mrsday • August 1, 1997
'alestinians prepare for feared Israeli invasion
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JERUSALEM (AP) —Yasser Arafat told his peo-
Wednesday to “prepare for battle,” saying the
rstisyet to come in crippling Israeli sanctions,
dy trained Palestinian fighters declared them-
?es ready to meet a feared Israeli invasion.
(Harmed Jordanian leaders urged both sides
*one down the tough talk in the Israeli-Pales-
ian crisis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sus-
ided peace talks, ordered mass arrests,
i eco Jj mped a travel ban on the West Bank and Gaza
p halted the transfer of vital tax revenues to
fat’s self-rule government in the week since
cide bombers killed themselves and 13 others
crowded Jerusalem market.
"Prepare for battle that Netanyahu is forcing
us, because what is coming is worse than
at has already been,” Arafat said in Gaza, at a
e |J etingwith leaders of his Fatah faction of the
^ estine Liberation Organization.
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, members
’atah burned Israeli and LLS. flags during a
duation ceremony for a course in weapons-
idling and street combat.
[he50 graduates were trained to confront Is-
i forces if they try to enter the Palestinian-
itrolled cities, Palestinian officials said. Hard-
within Netanyahu’s government
•jtj| ortedlyhave urged him to take that step.
Netanyahu said that he was ready to ease up
LJ rafat clamps down on terror.
"If I had to say what is the indispensable step
aving peace, it is for the Palestinian Authori
ty to take firm and decisive and immediate steps
against the infrastructure of terrorism,” Ne
tanyahu said after meeting with Jordan’s Crown
Prince Hassan and Prime Minister Abdel-Salam
Majali in Jerusalem.
^ ^ Prepare for battle that
Netanyahu is forcing on us,
because what is coming is
worse that what has aheady
been.”
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian leader
Hassan countered that militants should not
be allowed to sabotage the peace process. “Clear
ly the possibilities of extremism destroying and
derailing the process are many,” he said.
Netanyahu—who before the bombings faced
American pressure to freeze settlement building
in a gesture to the Palestinians — is apparently
waiting for the arrival this weekend of U.S. enyoy
Dennis Ross before making any concessions.
Earlier, ringed by security forces, he lit a
memorial candle and recited a prayer for the
dead in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market.
“If he’ll keep his side of the bargain, we’ll keep
our side of the bargain,” he said — drawing yells
from the crowd of: “The people are with you.”
Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian leg
islature, called an emergency session for Satur
day to discuss Israel’s crackdown.
Leaflets bearing the name of the militant
group Hamas claimed responsibility for the at
tack and threatened a new wave of bombings.
Israel had yet to identify the two suicide
bombers, and Palestinian officials believe they
came from abroad.
The Arabic newspaper Al-Ayyam reported
Wednesday that a news service in Nicosia,
Cyprus, received an anonymous call saying the
bombers were Palestinians from the south
Lebanon refugee camp Ein el-Hilweh.
Arafat adviser Ahmed Tibi said that when it
becomes clear the bombers didn’t come from ar
eas under Palestinian rule, “Netanyahu should
personally apologize to Yasser Arafat and pay
compensation for all the economic losses that re
sulted from the cruel siege.” •
Netanyahu, however, said Israel believed that
the bombers had at least received orders from
militants in the Palestinian-controlled areas.
Israel wants Arafat to hand over wanted
men, rearrest Palestinians released from Pales
tinian jails, disarm Islamic militants and arrest
their leaders, stop anti-Israel propaganda, re
sume intelligence-sharing and fire the Pales
tinian police chief.
inn Fein, Northern Ireland meet for peace talks
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)
Britain’s governor for Northern
land welcomed Sinn Fein leader
ny Adams for their first-ever di
talks Wednesday just 16 days af-
the IRA’s truce.
Most pro-British Protestant
ders have refused to meet with
amswhen talks on Northern Ire-
id's future resume next month at
irmont, Britain’s administrative
Qter.with Sinn Fein participating
1 the first time.
But Northern Ireland Secretary
Mowlam sat down for 21/2 hours
ls ' 1 (dnesday with Adams and other
* ambers of his IRA-allied party.
I took the opportunity to tell Sinn
in face-to-face that I was pleased
e IRA had declared a cease-fire,”
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liilding. The plaque reads,
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[He estimates that 250 people
attend, but he hopes for
lore.
r'We want this place packed,”
lark said.
Jpiark said the fair lets the
lokstore show its appreciation
fits customers.
“The fair is a good way to thank
lM students, staff and faculty for
Mowlam said after the session.
