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MSC OPAS Offer expires December 22, 1998 Not valid with any other discount Not valid for tickets already purchased Minimum purchase of two tickets per show is required • All performances in Rudder Auditorium The Battalion CLASSIFIEDS '"fox To place an ad, phone 845-0569 Page 12 • Friday, December 4, 1998 World Officials question Israeli soldier’s actions Response to Palestinian attack raises national debate over responsibility in the face of violence TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A single photograph — that of a young Israeli soldier cowering un der the blows of a Palestinian mob — ignited a fierce nationwide debate Thursday over whether Israel has lost its military nerve. The photo was splashed across the front pages of every newspaper in Israel. While the prime minister and others won dered out loud why the soldier never opened fire with his M-16 rifle Wednesday, other Israelis insisted the new recruit would not be alive to day if he had acted otherwise. “What has happened to us, for God’s sake? Are we a country with a strong defense force or have we turned into a country of wimps?” wrote Yaacov Erez, the editor-in-chief of the Maariv newspaper. Assaf Meyara, 19, was recovering Thursday from multiple injuries inflicted by a dozen Pales tinians who smashed the windows of the car he was sitting in, dragged him out and struck him repeatedly with chunks of concrete. The ambush prompted Prime Minister Ben jamin Netanyahu to freeze troop withdrawals from the West Bank and suspend implementing the latest U.S.-brokered Mideast peace accord. Netanyahu suggested Thursday that Meyara should have followed open-fire procedures and should have been more prepared. “If a soldier or civilian is caught in a life- threatening situation, it is his right and even his “ffa soldier or civilian is caught in a life- threatening situation, it is his right and even his obligation to save himself in accordance with the law.” - BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER obligation to save himself in accordance with the law,” he told reporters. Defenders of Meyara’s actions, including Pres ident Ezer Weizman, said it was a mistake to judge a young soldier newly assigned to the often violent West Bank. On radio talk shows, many Is raelis said Meyara escaped alive because he did not open fire and risk the chance of having his gun grabbed and turned against him. ‘Assaf was in (the West Bank) for all of three weeks, without a full briefing, without experi ence, he was alone without other soldiers and he acted like any officer, general or even the army’s chief-of-staff would have to save his life,” said Meyara’s mother, Lisa. In a military-minded country where a ma jority of its citizens are drafted for lengthy army service, many questions regarding standard training and procedures were raised as a result of Wednesday’s attack. Meyara’s rifle was not loaded, and some re ports suggested it was in the back seat of the car instead of in Meyara’s possession at the time — both serious violations of army regulations. Moments before the car Meyara was riding in was attacked, an Israeli army jeep drove through the same intersection on the outskirts of the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah. The jeep was pelted with chunks of rock by the same group of Palestinians and then drove off, rather than remain on the scene, clear the junc tion and help protect other Israeli cars. Belfast h back ojjjii peace am ,1L ST iversity > [es high- in high- isphere. IlELlFE Border killing breaches cease-fire in Kosovo BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — In the worst breach of the Koso vo cease-fire, Yugoslav border guards killed eight ethnic Alba nians on Thursday, adding new urgency to the efforts of the U.S. envoy who is trying to negotiate a permanent peace. Several other armed incidents were reported as envoy Christo pher Hill presented Serbian Presi dent Milan Milutinovic with a re vised plan for the future of the Serb province. Hill said some progress was be ing made, but warned that time was at a premium because of fears that fighting, which had been at a lull as winter approached, could resume by spring. “I feel a sense of urgency,” Hill said. “Spring should be the time for plowing and not for fighting.” The eight armed ethnic Albani ans were killed near the town of Prizren when nine of them fired on Yugoslav soldiers guarding the border with Albania, the pro-gov ernment Serbian Media Center said. Yugoslav troops were not in jured, the center said. "/ feel a sense of urgency. Spring should be a time for plowing and not for fighting” — Christopher Hill U.S. envoy to Kosovo Yugoslavia’s army command confirmed the deaths and said the Albanians were trying to cross the border into Kosovo illegally. Ethnic Albanian rebels, who have been fighting for Kosovo’s in dependence, have frequently used illegal border routes to arm them selves in neighboring Albania. The clash came a day after three ethnic Albanians were gunned down in their car in Koso vo’s capital Pristina. A woman pedestrian was injured. Serbian police said they found three auto matic weapons and two hand grenades in the car, which was raked by machine-gun fire. On Thursday, rebel spokesper son Adem Demaci blamed the killings on Serbia’s secret police, saying one of the victims was a leading member of the rebel Koso vo Liberation Army while the two others were civilians: a journalist of the main Albanian language newspaper Bujku and a universi ty student. The journalist, Afrim Malici, had complaine he was being fol lowed by Serbia’s secret service, his colleagues said. Before meeting with Miluti novic, Hill said the new draft re flects previous comments by rival Serb and ethnic Albanian officials on how to achieve a settlement for the ethnic Albanian-majority province in southern Serbia. Kosovo’s Albanian leadership wants independence from Ser bia but is willing to settle for full autonomy as a first step. Serbia and the Serb leaders of Yu goslavia are strongly opposed to any plan on Kosovo that would sidestep Serbia. Hill did not elaborate, but said the plan does not explicitly spec ify whether Kosovo will become the third Yugoslav republic or would remain a Serb province. Republic status for Kosovo would give it equal say with Serbia and Montenegro, the two republics that make up Yugoslavia. Hill planned to present the plan to ethnic Albanian officials Friday. BELFAST, Northern S (AP) — Northern IrelanJ Protestant and CatholiJ clashed Thursday, hours! parently agreeing oii;| steps toward making Apr! agreement a reality. Rival wings of Irisl opinion, the moderate mocratic and La bor Party and militant Sinn Fein, accused the British Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, of re treating from commitments made early Thursday in ne gotiations overseen f Prime Minister Tony BL The prime minister’s: son, Alastair Campbell, was “disappointed than had not been able tobu progress made last nighM a number of different tions had arisen." When Blair left earlyll Catholic politicians were confident they and die Unionists would annotmcei hours two key planks oh: Ireland’s new government post Executive administrai would work alongsideii government in seven poll ing committees. The Irish prime mini®, Ahern, had planned Belfast to demonstrate sups the package. 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