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JERUSALEM (AP) — Stung by the deaths of
three Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon, Prime Min
ister Ehud Barak said there would be no new peace
talks with Syria until the Damascus government
reins in the Islamic militant Hezbollah.
“Israel will not be able to negotiate peace as long
as the Syrians do not restrain Hezbollah from act
ing against the Israeli army,” said a Defense Min
istry statement issued hours after the bloody attack,
which also wounded four Israeli soldiers, one criti
cally. One of the dead was an Israeli major.
Before and after Hezbollah’s strike in Israel’s
self-declared security zone in south Lebanon, Israeli
warplanes staged nine air raids against suspected
guerrilla positions, the army said. The extent of ca
sualties from the airstrikes was not immediately
known.
The violence, the worst in southern Lebanon in
six months, comes as the United States has been
seeking to bring Israel and Syria back to the bar
gaining table. Negotiations resumed in December
after a four-year hiatus, but broke down in a matter
of weeks.
Syria said it pulled out of the talks due to Israel’s
refusal to commit in advance to a total withdrawal
from the disputed Golan Heights, and over what kind
of a demilitarized area would exist there.
Following Monday’s attack — which came only
a day after Hezbollah assassinated the man consid
ered No. 2 in Israel’s allied militia, the South
"We condemn the vio
lence and urge re
straint on all parties
that have influence in
the region”
told lawmakers from his One Israel faction.
With 30,000 troops in Lebanon. Syria is its
neighbor’s main power broker. Israel has longed
maintained that Syria has tacitly approved and in
some cases, encouraged - the flow of arms to
Hezbollah.
In the Defense Ministrs statement, Barak used
language that in the past has foreshadowed a major
Israeli counterattack. "We have known in the past,
and we still know, {how } to strike at the place and
time of our choosing,’’’he said.
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National Security Council spokesman
Lebanon Army — Barak used his bluntest language
yet to implicate Syria in Hezbollah’s actions.
“It is ... the Syrians, not just Hezbollah, w ho are
behind supply lines and freedom of movement” for
the guerrillas, Barak, a former military chief of stair.
Barak described the recent viole
nee, including As sat
the death of another Israeli soldier
last week, as a 1 SI
“grave intensification ... that Israel
would not al-
low to continue.”
ing it
In Washington, U.S. officials s;
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tid they didn t
read Barak’s statement as setting pn
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continuing talks, but rather as on a
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Hezbollah’s attacks were a threat tc
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ations.
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"We condemn the violence and
urge restraint .u . m
on all parties that have influence t
n the region.” south
David Leavy, spokesman for the Ns
itional Sccun- v,j
ty Council, said.
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good economic times. Unemployment is
at its lowest level in 30 years — 4.1 per
cent — consumer confidence is at record
highs and Wall Street has just wrapped
up an unprecedented five straight years
of returns of 20 percent or more in the
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marking the third straight year with
growth at four percent or more.
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ply of workers, would translate into
rapidly rising wages, leading to higher
inflation. But not this time. Last year, the
so-called core rate of inflation, which
takes out volatile energy and food prod
ucts, was up just 1.9 percent, the best per
formance in 34 years.
President Clinton takes every oppor
tunity to cite the soundness of the Clin-
ton-Gore deficit reduction program as a
key building block for the good econo
my, hoping voters will reward Democ
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