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At the same time, Mubarak added: “Israel
must fulfill its own responsibilities to rebuild trust
and restore normal Palestinian life, and carry out
other obligations under the road map.”
The Arab leaders’ statement, however, con
tained few specifics in terms of what Arab leaders
were willing to do to advance the peace plan.
Mubarak did not expressly voice strong support
for Abbas as the Palestinian leader and he did not
say other Arab nations were willing to follow his
nation’s lead in recognizing Israel’s right to exist
— a key step of the peace plan.
“If all sides fulfill their obligations, we can
make steady progress on the road towards
Palestinian statehood, a secure Israel and a just
and comprehensive peace,” Bush said. “We seek
true peace, not just a pause between more wars
and intefadehs, but a permanent reconciliation
among the peoples of the Middle East.”
Mubarak said they would help the Palestinian
Authority fight terrorists “to allow it to consoli
date its authority in democratic and accountable
institutions” and would make sure that all aid to
Palestinians goes to solely to their official leader
ship.
Bush, who initiated the summit here, was in the
driver’s seat. He took the wheel of a large golf cart
to ferry the leaders to their joint appearance>
podiums set up with the sea as their
Mubarak, his eyes hidden by sunglasses,
co-pilot.
“Achieving these goals will require corns
and moral vision from every side from eveii
leader,” Bush said. “America is committed and!
am committed in helping all the parties to
the hard and heroic decisions that will k
peace.
Also attending were Saudi Crown
Abdullah, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin
Khalifa and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Jordan have peace treaties with Israel.
Eschewing a formal session on the
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer
Bush and the five Arab leaders gathered fc
minutes in a “spontaneous” meeting wit
staff. Still, they went through the motions o(
marching into a meeting room, briefly tooktfc
seats around a large octagonal table in front of:
stand of participating nations, then broke fo
lunch.
Sitting at the table. Bush said: “We must
allow a few people, a few killers, a few terrorist!
to destroy the dreams and hopes of the many."
Pointing directly at Abbas, Bush said, “You.
sir, have got a responsibility, and you've
assumed it. I want to work with you andsodc
the other leaders here.”
Israel releases prisoners before summit
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By Ravi Nessman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AL KHADER, West Bank —
Israel freed about 100 Palestinian
prisoners Tuesday in a goodwill
gesture ahead of a Mideast peace
summit with President Bush. The
oldest, convicted of killing 13
Israelis, was greeted upon his
release with clasped hands by
Yasser Arafat.
Ahmad Jubarah, 68, was wel
comed by Arafat in a televised
meeting clearly meant to send a
message that the Palestinian
leader — despite being banished
from the summit — was still in
charge.
The summit Wednesday in the
Jordanian resort of Aqaba marks
the official launch of the “road
map,” a three-year plan that aims
to end 32 months of violence and
lead to the creation of a
Palestinian state by 2005.
At the meeting, Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon will issue a
statement accepting the principle
of a Palestinian state, an Israeli
official said. His
Palestinian coun-
terpart, Mahmoud
Abbas, will recog
nize Israel’s right
to exist side by
side with a
Palestinian state,
Palestinian offi
cials said.
In the run-up to
the meeting, Israel
eased some travel
restrictions on
Palestinians,
expanded fishing
rights in the Gaza
Strip and agreed
a
This is merely
public relations for
Israel to show
that they are
implementing the
agreement with the
Palestinians.
released prisoners, some of
whom had been jailed for weeks
and others for months or years,
jumped off a bus, kneeled on the
ground and prayed.
Excited relatives ran past
unguarded concrete barriers to
greet the prisoners, all but one of
whom had been held without
charges or trial at the Ketziot,
Ofer and Megiddo military pris
ons, according to the army.
The exception was Jubarah,
who was released from the
Ashkelon prison in southern
Israel, where he had been held for
nearly three decades for his role
in a 1975 Jerusalem bomb attack
that killed 13 people.
