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He had a reputation as a ladies’ man, and friends say he dreamed of marrying an American and finding a good job in the United States. Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, a leftist Palestinian activist with a mercurial temper, lived in the politically charged West Bank city of Hebron. A friend says relatives pooled mon ey to send him abroad, fearing he was headed for trouble at home. The divergent lives of the two Palestinians ran together in New York, where U.S. investigators say they plot ted to bomb a subway station. Khalil, 22, and Abu Mezer, 23, were arrested Thursday when po lice raided their Brooklyn apart ment. Two potential suicide-style explosive devices were found, ac cording to authorities who have charged them with conspiracy. Israel has sent secret service agents and police to New York to look into the alleged plot, an Israeli official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Islamic militants on Sunday sug gested that Khalil was an informant for Israel, using his good looks to glean information from Palestinian women. A picture pieced together from friends, family and official sources indicates the two have little in com mon except having spent time in Is raeli jails. There is no evidence they knew each other before reaching the United States. Abu Mezer left the West Bank in 1993 — the year the Israel-Palestin ian peace agreement was signed. He headed for Canada, telling a friend he wanted a “new life and a new situation.’’ The friend, who identified him self by only his first name, Hussein, said he and Abu Mezer were active in the Popular Front for the Libera tion of Palestine, which opposes Arab-Israeli peacemaking, before Abu Mezer switched to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement. “We stayed active for a year. We wrote graffiti on walls and threw stones at soldiers. We did a lot dur ing the uprising,” said Hussein, 23. “He was courageous... but is a seri ous person with a hot temper.” Abu Mezer went to Canada, ille gally crossed over the United States and applied for asylum. A week ago, Abu Mezer called his brother from New York and asked for family permission to marry his American girlfriend and bring her back to Hebron, Noor recalled. The family said that was fine. Khalil lived at the northern end of the West Bank in Ajoul, a poor grape- and olive-growing commu nity 30 miles north of Jerusalem. He spent part of his childhood in Kuwait, and in 1994 lived for a while with his parents in Jordan. In No vember 1996, he left his village again, this time for Mexico, later reaching Los Angeles and then New York. When he got to Brooklyn he was ill and pressed for money. "He may have gotten invohJ with the wrong people who took: vantage of his needing a place stay,” said an uncle, SuhailKhal Khalil worked for an Ak| owned grocery store and uncle he wanted to marry an Arc American woman. Hamas, the Muslim group that Israel blames foil Jerusalem market bombing killed 15 people last week, suggest! in a leaflet Sunday that Khalil had:[ formed on Palestinian activists in: Israeli prison and recruited PalestJbU ian women for Israel intelligence Two senior Palestinian police: lm| facials confirmed that theysuspe. ed Khalil informed on Palestine ^ J activists, but lacked evidence to: rest him. Israeli officials said they dool: ed Khalil was an informant anc: was more likely Hamas was usiii rumors about his reputation l evade blame. Spanish climbers die; Alps death toll at 29 AOSTA, Italy (AP) — Seven Alpine moun taineers died this weekend, raising to 29 the to tal number of people killed in the treacherous peaks in the last three weeks. Rescuers used helicopters Sunday to recov er the bodies of four Spanish climbers who were killed a day earlier. They were part of an expedi tion of five Spaniards who were climbing in two groups. The survivor, Ivan Muriel Jara, 28, said he watched three of his companions, tied to gether, plunge to their deaths. He and his climbing partner went tumbling down the slopes, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Muriel landed on an ice ledge, but the other man fell to his death. Helicopters lowered rescuers 260 feet and lifted Miiliel to safety. Police in the Alpine town of Courmayeur, where the bodies of Muriel’s four companions were taken, identified the dead as Ignacio Come Duenas, 26; Patricio Guerra Fernandez, 23, and Federico Mera Miranda, 23, all from Seville, and Rafael Castillo Luque, 28, from Cordoba. A German from another expedition died Sat urday in a hospital after he fell from the Italian side of Mont Blanc, authorities reported. Ulrich Cristophe Kinkel, 32, had been climb ing Mont Blanc with a Spaniard companion, Juan Luis Fuente, ANSA said. The 25-year-old Spaniard was rescued and is recovering. Authorities said snow and cold, coupled with exhaustion and inexperience, probably con tributed to the accidents. The 15,750-foot Mont Blanc, on the bor ders of France, Italy and Switzerland, isom of Europe’s most visited peaks. Evenexpe rienced climbers die on its icy cliffs ever) year, victims of unpredictable weather hidden crevasses. TWo climbers died July 12 and fourmoredied July 30. A Russian and a French climber also diedin the Alps on Sunday. The 29-year-old woman was crushed under falling rockwhie climbing at 11,500 feet in France near Swiss border. The French climber was kil on a Swiss glacier. The latest deaths bring the total nurabeni people who have died in the Alps to 29 sincetk' middle of July. Last year, 98 people died in the Swiss Alps, according to the Swiss AlpineQub. tie