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ei International NHi HE BATTAL^THE battalion 7A Friday, April 12, 2002 Israeli troops continue to occupy Palestinian towns m ied from ] level. s a balance ber« ; >ng with my stuj ig authority •" he said. “Am ) is motivated can mamic. IttytorJ JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, ts comfortablep® Vest Bank (AP) — Israel class by leaminsj lulled out of two dozen small owns and villages in the West lank on Thursday, but took iver other Palestinian areas, ending mixed signals ahead of truce mission by Secretary of Itate Colin Powell. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would not vithdraw troops until Palestinian nilitias have been crushed. In the Jenin refugee camp, icene of the deadliest fighting in [ Israel's two-week offensive. I encouraging mother’s names. e really caw. t his student! puts in time them. As are hey benefit. -Dr. Wendy Woo: i graduate ads® hree dozen armed men, appar- ntly the last holdouts, surren- lered to Israeli troops Thursday. The unpaved alleys of the amp, chewed up by heavy army ndy Wood, luza chicles, were deserted Thursday. adviser, said ties professor." wonderful," she* ' cares about his; puts in time s i result, they bend psychology m; reidenbach agree: I him last sue: 1 psych,” she bcus all our atii ir grades.” though he is hr on his dissertaii; ling classes. luzc iser for two camp ions, Aimes: nal and StudentsE set. Reporters touring the edge of the hantytown, home to 13,000 ’alestinians, saw one demolished building and another one blacked by fire. The only civilian visible was a woman sitting in a wheel chair in one of the streets. In other army operations, Israeli troops entered the West Bank towns of Dahariyah and Bir Zeit and the Ein Hilmeh refugee camp Thursday and carried out arrest sweeps. A convoy of 15 Israeli tanks briefly entered the West Bank town of Tulkarem, one of two West Bank towns Israeli troops had left earlier in the week. In Tulkarem, troops arrested a 24-year-old Palestinian woman who, according to Israeli radio reports, was suspected of plan ning a suicide attack. The army had no comment. At the same time, Israeli troops pulled out of about two dozen small towns and vil- Israeli occupation Israeli forces withdrew from about two dozen small towns and wanted us to It: villages Thursday entered others in their nearly two- week campaign to root out Palestinian militants. Jenin Iktaba^ Tulkairem Kufar Roman Atil IHar| i uaiag Bazariya Ramin ® Qabatya Taysir Tubas Kufar a! Abad \ Qalqiliya ,?L Tamoun Anabta Nablus Salfit Tel Aviv ISRAEL Belt-Rima West Bank Bir Zeit f Beituniya gj ® Ramallah Jerusalem L Dry . ni) Continued Israeli troop occupation frevious Israeli troop occupation 10 mi 10 km Beit Jatla^ ; ^ #® t At-^Khader Dura Dahariyah Bethlehem Dead Sea Yatta Samua SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI lages in what appeared to be a gesture ahead of Powell’s arrival later Thursday. Israel and the United States appeared at odds over two key issues — the speed of the Israeli pullback and the role of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who has been confined to a few rooms in his West Bank head quarters for the past two weeks. Sharon has branded Arafat a terrorist, and has suggested he will have no more dealings with him. However, Powell said Wednesday that Arafat “is the partner that Israel will have to deal with.” Powell was to meet Saturday with Arafat at the besieged com pound in the West Bank town of Ramallah, despite Sharon’s remarks that he would consider such a meeting a “tragic mistake.” The secretary of state has Boated the idea of sending American truce monitors to the region. Israel’s Cabinet secre tary, Gideon Saar, said Thursday that Israel had no problem with the proposal, but strongly objects to the deploy ment of an international force. Israeli troops and tanks rolled into West Bank towns on March 29 in a massive offen sive triggered by Palestinian suicide bombings that have ter rorized Israel. The fighting has slowed the pace of such attacks, but not halted them. On Wednesday, a suicide bomber from the Islamic mili tant group Hamas blew himself up on a bus near the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, killing himself and eight pas sengers. Hamas identified the bomber as a 22-year-old resi dent of the Jenin refugee camp. On Thursday, a Palestinian man was killed when explosives he was carrying went off prema turely, near a taxi stand in the West Bank town of Hebron. Several bystanders were injured. In a tour of the army com mand post overlooking the Jenin refugee camp Wednesday, a defiant Sharon told cheering troops Wednesday that he wouldn’t end the offensive until what he described as the Palestinian terror infrastructure was dismantled. Law makes Yugoslav arrest easier i i BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — The Jugoslav Parliament passed a law Thursday that removes legal obstacles for the arrest and extra ction of top associates of former President Slobodan Milosevic and other war crimes sus pects to the U.N. tribunal. Hours later, one of the suspects, former Serbian Werior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, shot himself inthe head in front of the downtown federal parlia ment building. Stojiljkovic, who headed the police during Milosevic’s reign, was undergoing medical Ireatnient in a hospital, hospital officials said. Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said Passage of the law should satisfy the tribunal’s demands for extradition of indicted suspects and °Pen the way for the renewal of U.S. financial ajd, which is on hold until Secretary of State Colin Powell certifies that Yugoslavia is cooper ating with the Netherlands-based court. The State Department said Thursday that owell had not yet made a decision on that issue, ^spokesperson for the U.N. court criticized the narrow scope of the law, which applies only to suspects who have already been indicted; he e, nphasized that that Yugoslavia’s cooperation should be “complete and unconditional.” “We are more interested in concrete actions, and that means the apprehension and transfer of indi viduals who have been at large for unacceptable periods of time,” tribunal spokesperson Jim Landale said in The Hague. “We will wait and see.” The extradition law — which applies to about 20 suspects hiding in Yugoslavia — was approved by an 80-39 vote in the 138-seat lower parliament chamber, with the other deputies absent. The 40- seat upper house approved the law Wednesday and it will take effect upon publication in the offi cial gazette, expected within days. Before the vote, Yugoslav Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic, who is in charge of police, predicted quick action. “It can be expected that all the suspects will be handed over to The Hague tribunal by May 1,” Zivkovic said. To satisfy a demand by lawmakers from Montenegro, the smaller of Yugoslavia’s two republics, who are former allies of Milosevic, the law applies only to suspects already indict ed by the U.N. tribunal. Any indicted later would be tried by Yugoslav courts, it says. Quizno's SUBS IN NORTHGATE I IO COLLEGE MAIN 846-7000 Mon - Sat 10:30am-10:00pm Sun I I am-9pm ir GRAND OPENINGS Accepting Aggie Bucks! Come in for the Grand Opening Special Thursday 4/1 I thru Sunday 4/14 Buy Any Regular or Large Sub and Receive a FREE 22oz. Drink & Chips Good only at 3103 Freedom Blvd., across from Bryan Wal-Mart y or I IO College Main. No coupon needed. 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