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Netanyahu, who calls for the expulsion of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, said he will challenge Sharon for the party leadership in a primary to be held within weeks. The winner of that struggle will face the Labor Party leader in the general election. One of the issues on the table then will be how to approach the Palestinians, whether to empha size negotiation or war and whether to expel Arafat. The dramatic developments underscored the growing polit ical volatility in Israel, which has had five prime ministers in seven years. Sharon’s coalition lasted only 20 months, despite his aim to hang on until next October, the originally sched uled election date. Sharon flip-flopped over 24 hours, saying Monday it would be irresponsible to hold early elections, and announcing Tuesday he was dissolving par liament because he was unable to set up a stable coali tion after the departure of the moderate Labor Party. Sharon accused Labor of “political caprice” by bolting over Sharon’s refusal to cut funding to Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian reaction was muted. “We hope the Israeli people will elect a government that can deliver peace,” said Cabinet minister Saeb Ereket. The elections could well be influenced by the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which boasted Tuesday their bombing and shooting attacks on Israelis led to Sharon’s downfall. In the past, suicide bomb ing campaigns by Palestinian militants strenghtened Israel’s hawkish right. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad vowed to continue such attacks dur ing the race. "Sharon’s failure is one of the achievements of the upris ing,” said Ismail Abu Shanab, a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip. On Monday, an Islamic Jihad bomber killed himself and two Israelis in a shopping mall in central Israel — and Hamas said there would be more attacks during the election campaign. The violence has pushed Sharon calls for new Israeli elections Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dissolved the Israeli parliament Tuesday and set new elections for Jan. 28. His first challengefo, re-election will be for leadership of the right-wing Likud party,, an upcoming primary. His chief opponent, former Prime Minis":- Benjamin Netanyahu, has accepted the foreign minister’s positoi in the transition government. Ihi Benjamin Netanyahu. 53 ► Degrees in architecture and management studies from M.l.T. ► Joined Israeli army commando unit, 1967 ► Deputy Chief of Mission at Israeli Embassy. Washington. D.C., 1982-1984 ► Named U.N. ambassador in 1984 ^ Elected to Israeli parliament in 1988 ► Leader of Likud Party 1992-1999 ► Elected Prime Minister in 1996; defeated in 1999 elections by Labor Party candidate Ehud Barak Ariel Sharon. 74 ► Career sots 1 942-1973. ftr partinalloflswi five wars beginning r--. | war of independence. ► Member of parliament sinct 1974; has headed many minis!* | including the Ministry of For» Affairs under Netanyahu ► Leader of Likud Party 1999- present ► Elected Prime Minister in February 2001, defeatingBarji SOURCES: Associated Press. Israeli Parliament; American-1 sraeli Cooperative Enterpriset Israelis to the right amid growing disillusionment with Arafat, who has done little to stop the attacks. However, the result of the election could be yet another Likud-Labor coalition. Both Sharon and Labor chief Binyamin Ben-Eliezer face internal challenges. In Labor’s Nov. 19 election for a new leader. Ben-Eliezer — who as Sharon’s defense minis ter oversaw military offensives against the Palestinians-fc a pair of more dovish cai:- dates, legislator Haim Rr- and Haifa Mayor Aim Mitzna, a retired general. Likud's primaries willti* place in coming weeks, hi polls suggested Netanyahu, was voted out of office in would wrest the party leads ship from Sharon, but ira recent surveys indiealedhelii fallen behind. Vatican drafts new guidelines for priests VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Tuesday it is drafting new guidelines for accepting candidates for the priesthood that will address the question of whether gays should be barred. The brief statement by the Vatican's Press Office gave no indication what the conclusion may be despite news reports that the document will include directives against the admission of homosexuals. Vatican congregations have been study ing the issue for several years? huf the ques tion has received renewed attention given the clerical sex abuse scandal in the United States. Most of the victims of molestation by priests have been adolescent boys. Experts on sex offenders say there is no credible evidence that homosexuals are more likely than heterosexuals to abuse children, but several church leaders have argued that gay clergy are to blame for the scandal. That suggestion was criticized by Charlie Spiegel, executive director of Our Family Coalition, a homosexual rights group in San Francisco. “Policies like this have been shown to produce hate and violence, not the Policies like this have been shown to produce hate and violence, not the religious values of love and^ understanding 99 1 —Charlie Spiegel Executive director. Our Family Coalition religious values of love and under standing,” Spiegel said. The Vatican Press Office said the Congregation for Catholic Education has begun drafting the document, but no publi cation date has been set. It will not be pub lished at least until next year, the office said. A Vatican official, requesting anonymi ty, said the question of admitting homosex uals and other issues will be addressed in a letter to seminaries. The Press Office issued the statement after the Rome newspaper La published an article Tuesday saying anina draft had concluded seminaries should® men with “homosexual tendencies e that Vatican officials were rushing tocotj pletc the document because ol theU scandal. The Catholic News Service of:] United States reported last month ilia draft document containing against admitting gays was circiu' among various Vatican consultantsbtn it was not clear when it might be publish- As an indication of the debate goin^ an American staff member of t Congregation for Bishops, the !l Andrew Baker, published an artice September in the Jesuit magazine Amefij arguing that gays should not beordair If a man is gay, “then he shouldnoi admitted to holy orders, and his preset in the seminary would not only gi^ ^ false hope but it may, in fact,.bin er therapy he needs. Baker wrote. 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