icenl pas | even inatij iuit s c Otiur he ter a| d to I t’sdirl roperj 'time tesj mi Israel braces for more attacks, detains suspects JERUSALEM (AP) — On alert for more suicide bombings, Israel mounted a tough blockade on Palestinian areas Sunday and de ployed soldiers, bomb squads and extra police in major cities. A Palestinian was shot and killed near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. On edge after Wednesday’s dou ble suicide bombing that killed 15 people and wounded more than 150, citizens flooded police switch boards with calls Sunday. A TV an chor had urged viewers to report suspicious objects or people. “We have indications that there will be more attempts at terror ism,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS television. “We are unfortunately prepared for the worst.” The last two victims of Wednes day’s attack, Grigory Pesachovich, 15, and Mark Rabinovich, 81, were buried Sunday in Jerusalem. In a violent incident likely to in flame tensions in the West Bank, a 57-year-old man from the Pales tinian village ofYata in the Hebron area was shot and killed Sunday. Israel’s Channel 2 TV quoted eye witnesses as saying the man was shot from a passing car that had Is raeli license plates. He staggered to the entrance of the settlement of Carmel near Hebron, where he died, the report said. Israel radio identified the victim as Issa Jebril Missaf and quoted lo cal Palestinians as saying the car es caped into Carmel. In the wake of Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market, Israel has questioned and detained dozens of Palestinians. The army said Sunday that it had detained 37 Palestinians suspected of “terrorist activity” in a sweep of the West Bank late Saturday and early Sunday. Soldiers and police maintained a heavy presence in maj or cities Sunday. Long lines of cars waited at road blocks leading into Jerusalem, in cluding a bride in her wedding dress, as soldiers checked identity cards and peered into trunks. Inside the city, bomb squads and police snarled traffic as they checked out the reports about suspicious objects. ^ ^ We have indica tions that there will be more attempts at terrorism. Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv is sued a warning to Americans in Is rael, recommending that they avoid downtown areas of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other major cities, especially crowded bus stations and markets. A Palestinian wedding had to be postponed Sunday when the bride was unable to get to the ceremony in her husband’s village of Abovd from her home in the West town of Ramallah. “ Maybe I won’t meet my husband tonight,” said 19-year-old Moussa, dressed in a white gown as she stood at the roadblock holding a bouquet of flowers. “It is very cruel of them topre vent a bride from going through checkpoint. What wrong have# done?” The army not only barred trave into Israel but also prevented move ment between Palestinian cities. Palestinians criticized the Israel measures as collective punishment Jj e d ^ “Israel has not identified tliesui- cide bombers ... but hasrushedto blame the Palestinian Authorityfe the attack and imposed a seriesof collective punishment measures an editorial in the Palestinian.ki Quds daily said Sunday. Leaflets in the name of the Mus lim militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, Hamas leaders have cast doublet the authenticity of the claim. rlyde ainec ithe rem| othe Sing? Dance? Stuff golf balls in your mouth? Register to entertain us at MSC Open House. It’ll make you popular. Just stop by the Student Programs Office on the second floor of the MSC and fill out a form. .MUM. Application Deadline is Friday. September S as 5;00 pm Cancellation deadline is Wednesday, September 4, 1997 at 5:00 pm Sponsored by MSC Public Relations. Your Student Union 845-1515 Preparations underway for Mir repair mission BAIKONUR, Kazakstan (AP) —A powerful rocket that will carry cos monauts and repair equipment to the hobbled Mir space station rolled to the launch pad Sunday — its last stop before Tuesuay’s liftoff. A team of some 400 experts will check the rocket and its capsule be fore it blasts off from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome. “The cosmonauts know the work before them and we have no doubt that they’ll fulfill the orders they have been given,” said Gen. Yevge ny Kulnikov, chief of Russia’s mili tary space program. U.S. astronaut David Wolf will travel to Mir next month via space shuttle Atlantis. He was a late sub stitute for 5-foot-3 Wendy Lawrence, who was too small to wear the Russian spacesuit she would need if she had to make a spacewalk. Kulnikov and other top names of Russia’s military-run space program were at Baikonur to witness the cer emonial rolling-out of the 300- booster rocket that is to sendtfc Soyuz-TM-26 space capsule to i rendezvous with Mir. The rocket and capsule, place- on a transport train, slowly covered the 3-mile distance to thelaunchin! pad — the same one from whid Yuri Gagarin blasted off for thefc manned space flight in 1961. “Can you believe a mind beh^ such a technological creation' asked veteran cosmonaut Alexar der Serebryakov. “Forty years in of eration and still one of the bestwaf to get to space.” Tuesday’s launch could do rntf to restore confidence in Russia’s a: ing space program and the Mir station, a necessary step in restoring the country’s reputatid as a space superpower. The mission is aimed a repaj ing damage to Mir’s modua which ruptured and lost half power in a collision June 25 wib cargo ship. . fpus inter fcutil wpoi w 'tkfSten leeJ flio J Hine