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President George W. Bush, right, and Vice President Dick Cheney, left, meet with
■cretary of State Colin Powell in the Oval Office of the White House on April 18.
owell urges Israel to
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Infinement of Yasser Arafat so the Palestinian
lender would be in a better position to act to bring
^>wn violence and start on peacemaking.
Powell also said he was pleased that
hind’s withdrawal of forces from the West
Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin and sections
of Ramallah “seems to be well under way” but
would like to see it continue “until there is no
■ore question about it.”
I As things stand now, he said, Israeli troops
arc “poised” to return to their previous posi-
■ons. “We are moving in a good direction right
pow but it is not yet over” the secretary said.
Israel has confined Arafat to his Ramallah
r cadquarters since December, and a military
|ffensive that began March 29 has forced him
into just a few rooms of his compound offices.
. Powell suggested those restrictions on Arafat’s
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guidance and instructions to his subordinates.
“I think sooner or later, he has to be given
access to the means of control, to the means of
communicating with others and so I think we’ll
have to work through that problem,” Powell said
on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“He has to make a strategic choice now,”
Powell said. “He has to move away from a path
of violence or terrorism onto a new path.” If he
does so, Powell said, “There is much the United
States can do for him and the peace process.”
Israel has said it will maintain its siege at
Arafat’s compound until he turns over suspects
in the October killing of Rehavam Zeevi, Israel’s
tourism minister. The suspects are believed to be
in the compound.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said
Arafat can stop violence despite his confine
ment. He has authority “more than ever before,
because his voice today is more powerful,” Peres
said on NBC.
Tracks cleared at scene of Amtrak crash
CRESCENT CITY, Fla.
lAP) — The track where an
hntrak Auto Train derailed in
a deadly mess of mangled cars
Ind rails was cleared Sunday,
kilowing the first trains to pass
|hrough this northern Florida
town since the accident.
The original tracks were
.tom out by Thursday’s derail-
nent, which killed four people
and injured more than 150.
The first coal train that moved
through Sunday morning was
on temporary rails, said Gary
Sease, spokesperson for CSX,
the freight railroad that owns
the track.
The 39-foot-long sections
of temporary track can hold
slow-moving trains at 10
mph. The company plans to
make improvements this
week to allow the temporary
tracks to withstand faster
trains. He said an average of
28 trains a day are normally
scheduled there.
As the coal train passed,
workers continued clearing
downed trees and debris
from the area with bulldoz
ers and cranes.
The Auto Train had been
headed for Washington with
418 passengers and 34 crew
members, as well as 200 auto
mobiles stacked in 23 cars,
when it derailed Thursday.
Monday, April 22, 2002
DeLay was
expelled
from Baylor,
aide confirms
HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep.
Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, has
apologized for the “misunderstand
ings” he caused by advising a
group of Christian conservatives
not to send their children to Baylor
or Texas A&M.
But what the House majority
whip did not say, the Houston
Chronicle reported in its Friday edi
tions, is that he was kicked out of
Baylor in 1967.
When asked about the matter,
DeLay’s spokesperson Jonathan
Grella said Thursday the congress
man was booted out of the private
Baptist school in Waco for his
“extracurricular activities” and “too
vigorous a social life.”
Grella said DeLay’s comments
about Baylor had nothing to do with
the fact he was kicked out of the
school. The spokesperson declined
to detail what DeLay did other than
to say it involved “lots of pranks.”
“He (DeLay) accepted the con
sequences of his actions and was
glad they did it (kicked him out),”
Grella said. “These experiences did
him a favor and were helpful in
helping him mature.”
Baylor spokesperson Larry
Brumley confirmed DeLay attended
the university from 1965 to 1967,
but said he could not divulge further
details because of confidentiality
laws. According to the Washington
Post, DeLay’s use of alcohol con
tributed to his antics at Baylor. He
was a pre-med student at Baylor,
and in 1970 he earned a degree in
biology from the University of
Houston, n
According to a 1995 article in
the New Republic, DeLay was
kicked out of Baylor for “dancing
and painting buildings green at rival
Texas A&M.” At the time, Baylor
did not allow dancing on campus.
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