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WORLD
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THE BATTALION
Powell asks Israel to lift constraint
Secretary of state, Yassar Arafat seek economic relief for Palestini
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POWELL
STUDENT TRAVEL
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Endorsing a
Palestinian demand, Secretary of State Colin Pow
ell urged Israel Sunday to lift an economic “siege”
of the West Bank and Gaza as
soon as possible.
The constraints, which in
clude a ban on Palestinian work
ers going to their jobs in Israel
and the withholding of tax rev
enues, do nothing to improve
the security situation, Powell
said after a two-hour meeting
with Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat at his headquarters.
“If people are not able to get to their jobs, they
become more frustrated,” Powell said later Sun
day as he flew to Kuwait from Jordan. “Frustra
tion leads to anger and then anger to violence.”
Israel, in an effort to stem attacks on its soldiers
and civilians, is using economic pressure as well as
firepower. Peace talks have been shelved, and Pow
ell said it will be a long time before they resume.
“We discussed how it is necessary for all sides
to move away from violence and incitement and
how it is necessary to lift the siege as soon .as pos
sible so that economic activity can begin again in
the region,” Powell said of his meeting with Arafat.
Before seeing Arafat, Powell met Israel prime
minister-electAriel Sharon in Jerusalem but evi
dently was unable to persuade Israel’s incoming
prime minister to ease that pressure. Still, Powell
said the Bush administration’s commitment to Is
raeli security was “rock-hard.”
Powell said he was disturbed by an outline of
Israel’s security problems that he received Satur
day night from Israel’s military chief, Lt. Gen.
Shaul Mofaz.
“This is the time to bring calm to the region,”
Powell said at a news conference with Sharon. "It
is a very dangerous situation.”
Before landing in Kuwait, where he participat
ed in a l()th anniversary celebration of Kuwait’s
liberation from Iraq, Powell said Israelis and Pales
tinians are in touch with each other on security is
sues. “Whether that will bear fruit, 1 don't know.”
On peacemaking, he described Sharon and
Arafat as leaders looking down a long hallway,
with a settlement at the end. “They have the keys.”
Powell said.
But, he said, “it’s going to take some time be
fore they get back to negotiations.”
In Ramallah, Powell blamed both sides for the
violence that has plagued the region for five
months, and promised that President Bush would
play a leadership role in peacemaking once the
outbreak subsides.
Arafat declared, “Peace is in the interest of the
Palestinians, the Israelis, the Arabs and the interna
tional community at large” and that the Palestinians
had made "the strategic choice” to pursue to it.
Arafat insisted peacemaking must begin where
it broke off last month. Israel’s outgoing prime
minister, Ehud Barak, had offered the Palestinians
most of the West Bank and control over parts of
east Jerusalem.
Arafat rejected the offer and Barak called it
dead after his landslide loss to Sharonei:
month. Arafat said “no government can 1 :,
erase the moves of previous governors."
But Sharon ruled out any negotiation'
terror and violence,” although he saidkj
tained “pipelines” to the Palestinian Aifr
send messages.
In continued West Bank violences.
Palestinian motorist was shot dead by Israe: ^Sommi r Bi s
and two Israeli motorists were shot and^ m^^ atta ^ ton
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day trek, went from the West BanktoM the Corps of Ca
he discussed Middle East peace and U.N.< °ne she will tini
against Iraqi sanctions with King Abdul Barron, a ju
Jordanian leaders have “a clear undei began as a tresh
Iraq's program of weapons of mass destni er women cade
to be dealt with," Powell said en route to leave. For her, tl
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said the king urged ''fairness in dealingJj^H 0| w leti"
and that “demands for implementingL.nBe 01 ' mos l of t
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vited the king to Washington in April.
Powell was behind the wheel ashediti
the king to the airport Abdullah, acaree:
who Hies anything from jet fighters to attal
copters, then piloted a helicopter and^
Powell's plane to Kuwait.
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WE’VE BEEN THERE.
News in Brief
President Mubarak
seeks solutions to
poverty problem
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak declared
war on poverty Sunday as he and
leaders of seven other developing
countries met to discuss ways to
strengthen their economies.
“Poverty needs a new interna
tional agenda to overcome it,"
Mubarak said, opening a one-day
summit of a predominantly Islam
ic bloc of countries known as the
D-8, or developing eight nations of
Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia,
Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan
and Turkey.
“Although (poverty) is one of the
oldest human phenomena, the de
velopments of the past century, es
pecially those of the last decades,
have brought to it such levels that
are hardly acceptable politically,
economically and even morally,”
Mubarak said.
The Egyptian leader offered no
new proposals, saying the reme
dies have been discussed again
and again at international meet
ings. He cited last year’s U.N. Mil
lennium Summit, where world lead
ers pledged to reduce poverty by
50 percent by the year 2015.
Death toll in Yemen
rises to 23 people
SAN‘A, Yemen (AP) — Violence
that broke out after municipal
elections in Yemen this week
claimed another five lives Satur
day, bringing the death toll to 23,
security officials said. •
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vote-counting disputes r
southern city of Taiz, andfa
diers were injured in cross!
tween supporters of the
General People’s Congres
the opposition Islah park
cials said.
At least 23 people have
reported killed since Tuesdas
a municipal vote and referei
on constitutional reform.
But Alawi al-Attaf, head
Supreme Elections Comu
said there have been or
deaths.
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