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ending mixed signals ahead of
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hantytown, home to 13,000
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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
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army had no comment.
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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
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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.
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