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Janu Above the ground [Inte DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — If Israel returns the Golan Heights as Syria de mands, it would not be the same place that survives so vividly in the minds of Syrians who fled their homes in the 1967 war. Israel’s footprints will linger in the resorts it has built, the orchards it has planted and the archaeological sites it has excavated. Syria’s government has not revealed its plans for the plateau, but the people have plenty of ideas: rebuild villages, establish factories, get agriculture moving, develop a tourist industiy. The Golan is at the heart of the dispute between the two nations, which resumed talks in December after a 3 1/2-year freeze. Israel seized the Golan in 1967 and any peace deal is expected to return all or most of it to Syria. “Syria’s economy will benefit a great deal from the return of the Golan because the land is famous for its crops and water, its geography and nature,” said Madhat Saleh el-Saleh, a ruling Baath party lawmaker who is the symbolic represen tative for Syrian villagers remaining in Is raeli-occupied land. Syria’s economy, slowly opening to the world, remains agriculturally based. A shepherd from southern Syr ia, Saleh Suleiman Mustafa, imagines jobs for Syrians growing apples, figs and grapes in the Golan’s fertile soil. Nayim Jabri, a fine arts professor at Damascus University, hopes to see wa ter and farm projects that will benefit the whole region. El-Saleh envisions juice factories, vineyards and a winery on the plateau. Hotels and restaurants will be needed for tourists who can ski Mount Hermon then cross the plateau to swim in the warm waters at el-Himma, he adds. Israel has built just such projects, but el-Saleh does not expect it to leave behind anything of use. In 1982, Israel tore down settlements in northern Sinai before re turning the territory to Egypt. The Syrian government also has made clear it expects Israeli settlements to be dismantled and their 17,000 resi dents to leave. Development projects will take time, el-Saleh acknowledges. How long will depend largely on how much international aid and compensation Syria receives following any peace deal with Israel, he says. The Golan, more than 700 square miles of volcanic plain, is filled with ap ple orchards, wildflowers and waterfalls. It has dramatic — and militarily strategic — views of northern Israel and Syria. Syria has not indicated how much money it intends to seek to resettle the Golan. It claims 244 villages “disap peared” after more than 100,000 peo ple fled the area in 1967. Sunday, it said more than 400,000 people — original residents and their de scendants — consider the Golan home. Ahmed Mustafa Diab, at 31 too young to know the plateau firsthand, still calls the Golan village of ai-Mah- jar near the Sea of Galilee home. If a peace deal makes it possible, he says he will head straight for it. Diab expects the Syrian government and foreign donors will help his family re build. If not, he says, neighbors will help each other. ntoxicatK self bring crowded: rthgate, a ice officer onship wi ure in the rt, one usi rk altered st or with ala yer Ellis I ociates it > Rubin is l npbell of bn felony r ratening n iber, as line chat r tirlish what b Bod on my Hdcnl 1 rin set ool the nc t he was p ■s that two thL school in ■ Walton d . and she fufrils shut di for u inter bra Clmpbell rec Hpid prank. I Ellis Rub Bealls “Inte pit!, stupid pr Bfcnse that net that he v Bhc time In not he held r« ■ Creative i Bsly in Rubi in 1977, whe Bn" in defer said that 15-\ SALUt TURNER 1 Lori Briggs, head rider, directs an Arabian Lipizzaner stallion as the horse preforms a Courbette. The Courbette is where the horse balances on the hind legs and then jumps, k«: Wiu Tvd by th Ing the hind legs together and the forelegs off the ground. Only stallions with the greatest causing him t strength, talent and athletic ability are chosen for training in these ancient maneuvers. Japan denies massacre, protest era Zamora was i I In 1991, t with prostitut she was suite mama, I Ic sa ther apy for h< potent. She e were held OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Emotional prot throughout Asia on Sunday against a conference calling a wartime massacre of Chinese civ ilians b\ Japanese troops “The Biggest Lie of the 20th Century.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry had urged Japan earlier in the week to stop the conference, and ministry spokesperson /liu Bangzao read a statement Sunday on national telev ision news sav - ing the event had “harmed the feelings of the Chinese people and interfered w ith the nor mal development of China-Japan relations.” But inside the conference, some 300 people packed an auditorium to hear former soldiers and a historian deny the so-called Rape of Nanking, where some historians said the Japanese military killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians. Another 200 who could not get into the controversial conference, titled “The Verification of the Rape ofNanking: The Bi like man l.ip.m. Suirdav Japanese soldier "There was Higashinakano versity said. Japan’s Fon it th I sav. that’ “There was no massacre of civil ians Nanjing/' — Shudo Higashinakano Chin plaus rmer the ( . hen th Professor of history at Tokyo's Asia University whe ivilu Biggest Lie of the 20th Century,” stood outside. Roughly 100 protesters, mostly Chinese and Japanese, as sembled nearby. Some of them waved banners with slogans such as, “Nanking is an undeniable fact.” Supporters of the speakers heckled protesters, but there was no violence. Some historians said Japanese imperial soldiers killed as many as 300,000 people during Tokyo’s 1937-38 occupation of the Chinese city ofNanking, now called Nanjing. A postwar tribunal in Tokyo said more than 140,000 were killed. in i\an|i tears, gath meeting, st av I’m Ivinu. I say I I :o and Takehr soldiers star; >ccupation, rid other sold- lescribing systematic' 1 i. Neither man wasU an j ing. ng. surv ivors, some or rred to denounce tht rte television reported est represent the massi' i mv body, wounds on' "They timsbecause I still have wound wounds on my legs. Can you deny that?” said L iu Xiuy The news broadcast show ed people holding lit white walking past a stone memorial marked : “VICTIMS 30 It also showed a museum display of partially uit skeletons of massacre victims. Several dozen veterans and experts also gathered in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang toexpre anger over the conference, the state-run Xinhua Agency reported. Bu Rockin’ with the Stones! American Wholesale Ma 693-2822 [ast year, an innovative band of percussionists wowed audiences across the world when they opened for the Rolling Stones! They are The Drummers of West Africa. And thanks to MSC Town Hall, their next stop is Rudder Auditorium. 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