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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Wel
comed by thousands of people
cheering and dancing in the street,
President Clinton today praised this
West African nation for its role in
peacekeeping and said it shows that
people here “can solve a lot of their
own problems.”
President Abdou Diouf, who has
been Senegal’s leader since 1981,
greeted Clinton at the presidential
palace, set behind tall iron gates
overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It
was built at the dawn of the centu
ry as the residence for the governor
general of French West Africa. Sene
gal became an independent nation
in 1960.
Senegal was the Final stop on
Clinton’s six-nation tour of sub-Sa
haran Africa.
Riding to the palace this morn
ing, Clinton passed a long stretch of
beach where fishermen keep ba
nana-shaped boats. Thousands of
people cheered and applauded,
many in colorful gowns. The crowd
included dancers and a man on
stilts, as well as members of a polit
ical opposition group chanting
“sopi,” meaning “change.”
A military band and an honor
guard stood at attention when Clinton
was greeted by Diouf, a slender man
several inches taller than Clinton.
Clinton wants to establish a
new role for this former French
colony as American partner and
African peacekeeper.
Senegal was one of the first
African nations to embrace the
U.S.-backed African Crisis Re
sponse Initiative that aims to orga
nize an all-African peacekeeping
force with training by U.S. Army
Special Forces troops.
After today’s meeting with Diouf,
Clinton was headed to Thies Mili
tary Base to see training exercises
conducted as part of the African
Crisis Response Initiative. The base,
located in the town of Thies about
30 miles east of Dakar, is a former
French military facility now hous
ing Senegal’s military academy and
infantry school.
RAMALLAH, West
Bank (AP) — Palestinian
officials accused Israel on
Wednesday of killing a
man considered the chief
Hamas bombmaker, say
ing he was fatally shot be
fore his body was placed
in an explosives-rigged
car that was detonated by
remote control.
Israel categorically de
nied being involved, but Is
lamic militants vowed re
venge, raising the specter
of a new bombing cam
paign in Israel as the Jew
ish state prepared for the
Passover holiday and 50th
anniversary celebrations.
Israeli security forces
were placed on height
ened alert in response to
the new threats.
Hamas has carried out
more than a dozen sui
cide bombings in Israel
since 1994.
The murky story of
Mohiyedine Sharif’s
death began Sunday
night when a Fiat Uno
rigged with about 110
pounds of explosives
blew up in a garage in an
industrial zone of Ramal-
lah, an autonomous
Palestinian city in the
West Bank.
The blast reduced the
car to a blackened, twist
ed heap of metal and lev
eled the garage in which it
was hidden.
A body, partially blown
apart, was found next to
the wreckage. Sharif’s rel
atives said hospital offi
cials told them he was
naked when found.
Palestinian officials ini
tially said the body could
not be identified and sug
gested the man was a
Hamas activist killed
when a car bomb intend
ed for an attack in Israel
blew up prematurely.
On Wednesday, Pales
tinian police announced
the body was that
Sharif, a 32-year-old elec
trical engineer and mas
termind of several suicide
bombings since 1995.
Sharif has topped Is
rael’s most-wanted list
since taking the place of
Yehiyeh Ayyash, the chief
Hamas bombmaker who
was killed by an explo
sives-rigged cellular phone
in January 1996.
The death was widely
believed to be the work of
Israel.
A Palestinian patholo
gist who performed the
autopsy said Wednesday
that Sharif had been shot
twice in the chest and
once in the leg hours be
fore the explosion.
Palestinian police said
Sharif was already dead
when taken to the Ramal-
lah garage and placed
near the rigged car, which
was then blown up by re
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) —Wear
ing an ankle-length coat and a scarf
over her head, the head of UNICEF
appealed Wednesday to the hard-line
Taliban religious army to guarantee
die safety of U.N. staff in Afghanistan
and give men and women there equal
access to U.N. programs.
Carol Bellamy’s meeting with
the Taliban’s second-in-com
mand, President Mullah Mo
hammed Rabbani, marked the
first time the Islamic movement
has held direct talks with a woman
since it seized control of 85 per
cent of the country in 1996 and
imposed its strict interpretation of
Islamic law.
The Taliban’s harsh edicts have
made U.N. efforts to rebuild the
country increasingly difficult —
and dangerous.
Last week, the United Nations
pulled its 14 international staff
members out of southern
Afghanistan to protest repeated Tal
iban attacks on employees there.
On Saturday, the U.N. special en
voy on Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahi-
mi, warned that the United Nations
will “pack up and go home” unless
the Taliban lets the world body do
its job — and that means easing re
strictions on females.
Wherever the fundamentalist
Taliban army reigns, it forces girls
out of schools and women out of
jobs. Health care for women is lim
ited. All Muslim women — includ
ing foreigners — can go out in pub
lic only under the escort of a close
“I wanted to convey
the seriousness
with which the
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male relative.
The U.N. children’s agency es
pecially has been affected, as
many of its programs, such as
building schools, concern women
and children.
There was no immediate re
sponse to Bellamy’s appeal, but she
said the Taliban leadership was will
ing to talk and it remained to be
seen whether the two sides can Find
a middle ground.
“I wanted to convey the serious
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