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For more information go to :aggienet.tamu.edu/cctr W The Battalion ORLD Tuesday • September 16,19S p uesc | a y Settlers take over buildings in Arab neighborhood in Jerusalen T1 JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish ex tremists hooked up rooftop sur veillance cameras Monday in an Arab neighborhood they moved into under the cover of darkness, staking a claim on a part of Jerusalem the Palestinians want for a future capital. Prime Minister Benjamin Ne tanyahu awaited word Monday from Israel’s attorney general on whether he can evict the settlers, who occu pied two buildings on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. But he warned it would be difficult to take any action against them. Less than 24 hours after entering the Ras al-Amud neighborhood, home to 11,000 Palestinians, the 11 settlers prepared for a long stay, bringing in pots of steaming food and covering floors with mattresses. Dozens of troops were posted near by to protect them. Outside the compound, Israeli peace activists and Palestinian resi dents set up a tent covered with plac ards that read: “Kick the settlers out of Ras al-Amud.” The settler action threatened to trigger new confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians at a time when both sides are trying to restore trust following last week’s visit by Sec retary of State Madeleine Albright. “It comes at a time when the last thing we need is another crisis,” Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said. “We feel that the ex tremists once again are trying not just to put obstacles in the path of peace, but to ignite a powder keg.” Ras al-Amud is located in an area of east Jerusalem claimed by the Palestinians as the capital of a frrture state. The settlers’ supporters, in cluding Cabinet hawk Ariel Sharon, said a Jewish bridgehead there would break up the continuity ofAi neighborhoods. Located just outside the walls the Old City, Ras al-Amud c panoramic view of the gold-i Dome of the Rock Mosque, oneol lam’s holiest shrines. The settlers leased the builds from Irving Moskowitz, a Miami go millionaire who owns 3 l/2ai in Ras al-Amud and hopes event ly to build a Jewish neighborhoos 'j 50 apartments there. The settlers say that Moskot purchased all the homes I moved into from their Arabos ers several days ago. Howe Palestinians say that one of homes was still being rentedin Arab family of eight, allofwli were out visiting friends at time of the takeover Sundaynij It was not clear what happenei that family’s belongings. H owdy, famili out liJ Well, mayt ard Aggies v\ ove. To the rest ion on camp anet), “Hov\ i shout out at quare dance The first ti Albright urges renewed peace talks" BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — On a visit to Beirut un der tight security, Secretary of State Madeleine Al bright said Monday that she found “a willingness and desire” to resume Mideast peace talks in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. She urged Lebanese leaders to resume negotia tions with Israel but said she recognized that those talks should be in line with Israel’s talks with Syria, which dominates Lebanon’s politics. Albright’s unannounced trip to Beirut came during an escalation in fighting between the Israeli army and Shiite Muslims in south Lebanon, and she said the vi olence showed the desperate need for peace. “The recent tragic violence in the south of your country has underlined for all concerned that the sta tus quo is not acceptable,” she said in a speech to aca demics, business leaders and others in Beirut. Albright’s visit to Lebanon ended a weeklong tour of the Middle East — her first to the region as secre tary of state — that also took her to Israel, the Pales tinian territories, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. She earlier conceded she made only small steps to ward restarting talks between Israelis and Palestini ans. Regarding Israeli negotiations with Syria and Lebanon, she said there was a need “to talk further about further talks.” But Albright added that in Jerusalem, Damascus and Beirut, “I have found in each of the three gov ernments a willingness and desire to resume ne gotiations.” Expressing American determination to push peace, she added: “In the absence of a peace elevas we are methodically taking the stairs.” Albright noted that U.S. officials will meetiv Lebanese, Syrian and Israeli officials in New York! er this month. “We will see whether the ... mutual interest progress is matched by a mutual willingness toa sider seriously each others’ views," she said. Albright talked about a possible trip to Lebai throughout her tour, but no decision was mad' nal until her plane landed Monday on theeaste Mediterranean island of Cyprus after a flightfn Jordan. She flew aboard a U.S. helicopter to theforti U.S. Embassy compound in the Beirut suburb Aukar, and then went in a heavily guarded moton to the presidential palace in Baahda, anothersute " In an hour-long meeting with President E Hrawi, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Foreign5 ister Paris Bweiz, the secretary urged renewingpe; talks with Israel. “The Lebanese-Israeli track is absolutelyessem for a comprehensive Middle East peace settleiM she said. "We must go forward on all tracks.” But she added the various talks "shouldbeat proximately the same pace,” assuring Syria thatWas ington would not divert Lebanon into a separatedi with Israel as it did in the 1980s — only to have Da: ascus torpedo the accord. 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Sinn Lein leader Gerry Adams, surrounded by party comrades, passed through gates that had been locked to them when the talks on Northern Ireland’s political future began in June 1996. “We do think that this could be the beginning of the end of con flict on this island, if the political will is there to build agreement,” Adams said. Sinn Lein was admit ted after the outlawed IRA stopped its violent campaign against British rule of Northern Ireland eight weeks ago. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, whose party represents a critical third of Northern Ireland opinion, boycotted the talks at Cas tle Buildings, a drab office block within the British administrative center in east Belfast. As expected, the two most hard line Protestant parties, Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists and Bob Mc Cartney’s United Kingdom Union ists, failed to show up Monday. TWo small but influential parties linked to pro-British paramilitary gangs also refused to participate. Paisley, however, submitted a motion in absentia calling for Sinn Lein’s expulsion. The chairman of “We do think that this could be the beginning of the end of conflict on this island, if the polith cal will is there to build an agreement.” GERRY ADAMS SINN FEIN LEADER the talks, former U.S. Senate Major ity Leader George Mitchell, dis missed it because the plaintiffs weren’t there. Three miles away, Trimble invited the British government’s political de velopment minister, Paul Murphy, to his party’s downtown headquarters. The two discussed what Trimble called “the precise procedural arrangements for our involvement in the multi-party talks.” Trimble said he would lead the Ulster Unionists into negotiations involving Sinn Lein “as soon as pos sible,” but is looking for assurances that his party’s views won’t be over ruled or ignored. Before that meeting, British Prime Minister Tony Blair andl Prime Minister Bertie Ahern ready had offered Trimble vaii assurances. Their joint statement eif sized that the disarmament of IRA and pro-British paramil groups was “an indispensablep of negotiations, and any prop: settlement must win majority} lie approval within Northern land. That is critical to the 111 Unionists, who were instrumf in founding the predominii Protestant state in 1920. Inside the negotiating r# moderate politicians fromfomi ties grilled Adams about thei worth of his formal renunciatio: violence. Adams made the pit last Tuesday — a requirement!) negotiators — but the IRA spot said it wouldn’t agree to the ten Adams, reputed to be a for IRA commander, insistedSinnl has no “organic” connectionto policies. Other politicians in room were skeptical. “The process would have!) greatly strengthened if Sinnl would admit that it did reprei the IRA, and so could deliver peace,” said John Alderdice,!® of Alliance, the only party to tract support from Protestants) Catholics. The Stones were right. Time is on your side. 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