The haste of the first Mowlam-
Adams meeting contrasts sharply
with the go-slow approach of the
previous Conservative govern
ment. Its Northern Ireland secre
tary, Sir Patrick MayheVv, did not
meet Adams until after nine
months of Irish Republican Army
truce — and then only when pres
sured by Washington.
Wednesday’s meeting is among a
long list of milestones that measure
Adams’ gradual entry into the politi
cal mainstream since his days as a re
puted IRA commander in the 1970s.
Nonetheless, all three major
Protestant parties criticized the
meeting. Two said they wouldn’t
come to the talks next month, while
Department of Texas Board of
Trustees.”
After the building is torn down
and another is built (to be com
pleted sometime in 1999), the
A&M Foundation will move in.
The groundbreaking ceremony
will be on Sept. 25.
UPD and the environmental
health department will move to a
building at Research Park.
buying from us,” he said.
Clark said he and Kapusniak
came up with the idea for the fair
at one of Kapusniak’s local book
signings.
They wanted to have an event
where people could taste low-fat
food in the Brazos Valley.
Clark said a cooperative effort
among managers of the book
store made the fair possible.
Clark said that if this fair is
successful, the bookstore may do
it yearly.
the largest party, the Ulster Unionists,
said it wouldn’t meet with Sinn Fein.
Adams said he pressed Mowlam
to oversee a negotiating process
that would end
British rule and
unify Northern
Ireland with the
rest of Ireland.
That’s a tall or
der, given the
demands by
Northern Ire
land’s pro-
British Protes
tant majority for
continued union with Britain.
“Unionists are an intrinsic part
of Ireland. Republicans don’t want
you to leave it, nor do we wish to
Adams
dominate you,” Adams said in an
appeal to the Protestants afterward.
Joining Adams were Sinn Fein
chief negotiator Martin McGuinness,
who like Adams won a seat in British
Parliament in May; Caoimhghin O
Caolain, the party’s only member of
the Dail, the Irish parliament; and
Martin Ferris, paroled from prison
three years ago after trying to smug
gle weapons into Ireland from Amer
ica in 1984.
Mowlam, who took office in
May following the Labor election
victory, confirmed that both sides
discussed key Sinn Fein concerns,
including transferring 25 IRA pris
oners incarcerated in England and
early parole for several hundred
IRA prisoners in Northern Ireland.
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[ ’Morales’ office had argued that
[lose bringing the lawsuit would
lave to prove exceptional circum-
lances to require the involuntary
ptimony of high-ranking officials.
In addition, Dusek said the attor-
|ey general “has no information he
fuld provide them in regard to the
pislation and policies and such.”
A provision in the state budget
lie to take effect Sept. 1 prohibits
[ayment of salary and benefits to any
late government employee who
Irves as an expert witness or con-
[iltant in a lawsuit against the state.
The Texas A&M University Sys-
lm policy allows outside employ-
jient if it doesn’t bring an employ-
einto conflict with the interests of
|e state.
The Texas Faculty Association
fcssaid the policy and law “clearly
lolate the right of free speech, the
Ight of association, and the acad
emic freedom of any faculty mem
ber who wishes to consult or serve
as an expert witness in litigation
against the state of Texas or any of
its subdivisions.”
State lawmakers have defended
the provision in the state budget,
saying it’s in line with what private
employers expect of workers.
“You’re either working for us, or
you’re not. If you’re working for us,
your loyalty should be to the state.
If you’re working for the taxpayers,
your loyalty should be to the tax
payers,” Rep. Pete Gallego, D-
Alpine, who sponsored the provi
sion, has said.
Gallego has said the budget pro
vision wouldn’t cover the tobacco
lawsuit instigated by Morales be
cause it applies to litigation filed
against the state.
Texas A&M University System
spokeswoman Terri Parker has
said Hoover’s plans to testify for
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ethics policy.
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An outside researcher ques-
ned the findings, saying another
ijor teen survey had not seen de-
: ased drug use.
“1 would urge considerable caution
interpreting these data,” said Lloyd
lohnston, researcher on the Uni-
% of Michigan’s drug use survey.
That survey, which collects data
-h school year, showed no de-
: ase in teen drug use through April
^6, and it found sharp increases in
marijuana use, Johnston said.
The government survey covered
all of 1996, so a sharp decrease in
the later months of the year could
explain the discrepancy.
“I’d like to see more confirma
tion before I suggest anyone break
out the champagne,” Johnston said.
Government officials, stung by
last year’s report, also were sober.
McCaffrey said he doesn’t believe
youth attitudes are changing “in any
serious way.”
“If you talk to high school kids to
day ... the group ethic tends to be
pro-drug,” he said.
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