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Israel agrees to expand troop
withdrawal from West Bank
□ The phased pullout
will take two years.
The PLO is expected to
demand statehood for
the West Bank.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel
confirmed new details Wednes
day of an emerging break
through on expanding Palestin
ian self-rule, but it also added a
warning: attacks on Israelis by
militants opposed to the peace
process must stop.
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres delivered the warning with
the announcement that Israel’s
withdrawal from the West Bank
will expand with phased troop
pullouts from four towns before
Palestinian elections this year.
Scores of Israelis have been
killed in attacks in the 14
months since Palestinian self-
rule was established in the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank
area of Jericho under the first
stage of a September 1993 Is-
rael-PLO accord.
The West Bank pullout is far
more complicated than the first
stage because 135,000 Jewish
settlers live throughout the ter
ritory — compared to 5,000 in
Gaza and none in Jericho.
Nonetheless, Peres and Arafat
set July 25 as a target date for
signing an agreement on a troop
Expanded
autonomy planned
despite violence
Israel and PLO teadera are
planning to sign a long-delayed
deal for expending Palestinian 5
autonomy at the end of this
month Random acts of violence
are still common throughout the
region
withdrawal.
Peres said Is
rael plans a
phased pullout
from parts of the
West Bank over
two years, start
ing with four
towns — Nablus,
Jenin, Qalqilya
and Tulkarm —
before Palestinian
elections are held
late this year.
A Palestinian
official, speaking
on condition of
anonymity, said
the initial pullout
would begin four
weeks after the
agreement is
signed and end at
least 25 days be
fore voting.
During the
elections,
arrangements
would be made in
the three other
large West Bank
towns — Ramal-
lah, Bethlehem
and Hebron — so that Israeli
troops won’t be present when
Palestinians go to the polls,
Peres said.
In the second stage of the
pullout in 1996, Israel will
leave other towns and villages,
and Israelis and Palestinians
Arab Jewish
settlements settlements
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will jointly patrol rural areas.
A third troop pullback, from
rural areas, will take place in
mid-1997, Peres said.
Negotiations on the final sta
tus of the West Bank and Gaza,
in which the PLO is expected to
demand full-fledged statehood,
are to begin by May 1996.
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□ Newt Gingrich set out on a nation
al tour "To Renew America" and in
troduce himself to potential voters.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newt Gingrich, calling
himself his party’s emotional leader, embarked
Wednesday on a national book tour that coincides
with the runup to the presidential primary season.
“It’s all pure luck,” he said of the timing.
The House speaker is taking advantage of it —
both to sell books and introduce himself to poten
tial voters in friendly book-and-author settings.
“I think it will help people understand me bet
ter,” Gingrich said of his book, “To Renew Ameri
ca” in an interview with The Associated Press. The
book summarizes what he thinks ails the country
and how he would fix it.
A packed schedule of interviews, radio shows,
speeches and book signings Wednesday through
Friday in Washington and New York is a prelude
to a 25-city August tour. His stated objective is to
sell as many books as possible. But Gingrich ac
knowledges there may be spinoff benefits as well.
Gingrich has been flirting
with the idea of running for
president ever since the Repub
lican landslide last November
and his elevation in January to
the speakership. He said recent
ly he would not make a final de
cision until Dec. 15, the deadline
to file for the first-in-the-nation
New Hampshire primary.
Like anyone else, Gingrich
says, he wants to be liked by as
many people as possible. It’s un
clear whether the book and tour
will soften his image.
But any attention is good attention, the
speaker says.
“Being ignored is the worst thing. Being at
tacked is fine. Being praised is good,” he said.
“And if the usual suspects are attacking you, then
all of your side knows, ‘Oh, we must go read it.’”
Gingrich
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□ The Air Force may
have the option of
shifting the work done
at Kelly Air Force Base
to the private sector.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With
the vexing question of what to
do with the Air Force’s depots
hanging over the base-closings
process, the Pentagon is urging
President Clinton to reject an
independent commission’s list
of proposed base closings.
Defense officials, speaking
Wednesday on condition of
anonymity, said Defense Secre
tary William Perry would recom
mend that the president remand
the list to the Defense Base Clo
sure and Realignment Commis
sion with just one request for a
change: McClellan Air Force Base
in Sacramento, Calif.
The commission’s recommen
dations to close Kelly and Mc
Clellan, two of the Air Force’s
five depots, have proved the
most controversial of this fourth
round of base closures. The Air
Force argued vehemently
against any depot closures, say
ing any shutdowns would dis
rupt its repair operations.
Closure of Kelly’s depot
would cost some 13,000 jobs.
McClellan’s loss would cost an
other 12,000 jobs.
In voting June 22nd to close
Kelly’s depot, the commission did
n’t mention the possibility of
Sk@tt(£h
shifting Kelly’s work to the pri
vate sector — which would allow
San Antonio to retain thousands
of good-paying jobs.
