup of Islamic
activists, the largest since Israel deported
nearly 400 Palestinians to Lebanon in
December 1992, was particularly ill-timed
because it came while PLO negotiators were
seeking the release of prisoners of all factions.
About 3,500 Hamas activists are among the
1 0,500 inmates Palestinians say are held by
Israel.
Palestine Liberation Organization officials
said the sweep was unlikely to force a
suspension in Israel-PLO talks but would
undercut support for the peace process.
"These arrests are certainly not going to
contribute in any positive way. On the
contrary, they feed the skepticism and the
convictions people have that this peace process
is merely a reorganization of the occupation
and won’t lead to real peace,” said Hanan
Ashrawi, a PLO spokeswoman.
She added that the arrests set back PLO
efforts to persuade Islamic activists to
participate in self-rule elections and the process
of reconstruction.
The focus of the raids, carried out in a
dozen fundamentalist strongholds in the Gaza
Strip and West Bank, were young activists and a
few key preachers of Hamas and the smaller
Islamic Jihad faction. Hamas sources some key
leaders had fled earlier to Egypt.
“The aim was to strike a severe blow at the
operational structure of Hamas to disrupt their
operations,” said Col. Renaan Gissin, an army
spokesman, adding Israel was sending a “clear
message to Hamas that we will not let go of
them and won’t tolerate such activities^’
Serbs seize U.N. guns,
shell buildings in Gorazde
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs stepped up
their challenge to the United Nations on Tuesday, boldly seizing
anti-aircraft guns from U.N. guards near Sarajevo and shelling U.N.
buildings in Gorazde.
As politicians and diplomats from Washington to Moscow
debated a response, the Serbs showed no signs of honoring pledges
to stop their attack on Gor'azde, a Muslim enclave suffering one of
the worst assaults in Bosnia’s two-year war.
U.N. officials lost contact with aid workers and military observers
in Gorazde late in the day when their building was hit by shells.
Earlier reports said artillery fire also hit the eastern town’s main
hospital, two refugee centers and a food warehouse.
On Sarajevo’s southern fringe, as many as 150 Serb soldiers
brushed aside 30 French peacekeepers at the Lukavica barracks and
took back 1 8 anti-aircraft guns they had surrendered under a NATO
threat of air strikes two months ago.
"They were simply overrun,” said a U.N. spokesman, Maj. Eric
Chaperon. “If they had fired, it would have been a massacre.”
It was unclear where the weapons were taken.
The seizure was a slap at NATO, which threatened in February to
bomb any heavy guns not pulled back at least 121/2 miles from
Sarajevo or put under U.N. control.
NATO officials responded cautiously Tuesday to a request from U.N.
Secretary-General Boutrous Boutros-Ghali for broader authority to call
inair power to protect the six U.N.-designated “safe areas” like
| Gorazde. They said an apswer might be several days away.
Aid workers|r|pkirted that-the heavy artillery and sniper fire was
more intense and dangerous than any suffered in Sarajevo during its
siege by Serb troops.
The Geneva headquarters of the U.N. Fligh Commissioner for
Refugees said it lost communications with its Gorazde workers and
was not sure of their fate.
An official for the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders
said the roof of Gorazde’s main hospital was blown off.
"Thankfully, the patients on the second and first floors were
transferred (earlier) to the basement,” Dr. Renaud Tockert said in
Brussels, Belgium.
About 65,000 people, many of them Muslim refugees, are
crowded into Gorazde. U.N. commanders have said they did not
have enough peacekeepers to protect all of the six “safe areas”
declared by the U.N. Security Council last May.
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Zulu leader to participate
in South African elections
The Associated Press
IPRETORIA, South Africa — Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi broke a
political deadlock Tuesday by agreeing to take part in next week’s election,
giving South Africa its first hope of peaceful balloting and an end to years of
violence.
“This agreement is a leap forward for peace. ... A bright future awaits our
land,” African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela declared after a
two-day summit culminated in the announcement.
Mandela, Buthelezi and President F.W de Klerk struck a deal whereby
Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party will be added to the ballots for the April
26-28 elections. Buthelezi had threatened to boycott the vote unless he won
guarantees of autonomy for his KwaZulu black nomeland.
He also had demanded the election be delayed to give Inkatha more
campaign time, and a security crackdown across the Zulu stronghold of
eastern Natal province be lifted.
Buthelezi decided it was more prudent to enter the election at the last
minute than boycott it and be left out of the country’s first black-led
government.
The only concession made by the ANC and government was to amend
the constitutiOft to recognize Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini as traditional
monarch of the KwaZulu-Natal region.
This proposal means the all-white Parliament will be summoned to Cape
Town a final time Monday to approve the change.
A post-apartheid constitution approved in December by black and white
groups failed to satisfy Buthelezi’s demands for autonomy and prompted
Inkatha to announce an election boycott. That set in motion a series of
summits that seemed to only further divide the parties.
After former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a team of foreign
negotiators abandoned a mediation attempt Thursday, there appeared no
hope of a breakthrough.
Kenyan diplomat Washington Okumu began secret mediation efforts the
same day.
“When you have a situation where people have lost trust in each other,
you need someone who can understand them and whom they can trust. It
happened that both of them trust me,” Okumu said.
In Washington, President Clinton praised the breakthrough as
demonstrating “great courage and a capacity to compromise.
“Today’s bold action by Chief Buthelezi, Nelson Mandela and F.W de
Klerk is one more act of collective statesmanship that bodes well for the
prospect of free and fair elections in South Africa, and for the success of the
future Government of National Unity.”
Printers will be going full-tilt from now to the elections spewing
out tens of millions of stickers containing Inkatha’s name, logo and a
picture of Buthelezi.
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