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ider crammed with notes are
I ingredients in President Clin-
is preparations for Sunday’s
doff debate with Bob Dole.
Already, though, Clinton’s
ns have been thrown off by the
irst violence between Palestini-
sand Israelis since the 1967
deast war.
The president was to have had
ight schedule this week, with
nday and Monday off, to allow
ae for debate study. That
anged, though, when Clinton
ited Mideast leaders to an
lergency White House meeting
hiesday to try to restore peace.
[The president has to order
priorities as he sees fit and
is is his priority, right now,”
esidential spokesman Mike
Curry said.
Even so, Clinton is expected to
into seclusion beginning
ursday somewhere in the mid
antic states — New Jersey, per-
ps—to cram and practice for
first 90-minute debate, begin-
agat 9 p.m. EDT in Hartford,
l, on Sunday.
“It's important to get his head
this and that he’s not tired,” a
nior adviser said. “It’s impor-
Jtthat we get him down.”
After some last-minute squab-
esover the debate format, an
ireement was signed Saturday
king in the details of two presi-
ntial debates — Oct. 6 and Oct.
-and one vice presidential
bate, Oct. 9.
)ole: Welfare
tou Id create
work for poor
■ The following are the
stvers of the major presiden-
fcandidates to the question:
>oyou favor providing tax in-
ntives for companies to hire
id train homeless people who
mtto work?”
NTHE ISSUES m
AMPAIGN
Bill Clinton
“By creating partnerships be-
een the federal government
local communities, small
sinesses and ordinary citi-
us, we can renew economic
ivity in our disadvantaged ur-
nand rural areas. My empow-
nent zone initiative offers $3.5
lion in tax incentives and flex-
e block grants to encourage
'W private investment in 104
onomically distressed com-
unities across America. We
ivealso created a national net-
rkof non-traditional commu-
ty banks which uses federal
d money to leverage billions
dollars more in private capital
community renewal.”
Bob Dole
“The fundamental focus of
dfare reform must be the pro-
otion of work and personal re-
pnsibility. State governments,
cal communities, churches,
charitable organizations can
ten be effective at addressing
«poverty problem. The federal
'vemment must give these in-
putions the tools they need to
[Uhe job done.”
Ross Perot
The tax code shouldn’t be
[ted with provisions for every
fferent cause. Businesses
Quid recruit and train the
meless who are capable of
ork. This should be part of a
« r ge movement of businesses
. 0v * n £ ^ nt0 t ^ ie i nner cities an d
f i fering new opportunities to
e urban poor.”
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Monday • September 30, 1996
Clinton calls summit to
ease mideast tensions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dis
tressed over a resurgence of old
tensions that “spun out of control”
in the Middle East, President Clin
ton said he will convene Israeli and
Palestinian leaders this week to
discuss restoring peace.
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne
tanyahu of Israel and Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat agreed to meet
in Washington this week in an at
tempt to prevent fighting that has
killed dozens of people from de
stroying the peace process.
“I think they’re both concerned
about the way events spun out of
control, about the loss of life, the
injury, the eruption of old ten
sions and bitterness,” Clinton said
Sunday. "I believe they want to try
to get beyond that. I don’t think
they would be coming here if they
didn’t.”
King Hussein of Jordan and
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak also were invited to the
Washington meeting, Clinton
said. Hussein agreed to come, he
said, but Mubarak has not said
whether he will.
Clinton spoke by telephone for
about 10 minutes each Sunday af
ternoon with Arafat, Netanyahu,
Mubarak and Hussein. White
House spokesman Mike McCurry
said Clinton particularly wanted to
thank Netanyahu and Arafat for
accepting his invitation and to “en
courage them to come to Washing
ton in a frame of mind that allows
progress to be made.”
Palestinians were hoping that
Mubarak would attend. “Egypt’s
role is important, and we don’t
like to think of being there with
out President Mubarak,” Nabil
jij “I think they're
Jj both concerned
jj about the way
I events spun out
I of control...”
President Clinton
Shaath, the Palestinian minister
of planning, said on CBS’ “Face
the Nation.”
Mubarak tentatively sent word
of a scheduling conflict. But his
foreign minister, Amr Moussa, said
on U.S. television that a Mubarak
no-show could be blamed on Is
raeli behavior in recent weeks.
