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World Thursday • February 26, Fighting breaks out on West Bank KALANDIA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In a scene remi niscent of the six-year intefadeh, Palestinians battered Israeli army jeeps with stones from rooftops to day, and Israeli troops fired live rounds as they came to the rescue of a trapped soldier. The clashes began after the army sealed off the main entrance to the Kalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem, the site of frequent stone throwing incidents in recent days. Palestinian residents of the camp pelted army jeeps with stones, and Israeli soldiers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Some tear gas canisters landed near a girls’ school in the camp. The jeeps left after coming under a barrage of rocks, leaving behind one soldier who took refuge in a Palestinian shop. The soldier fired AP/Wm. J. Gastello live bullets at the rock-throwers, the shopkeeper said. Several dozen soldiers returned, firing live bullets to keep back the crowd, and got the soldier out of the shop. The soldiers then took up po sitions on rooftops as the rock throwing subsided. Fistfights broke out, and there was sporadic shooting as the sol diers arrested five Palestinians. One Palestinian fell to the ground after being beaten by sever al Israeli soldiers. His condition was not immediately known. The army sealed the entrance to the camp on Tuesday night with nine-foot-high cement blocks. “No one can get in or out — it is exactly like the days of the inte fadeh,” said Hamdi Shaheen, a 19- year-old resident. “When they do this to us they are telling us they want the intefadah back — and we are willing to give it to them.” Hurling stones at Israeli vehi cles driving through the West Bank was a trademark of the six- year intefadeh, or uprising, against Israeli rule. After the 1993 autonomy accord, stone-throw ing incidents decreased. Earlier today, Israeli soldiers ar rested six Palestinians in a sweep of three West Bank villages after a spate of stone-throwing at troops and Jewish settlers. The army said the Palestinians o' '\\/ Areas of contrqf fTI Palestinian civ Israeli securityj I I Total Israeli IS Total Palestinfian Tel Aviv> Mediterranean Sea IS miles 15 km i Jenin Nablys Tulkarem West Bank Ramallah Jerusalem Bethlehem Hebron np® Jen Strip ISRAEL were detained in the villages of Kalandia and Jalazoun, north of the autonomous city of Ramallah, and in the village of El Aroub, north of Hebron. The arrests seemed intended to show Palestinians that Israel does not intend to give up security con trol of the villages around Ramallah and Hebron in the next handover of West Bank territory. Israeli-Palestinian peace negoti ations have stalled over the extent of next Israeli troop pullback. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed an offer to hold Camp David-style talks under U.S. auspices to try and reach a permanent peace agreement with the Palestinians. New Zealand city without electricitj for sixth day, may return Monda 4 German brewer offers beer as bath water additive NEUZELLE, Germany (AP) — Can’t afford a champagne bath? Tired of floral-scented bubbles? A German brewer has the answer: bathing beer. The Kloster brewery in Neuzelle, 60 miles southeast of Berlin, plans to begin selling three-quart bottles of dark beer concentrate next month. Mixed with water, four bottles, at $22 each, are enough to fill the average 32-gallon tub. The only difference between the beer concentrate and the normal drinking suds is that the yeast, normal ly filtered out, is left in, brewery owner Helmut Fritsche said Wednesday. That makes the bath soothing to the skin and also a great treatment for eczema, he said. “The usual foam baths are made of synthetic ingre dients, while our beer is a purely natural product,” he said. “You can bathe in it, or drink it. Whoever wants to can do both.” AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — The only hum and throb in downtown Auckland these days is the sound of diesel generators bat tling the blackout. The only bustle is fuel trucks refilling them. Otherwise the streets of New Zealand’s largest city are nearly de serted, its shops and offices shut tered by a power failure now in Day 6 — and counting. Indoors, New Zealanders fum ble in the dark, drag themselves up the stairs of high-rises whose ele vators are idled, turn up their noses at heat-soured milk — and blame the city officials who let growth out strip the overworked electric com pany’s ability to keep up. “Its been very busy,” said one diesel trucker, Ron Nolan, as he ran a greasy finger down a ledger and tallied 150 fuel stops in the past 24 hours. Downtown Auckland is almost a ghost town, the victim of a self-in flicted disaster —all four under ground power cables supplying electricity to downtown from a hy droelectric plant south of the city have been out of order since Friday. This city of one million people has grown for years — but growth has outstripped infrastructure. When the strained cables started failing, power company Mercury Energy had no backup system. The first cable failed on Jan. 22, the sec ond on Feb. 9, the third and fourth on Feb. 19 and 20. The company’s aging cables were stressed in a recent heat wave. Mercury’s energy director John Collinge also said the company had recently halved its work force. “All these factors don’t say that maintenance was at fault, but they point very strongly to that,” Collinge said. Partial service may be restored Monday — with rolling blackouts in downtown neighborhoods — if one cable is fixed. But full service is not expected until March 9 or later, company spokesman Richard Gib bons said. The government has ordered an investigation. Residents and businesses are struggling in the meantime. In harborside office buildings— where generators are providing partial power — barefoot employ- “The beer is warm and the ice has melted.” Kate Office worker ees in short sleeves swelter as the sun blasts through windows that don’t open. Generators are too weak to power air conditioners or more than one elevator at a time. “We’re lucky. At least we’ve got jobs,” said Kate, a worker at Alan Smythe Special Events, in a har- borfront office building. “My friend who works at a bar in Queen Street just lost her job. The beer is warm and the ice has melted." About half the small businesses, bars and restaurants downtown are closed. Many of biggerlj nesses have removed computer disks and relocais i suburban branch officeson:r^ capital, Wellington. American Express sent nine IB employees to Wellingtoi week and plans to send more, central library, bibliophilesgn] Colled through the darkness or usedi elect] lights loaned to thembylibrai tetiorj to find books until frusta W- forced it to close Wednesday, itrejl I lamish I laldine, whoiivt®dev| the 14th floorofa buildingw power for elevators, said era simple shopping trip for mil irche: a nightmare. 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