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NATION THE BATTALION 7B Tuesday, September 3, 2002 ■Vat he BATTa Israel will not take Arafat ilurback if he leaves West Bank size and repair continues bea; pumping blood •ding alone, not enough," T ne that he p “gular drugs ^ re, but at ver doses the du Id not nornu 'die if it also ti d around the hre heart recosq > much becat< as been i.dcn ^ » prepare the b .'illation dutiesi esi another a-j ran muscle urw strateg spiant ■third! Hem ssm ■ JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel will not allow Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to return to the West Bank if he leaves the area, Pr me Minister Ariel Sharon’s spokesman said Monday. I The Palestinians have approached Israeli authorities about the possibility of Arafat attending international conferences, Raanan Gtssin said. ■ ‘‘He’s free to leave, but he’s not free to come back,” Gissin said the Palestinians were told. I "We have considered Arafat irrelevant foi some time, and many in the world are flS iSizing that, too,” Gissin said. “If he were ni here, perhaps the Palestinians could choose a new way and a new leadership.” I Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat called Sharon’s stand “despicable” and accused him of sabotaging peace efforts. I Israel charges that Arafat is responsible for nearly two years of Mideast violence by eaticouraging militants to attack Israel and Hi ling to crack down on extremist groups. Rilestinians counter that Israel has neutral ized Arafat’s security forces in the West Hank, and charge that the Israeli occupation Hid army operations in Palestinian areas are behind the violence. I With few exceptions, Arafat has been qt'nfined to his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah all year by Israeli flirces, with tanks surrounding or entering Hs compound and controlling the area. I Also Monday, Israeli forces shot and ■ lied an aimed Palestinian who threw grenades at soldiers in the Gaza Strip, according to military sources, speaking on qondition of anonymity. I Soldiers withdrew from a main intersec- ( tion near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, restoring Palestinian traffic through Gaza, the military said. The military cut the road curing violence last week. In other developments, Israel’s defense minister ordered the army to quickly con clude its investigation into the deaths of Palestinian civilians in recent army raids, Israeli forces in Nablus cut one of the two main roads, and Palestinian educators com plained that Israeli restrictions are ruining the new school year. u If he were not here, perhaps the Palestinians could choose a new way and a new leadership — Rannan Gissin Spokesman for Ariel Sharon In three attacks from Thursday to Sunday, 12 Palestinians were killed, at least eight of them civilians, including several children. After apologizing on two separate occasions for the deaths; Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-EIiezer ordered an inquiry to be completed by Friday, an unusually tight deadline. Some analysts interpreted the quick inquest as a sign of differences between Ben-EIiezer and the new Israeli army chief. Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon. In a newspaper interview. Yaalon had called Palestinians a “cancer” and said that they must be totally defeated, while Ben-EIiezer has been work- pl. Richanj '• itn/ Rodnax: not given ) Ittllo sOUlb: than half the- l, r ,n. word for Act boon to hit i 59. w hich left ? missing, d that the W lc” and drscr nul bridgf! ect t dn in >dy RAAS. S»< .•dish man siK' i to hijack x ■■ iered Month uly w hile pn# irmal chargee eightened fe& r d of the ann: »t. 11 attack! uirt judge onfe hatty. 29. det charges of i plane and fc i weapon. W , of planning slane or airptf s have said it ;t with fotf' are look in? Chatty and tflj zith other line Labor members help support dockworkers ing for easing of tensions and a cease-fire. After taking control of seven of the eight main West Bank cities and towns in June in response for two suicide bombings in Jerusalem, Israel handed Bethlehem over to Palestinian security last month, part of a test that was to include Gaza. However, there has been no similar movement in Gaza, and each side blames the other. Israeli media late Monday quoted Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yehiyeh calling on his people to stop violent attacks against Israelis and move to nonvio lent resistance instead. On Friday, in an interview published by an Israeli newspaper, Yehiyeh. who is in charge of security servic es, called for an end to suicide bomb attacks. In Nablus, the largest West Bank city, Israeli soldiers kept a curfew in effect as they blocked one of the city’s two main roads, cutting a deep trench with a bulldoz er. The Israeli military had no immediate comment. In Rai, a village north of Nablus, resi dents say soldiers forced a Palestinian woman to board a jeep and demand that her brother surrender. When she called to him over a loudspeaker that the soldiers were going to blow up her house, he emerged and turned himself in. Then the Israelis removed the explosives and left the village with the Palestinian, they said. The Israeli military had no comment. The Palestinian Education Ministry said Monday that the widespread curfews are disrupting the new school year, which start ed Saturday. Thousands of students are unable to reach their schools because of the curfews, confining people to their homes, and Israeli roadblocks and travel restric tions, ministry officials said. NEWS IN BRIEF ^AF=IT chono* your life Iff FOR MORE INFORMATION. 979.823.1022 AG F MARATHON/HALF MARATHON TRAINING PROGRAM Ask anyone who has done it, there is nothing like finishing a marathon. 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Mayor James Hahn sent the president a letter Monday urging him to stay out of the conflict The tween 10,500 members of the International Longshore and AVarehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, hich represents shippers. “Federal intervention at this ritical juncture is not needed nd may well exacerbate the dis- ute,” Hahn wrote. The contract for workers who handle trade at 29 major West Coast ports expired July 1. Both sides had kept goods flowing with short-term extensions, but the lat est extension expired Sunday. Without a deal, dockworkers could stage work slowdowns as early as Tuesday. Shipping lines that employ the dockworkers have threatened a lockout if there is a job action. Union workers ranging from dockworkers to pipefitters to schoolteachers joined in the sol idarity demonstration and picnic Monday, where talk centered on the possibility of a strike or lockout. “If there is no contract, there will be no business as usual at California’s ports,” said Jerry Acosta, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO. On average, a full-time long shoreman earned $80,000 last year and a full-time foreman averaged $167,000, according to maritime association records. The sticking points for a new contract are arbitration, health benefits and new technology that could cost jobs. Refugees find new life in America WASHINGTON (AP)- Tightened security imposed after Sept. 11 has, at least temporarily, prevented thousands of people living in squalid refugee camps from starting a new life in the United States. Increased scrutiny of applicants has produced a sharp decline in the number of refugees — partic ularly Muslims — accepted by the State Department for U.S. reset tlement. 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