Mubarak is annoyed that the
situation in Israel “reached that
level of insensitivity to the Arab
people and the Arab feelings,”
Moussa said, also on CBS.
“President Mubarak is definitely
upset at the negative develop
ments that have occurred and that
the peace process, as it is, is really
teetering. It is not in good shape af
all,” Moussa said.
The Washington meeting, ten
tatively scheduled for Tuesday, will
focus on “relevant issues here to
the recent violence,” Clinton told
reporters in the White House’s
Rose Garden.
He did not say whether the is
sues included reopening Sunday of
an 500-yard-long archaeological
tunnel that runs near religious
sites sacred to both Muslims and
Jews. Upgrades on the passage
were completed last week, and
that triggered a Palestinian reac
tion that fed the most violent bat
tles between Israelis and Arabs
since the 1967 Middle East war.
The United States has implied
criticism of the original opening
of the tunnel, but Clinton avoided
mention of it Sunday. As he
turned to leave the Rose Garden
on Sunday, Clinton ignored a re
porter’s question on Israel’s deci
sion to reopen it.
Israel reopens tunnel Sunday
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel de
fied world opinion Sunday by re
opening a tunnel near Jerusalem’s
Muslim holy shrines, but agreed to
a summit with the Palestinians in
Washington in an attempt to revive
peace talks and end the violence
that has taken 73 lives.
President Clinton telephoned
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
and Israeli Prime Minister Ben
jamin Netanyahu and told them he
expected their summit Tuesday to
end in success.
“The president said the results
needed from the meeting in Wash
ington are an end to the violence
and speedy renewal of negotia
tions,” a statement from Ne
tanyahu’s office said.
Although the reopening of the
tunnel kept Palestinian anger run
ning high, Clinton’s personal inter
vention was seen as likely to calm
passions on both sides and renew
hopes for progress.
Arafat and Netanyahu initially
refused to make concessions that
would allow the summit to go
ahead, but Israel’s Channel 2 TV
said a possible compromise was
emerging.
Arafat, it said, would pledge to
end the violence and stop object
ing to the tunnel, while Netanyahu
would agree to a timetable for fu
ture negotiations and a date for Is
rael’s military pullout from the
West Bank city of Hebron.
One remaining obstacle was the
role of Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. Clinton invited him to
attend, and Arafat insisted the
Egyptian be there, but Mubarak
did not agree to go.
The 500-meter tunnel is por
trayed by Israel as a harmless ar
chaeological excavation, but it
runs alongside hallowed Muslim
shrines and is seen by Palestinians
as diminishing their claim to Arab
east Jerusalem.
Israel opened the tunnel on
Tuesday night, triggering clashes
that left 56 Palestinians and 14 Is-
Historic tunnel
Israel reopened an archaeological tunnel
near Muslim holy shrines Sunday, which
last week triggered a violent reaction
between Israelis and Arabs.
Via Dolorosa
Christians believe Jesus walked here
on the way to his crucifixion.
Tunnel
re-opened
Iron Gate
Western
Wall plaza
Dome of
the Rock
Third holiest
site in Islam
Temple
Mount
raelis dead in the worst gunbattles
they have waged in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip in 29 years. Three
Egyptian soldiers also were killed
by stray bullets that crossed the
Gaza-Egypt border.
Israel closed the tunnel Friday
and Saturday, hoping to restore
calm, and reopened it Sunday. Ne
tanyahu vowed Saturday night that
the tunnel “will always be open.”
Late Saturday, the U.N. Security
Council passed a resolution that
indirectly calls on Israel to close
the tunnel. The vote was 14-0, with
the United States abstaining.
Arab teen-agers threw stones
Sunday as Israeli guards opened
the steel exit door of the passage
leading onto the Via Dolorosa, Je
sus’s route to his crucifixion.
But the riots had died down by
Sunday in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli soldiers, backed by tanks,
had laid siege to the Palestinian ar
eas, and Arafat’s 30,000-member
police force kept demonstrators
away from Israeli army positions.
If the violence escalates, Ne
tanyahu spokesman David Bar-Il-
lan said Israel may consider dis
arming the Palestinian policemen.
Hundreds of Arafat’s police were
involved in last week’s gunbattles.
Nabil Shaath, a senior Palestin
ian negotiator, accused Netanyahu
of triggering the violence by open
ing the tunnel without consulting
the Palestinians and by stalling the
peace process.
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