But by last week, when the
commission’s recommendations
were forwarded in a final report
to Clinton, the language had
been amended to give the Air
Force the option of shifting Kel
ly’s work to “private sector com
mercial activities.”
The Air Force is interpreting
the commission’s action on Kel
ly as a closure, not a recom
mendation to privatize, a
spokesman said.
Allowing the Air Force to
contract out Kelly’s aircraft and
aircraft engine repair work
could allow San Antonio to
keep thousands of jobs.
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State agencies sued for
violating disabilities act
AUSTIN (AP) — Three Texas attor
neys sued two state agencies Wednes
day, claiming the buildings that house
the state's highest courts do not com
ply with the federal Americans with
Disabilities Act.
The lawsuit, filed as a class action
in a Travis County court at law, names
the General Services Commission ano
the Texas Commission of Licensing
and Regulation as defendants.
The plaintiffs - Chris Jonas, Mart
Partin and a lawyer listed only as
"T.A." in court records - claim the
Supreme Court Building, the Tor
Clark Building and the Price Daniel
Building all fail to comply with federal
law, which requires public buildingsto
be accessible to the disabled.
The buildings house the Texas
Supreme Court and the Texas Courtol
Criminal Appeals.
"Among the violations we are alleg
ing is the lack of automatic doors, ...the
existence of sinks in the bathroomstha:
exceed the maximum height require
ments and the lack of proper Braille
signs," said James C. Harrington, lega
director of the Texas Civil Rights Projec
who represents the lawyers.
FBI expert testifies at
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose-beigt
carpet fibers found on crucial evident!
could have come from O.J. Simpson:
Ford Bronco but not from the one dr-
ven by his friend Al Cowlings, an FE
expert testified Wednesday.
The identification of tiny threadsc
fabric from clothing and carpets byfi
witness Douglas Deedrick comprise:
the prosecution's most aggressiveefic
to tie up loose ends of their circurr
stantial case against Simpson.
Returning from a four-day holida
break, the agent testified about fiber;
from the clothing of the two murder
victims, from the Bronco carpetingani!
the cashmere lining of a pair of blood«
gloves. His calm testimony wovea
pattern supporting the prosecution 1 !
theory of the murders.
Deedrick used charts and pictures
of the victims' bloody clothes to ex
plain the fabric evidence to jurors.
The painstaking effort to isolate evi
dence in the case was demonstrated
by Deedrick's testimony that only one
carpet fiber was detected on each of
the items analyzed. The witness noted
however, that carpet fibers are "big"
as compared to others and are visible
to the naked eye.
Asked the significance of finding
the fibers on various items, Deem
said: "It's significant from the stand
point of transfer. ... It is possible then
to link all of these items together."
Federal Reserve considers
cutting interest rates
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Re
serve policy-makers, who staunchly
guard their independence, aren't likely
to talk openly about politics during
their deliberations this week. But with
Chairman Alan Greenspan's term up
next year, the question of whether to
cut interest rates won't be the only
matter on their minds.
Fed officials convened closed-doot
discussions Wednesday with pressure
growing to cut rates to guarantee that
the current period of economic weak
ness does not turn into a recession.
Whatever the Fed decides is likely
to be an extremely close call. Private
economists have been vacillating be
tween predictions of an immediate rate
cut and a belief that the central bank
will prefer to wait until its August
meeting because of mixed signals in
recent economic reports.
If the Fed does opt for an immedi
ate rate cut, the announcement should
come Thursday afternoon, at the dose
of the second day of deliberations by
the Federal Open Market Committee,
Right-wing punished in
government shake-up
LONDON (AP) — Armed with a
leadership race victory. Prime Ministet
John Major shook up his Cabinet on
Wednesday, giving little to his party's
bruised right wing and keeping the big
jobs for like-minded loyalists.
But apart from firing the chairman
of the governing Conservative Party
Major's approach was cautious fora
leader who just won a last chance to
save his unpopular government from
electoral disaster.
In an extensive Cabinet shuffle, Ma
jor named a trusted ally, Malcolm
Rifkind, as the foreign secretary. Rifkind
was previously defense secretary.
Michael Heseltine, the flamboyani
trade secretary and a likely contende
from the left if Tuesday's leadership
race had gone to a second ballot, wa:
named deputy prime minister.
Michael Portillo, who was poiset
to challenge Major from the rigb
wing in a second round ballot, hat
his Employment department merge'
with education and was promoted^
Defense Secretary.
Major announced the new 23
member Cabinet a day after takio
two-thirds of the vote in a challetf
for the Conservative Party leadershl
by John Redwood, a right-winger wh
quit the Cabinet to run.
Major also sacked Jeremy Hank'
the party chairman, and replaced hi r
with Brian Mawhinney, the form*
transport secretary.