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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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