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Texas A&M University Alpha Chi Omega House 1505 Olympic Way College Station, TX 77840 693-1439 Monday, February 25, 2002 INTERNATIO the batta. i Israel withdraws from Arafat hotr Palestinian leader still restricted to Ramallah JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel decided Sunday to draw tanks back from Yasser Arafat’s compound but continue restricting him to the West Bank city of Ramallah — a halfway measure that led angry Palestinians to cancel planned cease-fire talks with Israeli security officials. While the Palestinians had hoped that last week’s arrests of three top suspects in the October killing of Israeli Cabinet minis ter Rehavam Zeevi might end Arafat’s almost three-month-long confinement, Israel on Sunday demanded again that they be handed over and that other suspects be arrested as well. But an Israeli official, speaking on con dition of anonymity, suggested Sunday’s was only a preliminary decision, and also that Israel expected the security meeting to be delayed by only one day and held Monday. The Defense Ministry, mean while, said the army would exercise restraint in hopes of enabling a truce. Arafat has been restricted to Ramallah since early December, shortly after a wave of suicide bombings in Israel, and tanks moved steadily closer to his compound, eventually surrounding it. Israel’s Security Cabinet, made up of senior ministers, said in a statement Sunday that such pressure caused last week's arrest in the West Bank city of Nablus of the three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which claimed responsibility for Zeevi’s killing in October. Raanan Gissin, spokesperson of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Israeli tanks would soon be pulled back from Arafat’s compound to unspecified new locations. But Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat maintained that this “changes noth ing” because Arafat had been able to get around Ramallah already; in recent days he prayed at a mosque about a mile away and A Palestinian police officer inspects part of Pal the West Bank town of Ramallah after an Israe attended the opening of a play. “This is a very terrible decisi Erekat. “Why is it that every time proceed with the peace process ... such decisions? We expected to he sion that will revive hope ... Enoi to humiliate us!” Dovish Israelis noted that Aral amine had not succeeded in low violence that has raged since S 2000. killing 992 people on the P side and 283 on the Israeli side. In announcing the decision Sharon appeared to leave options said “the closure around Arafat's ters in Ramallah will be lifted’ “Arafat’s departure from Ram; decision that would te a forum according «o the; me minister. Araf it hopes to attend an Arab, summit at the end of March in Beiia- Israeli officials are concerned A t h at s ummit into a show return with redoubled support for month-old uprising. There is also some appre Sharon's circles that the sum momentum to emerging Sail ler Middle East peace in essentially complete Israeli] West Bank and Gaza —an id . fiercely opposed but Israeli v to embrace. has lik< | ech in Lubt Colombian presidential candidate abducted by leftist guerrillas SAN VICENTE DE CAGUAN, Colombia (AP) — A presidential candidate who is a severe critic of Colombia's leftist guer rillas was abducted by the rebels as she headed into a zone they once controlled, her cam paign spokesperson said Sunday. BETANCOURT Ingrid Betancouil disappeared after setting out for San Vicente del Caguan, a former rebel stronghold that was seized by government troops Saturday in an offensive to retake a large swathe of rebel-controlled territory. Betancourt and her campaign manager Clara Rojas were kidnapped Saturday by rebels with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, spokesperson Diana Rodriguez told The Associated Press. Rodriguez said the rebels released two journalists — one French, the other Colombian — and a campaign coordinator who had been accompanying Betancourt and Rojas. The three returned safely to an army base in the city of Florencia, where Betancourt began her trip, Rodriguez said. Colombia’s government said it had warned Betancourt, a former Senator, not to make the trip to San Vicente because it was too dangerous. Interior Minister Armando Estrada called on the rebels to release Betancourt. “We ask those who are holding her to respect her life and release her quickly so she can resume her advocacy work,” he said. Estrada said the government was search ing for her and was doing what ii could to establish security in the war zone. Betancourt was one of a number of can didates in the elections set for next month who had planned to enter the former rebel- run territory to show their support as the government moves to retake the area. President Andres Pastrana had ceded the zone, an area tw'ice the size of New Jersey in southern Colombia, to the FARC three years ago in hopes of brokering an end to the country’s 38-year war. But last week he declared the peace process collapsed, citing They were waiting for orders about what to do with Ingrid. Estrada said. Betancourt and her group wett in a volatile area just outside thez highway that gi>es through a sirin. lets, some dominated by rebels,} right-\A ing paramilitaries. Adair Lamprea, the campaign tor later freed, told The Associt that the candidate and her group', rebel roadblock' constructed of r» packed with explosives and other, soon arrived in several trucks. “They were waiting for orde what to do with Ingrid,” Lamprea. "There was a Red Cross truck (alt block) when we arrived, but they t to go back.” Eventually, the rebels orderedBi exas Te< 20 win se. 1$96 after AfcM men': 74-53, on ! Hlhe Aggii 11) scored the first ha early to the 6, 9-5). Te lead at half Bech wa Clavis' 18 wnich can Kasib Pc points. The four player figures. ^Junior gt led the Agg and junio Bean chipp | The win t gave therr —Adair Lamprea campaign coordinator repeated FARC attacks on military and civil ian targets, and on Friday thousands of troops began moving into the area. The troops moved into San Vicente, the main town in the region of 100,000 people, before dawn on Saturday. Estrada urged other candidates not to visit the area for the moment, and two can didates postponed planned trips. “It is good that politicians are doing what they can to draw support for their campaigns and their causes ... but it was not necessary to make that trip in those conditions,” into one truck and Rojas into °V er the A Lamprea said. “When (Betancourt time since that truck, she appeared strong,jusi season anc always is. but nervous,” he said. straight wii “They freed the rest of usatuii Tech wor told us that they had the person the; between th and that we weren’t part of thepr in College 5 Lamprea continued. “They droppo . somewhere and we walked and walb r ~~ a truck came by and picked us up. there was bombing, and we co strongly. 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