Many Israelis, including some
Cabinet ministers, objected to
Jubarah’s release, saying it violat
ed Israel’s principle of not freeing
prisoners directly involved in ter
ror attacks.
A crowd of cheering
Palestinians hoisted Jubarah on
their shoulders, and he was driv
en to a hotel to relax before meet
ing with Arafat. He clasped hands
with the
Palestinian leader
as photographers
took their picture.
Arafat has not
been invited to
the Jordan sum
mit, part of U.S.
and Israeli efforts
to isolate the
Palestinian leader,
who Israel blames
for militant
attacks. Abbas
said Tuesday that
he complained to
U.S. officials
about their boy-
Where peace plan disagreements lie
When President Bush formally presents the “road map” peace
plan to Israeli and Palestinian leaders at Wednesday's summit in
Aqaba, Jordan, long-standing issues of contention will once again
be the focus of negotiations.
Settlements
Militants
Refugees
Progress
Israel
Does not want to
dismantle all of
the roughly 100
outposts
Must be
disarmed and
demands arrests
Wants Palestinians
to renounce claims
of a “right of return"
for refugees, and
recognize Israel's
right to exist as a
“Jewish state”
Says other
measures must
come after a
crackdown on
militants
Palestinians Road map
All must go j All must go
Trying to
persuade
groups to
stop terror
attacks
Calls for "sustained,
targeted and effective
operations against all
those engaged in terror
and dismantlement of
terrorist capabilities and
infrastructure"
Refuse
Calls only for a
statement on “Israel's
right to exist in peace
and security”
the College of Geosciences, we
feel as though we have just the
best faculty going,” she said.
“To be able to acknowledge
them with an endowed chair is a
real honor.”
A new professorship will
also be announced within the
next month, Richardson said.
“We’re hiring the best, and
we want to keep the best
because we want to be the best,”
she said. “But that means that
we are subject, just like the
other colleges are, to being
rated. And that has been happen
ing over the past couple of years
because our faculty salaries are
not always at the level of our
peer institutions.”
Richardson said that the loss
of faculty to chaired positions;
top institutions is to be expect
ed, but the University d
want to lose people due to los
salaries.
Richardson said two no
degree programs, environment
studies and environmental get
sciences, became available it
undergraduates in the fall c
2002 and looks forward to the:
success.
“We are strongly committee
to the education of our i
grads and education ofourgrai
students,” she said.
Richardson has worked!
A&M since 1985 asaprofessoi
of oceanography, geology ani
geophysics. She received het
doctorate in oceanography froit
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology/Woods
Oceanographic Institution.
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Say all steps
should be
concurrent
Says “parties are
expected to perform
their obligations in
parallel, unless
otherwise indicated"
50 students a year for the first five years and 100 students per yen
thereafter. Prior said.
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resources and a research center for sustainable development.
SOURCE: Associated Press
— Ala Iwewi
released Israeli prisoner
to release a few of the estimated
7,000 Palestinians in Israeli cus
tody. The Israelis did not give
exact numbers.
As the two sides prepared for
the summit, violence peristed.
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian
policeman in the northern Gaza
town of Beit Hanoun, Palestinian
doctors said. The army said sol
diers fired at armed Palestinians
in a prohibited zone.
In the village of A1 Khader
near Bethlehem, about a dozen
cott of Arafat.
“Arafat should not be isolated,
he should not be treated in this
way, Yasser Arafat remains a
symbol for the Palestinian peo
ple,” he told ABC’s Peter
Jennings in an interview in
Sharm el-Sheik after the summit
there.
Earlier Abbas said he would
not visit the United States until
Arafat is granted freedom of
movement. Israel has held him
under virtual house arrest in his
Ramallah headquarters for more
than a year.
Among the other prisoners
released Tuesday was Amjad
Azzeh, 24, who said Israeli sol
diers arrested him six months
ago, accusing him of being an
agent of Fatah, whose anned
wing has carried out numerous
terror attacks. Tears welled in his
eyes when a childhood friend
enveloped him in an energetic
embrace for nearly a minute.
