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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli
and Palestinian leaders traded recrimina
tions Sunday, each accusing the other of
stoking the Mideast conflict. A
Palestinian gunman was killed and three
Israelis were wounded in scattered vio
lence.
The two leaders exchanged angry
charges despite recent contacts between
the two sides and talk of a possible and
limited Israeli troop withdrawal from the
Gaza Strip and then the West Bank.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he
did not believe Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat’s government would take action
to prevent Palestinian attacks against
| Israel.
‘Arafat is the head of terrorism and
[no one is counting on him,” Sharon told
a Cabinet meeting, according to Cabinet
[Secretary Gideon Saar.
Arafat said he did not think Sharon’s
government was serious about peace
negotiations.
“This government is looking only for
more escalation for its military plans.
They are not looking to achieve peace,”
Arafat said at his mostly destroyed com
pound in the West Bank city of
Ramallah.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops
tracked down and shot and killed a
Palestinian militant after he opened fire
on Israelis working on a fence at a Jewish
settlement of Dugit in the northern Gaza
Strip, wounding one of them, the army
said.
The Palestinian gunman hit the Israeli
worker with at least five bullets in his
arms and legs, according to the Barzilai
Hospital in the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
Israeli troops chased the gunman to a
house in the nearby Palestinian area of
Beit Lahiya and killed him in a gun bat
tle, the army said. Troops then blew up
the house.
The militant Islamic group Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack on
This government
is looking only for
more escalation
for its military
plans. ”
ARAFAT
the Israeli workers and identified the
gunman as Basil Naji, 22.
In the northern West Bank town of
Jenin, Palestinian gunfire wounded two
Israeli soldiers, the army said.
Meanwhile, Pope John Paul II deliv
ered one of his most forceful denuncia
tions of Middle East violence, lamenting
that Palestinians were subjected to “col
lective punishment” and Israelis were
gripped by fear.
“When will one learn that coexis
tence between the Israeli and Palestinian
people cannot result from arms? Neither
attacks, nor walls of separation, nor retal
iation will ever lead to a just solution of
the conflict under way,” John Paul said
Sunday at his summer palace in Castel
Gandolfo, a hill town near Rome.
The Israel-Palestinian talks, since
stalled, had focused on Israeli forces
leaving Palestinian areas in the Gaza
Strip. If calm prevailed, Israel then
would examine withdrawing from parts
of the West Bank, where troops are in
most Palestinian cities and towns.
Sharon called the Palestinian propos
als for an Israeli withdrawal “a trick
designed to coincide with the talks
between Palestinian officials and U.S.
leaders.”
A Palestinian delegation was in
Washington last week for discussions
with senior Bush administration officials
on stabilizing the region and reforming
the Palestinian security forces.
Arafat said he was encouraged by the
Washington discussions, which included
the highest-level meetings between U.S.
and Palestinian officials in recent
months.
“There were very positive talks and
today (Sunday) they will return and give
a full explanation,” Arafat said of the
Palestinian team.
The Palestinian Authority’s interior
minister, Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, met CIA
director George Tenet outside
Washington on Saturday and said he was
revamping what remains of a Palestinian
security force devastated by the Israelis.
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) —
Torrents of muddy water from
monsoon rains swept away
several villages in remote
northern India Sunday, killing
at least 43 people, government
officials said.
Rescue efforts that included
helicopter flights were ham
pered by pouring rain and lack
of roads in Uttaranchal state,
nearly 185 miles northeast of
the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Army and paramilitary sol
diers called in to help were not
expected to reach the area until
early Monday, said R.S. Tolia,
Uttaranchal’s chief secretary.
The death toll mounted
Sunday as rescuers battled
heavy rain to clear debris and
pull bodies from piles of mud,
rocks and uprooted trees.
Virendra Singh, an official
from Tehri-Garhwal district in
Uttaranchal, said rescuers
recovered 43 bodies from the
villages of Marwadi,
Medugoan, Kotgaon and
Angoda.
The district headquarters had
not received infonnation about
some remote villages that lack
telephones or accessible roads.
A cloudburst that hit nearby
Uttarkashi district created a tor
rent of muddy water that swept
away at least six villages while
flowing down the mountains,
said D.K. Gupta, a top state
official. There were no casual
ties but many cattle were lost,
he said.
India’s monsoon season
begins in June and ends in late
September. Floods this year
have hit Bihar state in the east
and several provinces in the
remote northeast, killing at
least 250 people.
Meanwhile, India’s worst
drought in 14 years continues
affecting as many as 12 states in
the north, central and northwest
regions, where most of the
nation’s 1 billion people live.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Workers recover last two
bodies among 10 killed in
crash of U.S. Air Force plane
CAGUAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A search team
cut into the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force plane
Sunday and found the bodies of two service
men, the last of 10 who died when their plane
slammed into a mountainside.
The searchers found the bodies after opening
a battered section of the cockpit using a spe
cialized saw and other equipment, officials said.
"We have finished one of the most important
missions, which is the recovery of bodies," said
Lt. Col. Adolfo Menendez, commander of a
National Guard unit at the crash site. "Now
begins the investigation."
Separated twins improve at
Los Angeles hospital
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guatemalan twins born
joined at the head and separated in a lengthy oper
ation were more alert Sunday, and doctors reduced
their sedation medication, hospital officials said.
Though Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez and sis
ter Maria Teresa were in critical condition, their
vital signs remained stable.
"Both are tolerating the intravenous nutrition
fairly well," said UCLA Medical Center spokes
woman Roxanne Moster.
Meanwhile, medication used to sedate the
two girls has been reduced.
"Maria de Jesus is much more alert and even
looking around," Moster said.
Russian floods kill 55 so far
MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from flooding
that swept through holiday resorts and scenic
villages in Russia's Black Sea Coast rose to 55 on
Sunday, according to the Krasnodar region's
Emergency Situations Ministry.
Most of those killed were local residents and
died of drowning, emergency officials said on
Russian television.
The flooding left picturesque beaches in the
south of Russia littered with debris, fallen trees
and the ruined hulks of swept-away cars.
Homes and shops were washed away, and
roads and bridges destroyed by the current.
Both residents and tourists, who descend on
the region during their summer vacations, were
left stranded.
On Sunday, the sun shone brightly, providing
relief to crews dispatched to help in the cleanup
efforts.
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