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12 Tuesday, April 23, 2002 Arafat Continued from page 1 al-Shamaliya. A soldier and two Hamas militants were killed, the army said. One of the militants was identified as Taher Nasser, 28, a leader of the Hamas military wing in the Nablus area. Israel says he was wanted for direct responsibility in attacks on Israelis, including the Dec. 12 ambush of a bus that killed 10 Israelis. Less than a mile from Arafat’s compound, masked gunmen pulled three suspected Palestinian infonners for Israel out of their cars in a downtown square and shot them with auto matic rifles. One man later died. The gunmen said they were from A1 Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militia linked to Arafat’s Fatah movement. Israeli troops have left most Palestinian cities in the West Bank after an incursion lasting more than three weeks. In their wake, however, Palestinian Authority government ministries are in shambles, Palestinians said. Israeli troops ripped out computer hard drives, seized documents and trashed offices not related to Israel’s search for militants, Palestinians said. Israelis took the medical records of thousands of patients from the Health Ministry, the student database from a computer at the Education Ministry and the car registration list from the Transportation Ministry, Palestinians said. The troops also blew up a safe in the Education Ministry and took $8,000 from it. said Salah Soubani, director of information at the Education Ministry. “Our ministries were nearly completely destroyed,” said Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. “This was not done as a mistake in one or two places. This was done in every single ministry.” Raanan Gissin, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said the Education Ministry “is not necessarily where the terrorists will be found, but it was a major source of incitement.” “We had to gather this material for the pur pose of exposing the extent and the virulent nature of the incitement,” which encouraged sui cide bombers, Gissin said. The American envoy. State Department offi cial William Burns, met Arafat for about two hours at the Palestinian leader’s compound, where about 300 aides, security guards and for eign volunteers have been confined to several rooms by Israeli troops since March 29. As Burns met Arafat, an Israeli bulldozer destroyed several cars parked outside and began building a rampart, said Netta Golan, an Israeli- Canadian activist in the compound. Burns came out to see what was going on before resuming the meeting, she said. THE BATliJ Economic Continued from page 1 Indicators of positive effects include the number of students who J from the engineering and veterinan and receive high quality jobs or ranktir| graduate test scores. The study ranks Georgia Tech first in ^ impact but did not provide numerical rank 1 1 other universities on the list, includbj The study aimed to rank the top univeRt, other institutions could compare theirimpi enhance their efforts. Perry said. A&M ranks in the top 15 university 1 nation foi research with a budget exceedj million and the total impact of Texas A&M® and service in the Bryan-College Stan exceeding $2 billion for the first time. 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