Ayman Azzeh said seeing his
brother made him optimistic the
coming summit could achieve
real results.
“It gives us hope that some
thing good will happen this
time,” he said.
Other prisoners were less san
guine.
“I was going to be released
anyway next week,” Ala Iwewi
said as he greeted his family in
Hebron. “This is merely public
relations for Israel to show that
they are implementing the agree
ment with the Palestinians.”
Tayseer Khaled, a hard-line
PLO official arrested in February,
was freed late Monday. Khaled
and Jubarah were mentioned in
an Israeli government statement
listing goodwill gestures, follow
ing a meeting Thursday between
Sharon and Abbas.
Sharon has told his Cabinet he
would likely make a declaration
at the summit committing Israel
to dismantling settlement out
posts set up in violation of Israeli
law. Stopping all settlement con
struction is a key element of the
peace plan.
Abbas is supposed to reiter
ate that the Palestinian
Authority opposes all acts of
violence and will work to stop
the “military intefadah,” a refer
ence to attacks that have killed
more than 750 Israelis in the lat
est round of violence.
Abbas has been working to
secure a cease-fire with militant
groups. Israeli officials have
said they would probably accept
a cease-fire for now, as long as
the groups are disarmed soon
after and their leaders arrested.
“Sustainable development is one of the main areas of researf
here on campus. They would have a parallel program in Qatari
would be similar to the sustainable coastal margins program
we’re running here on campus,” said Dr. Mahlon Kennicutt,profe
sor of oceanography and team leader of the Sustainable Coastal
Margins Program.
The Qatar Foundation has also proposed a third research
that would focus on cultural studies that is currently under discus
sion, Prior said. Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa AlTham
has been cultivating relations with the United States since beconw
head of the state of Qatar in 1995.
In 2002, the United States began transferring military
from Saudi Arabia to Qatar. Qatar served as a critical command cen
ter for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Hamad began his plans for “Education City,” a goal for several
universities to be established in Qatar, after becoming theEmirof
Qatar. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and
Commonwealth University’s Design School are already established
in Qatar.
Chilifest
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MADD hopes to receive
additional funds to present the
program in the seven counties
the Brazos Valley chapter serv
ices.
Gilmore said Chilifest has
donated more than a half a
million dollars to local chari
ties in the last four years, and
remains dedicated to helping
the Brazos Valley community.
not have the required vaccina
tions, there is a grace periodof
one semester but foreign
students must
immediately.
For more information
these diseases and their vaccina
tions, go to http://shs.tamu.edi
or contact Student 1
Services at 979-845-1549.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Toronto SARS cases rise
TORONTO (AP) - Increasing SARS
cases in Canada's largest city is worry
ing the World Health Organization,
which discussed the possibility of re
imposing a travel advisory on Toronto,
a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Health officials have reported 62
probable cases of severe acute respira
tory syndrome in a new cluster of cases
that became known after the initial
outbreak in March and April was
believed under control.
The biggest outbreak of SARS outside
of Asia has killed 32 people in the
Toronto area, including a 60-year-old
man who died May 20 and had his
case reported Monday.
"We've been concerned by the
increasing number of cases in
Toronto," said Maria Cheng, a spokes
woman for the WHO communicable
diseases division.
She said the Toronto situation was
discussed at a meeting Tuesday to
review travel advisories that have been
issued. No change was made because
the new SARS cluster in the city
appeared limited to hospitals.
Afghan fighting continues
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -
Forces of two regional Afghan army
commanders, both loyal to President
Hamid Karzai, clashed in southern
Afghanistan, leaving three soldiers
dead and wounding two others, a
senior official said Tuesday.
The fighting between the soldiers of
commanders Abdul Raziq and
Fahida erupted Monday near a U.S.
base at Spinboldak, about 75
southwest of the southern city of
Kandahar, district chief Fazaluddin
Agha told The Associated Press.
One of the Afghan soldier's killed
Sakhi Dad, was also a part-time trans
lator for the U.S. army, Agha said.
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