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Hamas makes trucqy
resumes peace talk
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) —The
newly released spiritual leader of
Hamas — the militant Islamic group
whose trademark is the suicide
bomb—made a tentative truce offer
Tuesday, saying the group would halt
such bombings if Israel stops “attacks
against our civilians.”
Sheik Ahmed Yassin’s offer, cau
tiously welcomed by Israel, signaled
a potential shift in his group’s dedi
cation to the destruction of Israel.
The blind, wheelchair-bound cler
ic made his comments at his Gaza
home, where he received Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat, who kissed the
61 -year-old Hamas leader repeatedly.
Yassin’s overture came as Israel
and the Palestinians resumed peace
negotiations Tuesday after a seven-
month hiatus. Lower-level commit
tees met to discuss relatively minor
issues, but U.S. envoy Dennis Ross
said the new start meant both sides
wanted “to see a new page turned.”
The renewed peace talks and
Yassin’s triumphant return to Gaza
after eight years in an Israeli jail
have been all but overshadowed by
scandal: an Israeli official con
firmed Tuesday that Israel received
a cease-fire proposal from Hamas
two days before Israel’s botched as
sassination attempt on a Hamas
leader in Jordan.
That bungled hit two weeks ago
has damaged relations with Jordan,
Israel’s staunchest ally in the Arab
world, and forced Israeli Prime Min
ister Benjamin Netanyahu to make
concessions — including Yassin’s re
lease — that have undermined his
get-tough stance toward terrorism.
Netanyahu has been harshly criti
cized for approving the operation.
Ross held separate meetings
Tuesday with Netanyahu and Arafat
following three-way talks Monday
night with Israeli Foreign Minister
David Levy and Arafat’s deputy
Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel radio and television report
ed the U.S. envoy was trying to
arrange a meeting Tliesday night be
tween Netanyahu and Arafat, but
those reports could not be confirmed.
Yassin, who returned to a hero’s
welcome in Gaza on Monday, said
any halt to attacks would be condi
tioned on a full Israeli withdrawal
from occupied lands.
David Bar-Ilian, a senior aide to
Netanyahu, called the terms!
ceptable — but he said
Yassin’s overture was made
represented “a positive char:
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Cuban congress reasserts socialisnf
HAVANA (AP) —The last time Cuba’s Communists
held a congress, their party appeared on the ropes: The
Soviet Union was collapsing, shortages of food and
fuel were spreading and a defiant Fidel Castro vowed
to save the country.
Six years later, food and fuel are still scarce and the
economy’s recovery from crisis is slowing, but the Com
munists sit firmly in control as they prepare to meet
again Wednesday, setting policy that will guide the coun
try until 2002, when President Castro will be 76.
Judging from party statements, big changes are not
in store.
“There are no new proposals” of significance, said
Phillip Brenner, a Cuba specialist at the American Uni
versity in Washington, D.C.
Draft statements for the Fifth Party Congress reaf
firm a single-party socialist system, reject foreign
claims of human rights violations and insist on a state-
dominated socialist economy.
The 1991 congress was held in an atmosphe
crisis. The socialist bloc that aided and traded
Cuba had crumbled, and the Soviet Union itselfv
collapse within weeks.
Cuba’s economic output plunged by atleast35
cent over the next three years, and the countir
tantly embraced a series of market-oriented refoi
create jobs and attract foreign investment andtoi
The government has slowed the pace ofrefom
last year clamped down on domestic dissent asrek:
with the United States became even more embiitf
The party’s meeting this week also appearsiti
sert Cuba’s socialist system will survive the chaos
ated by the fall of its allies.
The congress, held roughly every five years si
1975, should see the president’s most impoi
speech in months. Castro recently has shunned
spotlight, making only one major appearance
early August.
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