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by R.DeLuna Rochon
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institutions, including a
stint at A&M from 19 1
1995, when he was an assist®
professor in the Department if
Educational Curriculum si
Instruction.
Rochon is also the inte
director of the School
Education as well as theassi
ate dean for the College
Health, Physical Educati
Recreation and leads
Education at UW-La Crosse.
Rodney McClendon, et
chair of the search advisop
committee for the position,si
A&M President Robert \{
Gates and the search committs
will review Rochon an
other candidates, and ht
make a decision by July.
Continued from pagel
Mideast
Continued from page 1
cases of ticking bombs,” a
Cabinet official quoted Sharon as
saying.
Until now, Sharon had reject
ed the truce idea out of hand,
demanding an immediate crack
down on the militants, including
arresting their leaders.
However, Sharon’s new com
ments appeared highly condition
al. Until recently, the phrase
“ticking bomb” defined a mili
tant about to carry out an attack.
Then the Israelis widened the
definition after a botched effort to
assassinate Hamas leader Abdel
Aziz Rantisi last week, calling
him a “ticking bomb.’’That indi
cated that even if Hamas agrees
to a truce, its leaders might not be
safe from Israeli strikes that could
rekindle violence.
In a reflection of the unpre
dictable dynamic of the Mideast
conflict, other hopeful signs
emerged over the weekend for
the so-called “road map” plan,
which envisions an end to 32
months of violence and the cre
ation of a Palestinian state by
2005.
In talks Saturday with
Israeli Maj. Gen. Amos Gilad,
Dahlan proposed that Israeli
troops withdraw from large
areas of Gaza to positions held
before the outbreak of fighting
in September 2000. He asked
Israel to pull out of the West
Bank towns of Bethlehem and
Ramallah, the Palestinians’
administrative center.
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul
Mofaz said Sunday he is consid
ering a withdrawal from
Bethlehem and parts of Gaza and
said meetings with the
Palestinians would continue.
In a first phase, Israel would
pull out of the northern Gaza
towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit
Lahiya. Despite the talks, Israeli
forces entered Beit Hanoun early
Sunday, setting off a firefight that
killed one Palestinian and
wounded seven, doctors said.
And U.S. officials, under
scoring their nation’s commit
ment to the peace plan, arrived
in the region to monitor its
implementation.
The two Egyptian mediators,
I am optimistic
that all the
Palestinian factions
will work together.
Zakaria al-Agha
Fatah leader
assistants to Egyptian intelli
gence chief Omar Suleiman,
arrived in Gaza City on Sunday
for cease-fire talks with
Palestinian militants, most
importantly with the group
Hamas. They held a preliminary
meeting with top members of
Abbas’ mainstream Fatah move
ment Sunday afternoon; Fatah
also has carried out attacks,
despite Abbas’ call for them to
stop.
Zakaria al-Agha, a senior
Fatah leader, said a meeting with
all Palestinian groups was
planned for Monday.
“I am optimistic that all the
Palestinian factions will work
together,” he said after Sunday’s
meeting.
The mediators then went for
talks at Hamas founder Sheik
Ahmed Yassin’s house.
The renewed violence came
after a bloody week in which
dozens were killed on both sides
in bombings, shootings and mis
sile attacks.
The violence also spurred
intense U.S. mediation to rescue
the peace plan, which Bush
launched at a June 4 summit in
Aqaba, Jordan, with Abbas and
Sharon.
Bush said Sunday the world
must deal harshly with Hamas
and other militant groups that he
said were trying to sabotage the
peace process. He added: “I’m
confident we can achieve peace.
It’s going to be a tough road, but
I am determined to continue to
lend the weight of this govern
ment to advance peace.”
Dov Weisglass, a top Sharon
aide, meets U.S. national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice on
Monday in Washington.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
and other senior representatives
of the road map sponsors — the
United States, United Nations,
Russia and the European Union
— plan to meet Thursday in
Jordan.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State John Wolf, leading a team
of American officials in the
region to supervise implementa
tion of the road map, will meet
with Israeli officials Monday and
with Dahlan and Abbas on
Tuesday, Israel Radio said.
The road map plan calls for
Abbas to dismantle militant
groups. Israel has demanded a
crackdown, but Abbas said he
preferred to negotiate a cease
fire, fearing a crackdown would
lead to civil war.
Truce talks broke up a week
ago, but Palestinian officials said
they were optimistic an agree
ment could be reached.
Palestinian Information Minister
Nabil Amr quoted an Abbas
envoy to the talks as saying
progress had been made.
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Mecca
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connected to the May 12 suicide bombings
on Western residential compounds in the
Riyadh that killed 35 people, including nine
Americans and nine Saudi suicide bombers.
He did not elaborate.
The official said the suspects were plan
ning to carry out attacks in Mecca, Islam’s
holiest city, according to information gath
ered during interrogations Sunday. He did
not identify any intended targets.
The official said Saturday’s violence
started when police manning a checkpoint
tried to stop a car carrying the militants, who
fired on the police, killing two of them,
before fleeing to the al-Khalidiya apartment
building.
The holy city of Mecca, located some
450 miles west of Riyadh, welcomes mil
lions of Muslim pilgrims each year. The city
is the birthplace of Islam’s seventh-century
prophet, Muhammad.
Saudi authorities have cracked down on
suspected militants since the May 12 bomb
ings, which were seen as attacks not just
against foreigners but also the ruling Saudi
royal family for its close ties to the United
States.
U.S. and Saudi investigators have been
jointly probing the Riyadh bombings, which
have been linked to al-Qaida, the Muslim
terror network blamed for the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks’ on America. Saudi’s interior
minister Saturday said at least 30 people
have been identified as being linked to the
bombings, including people currently in
custody and those who died during or fol
lowing the attacks. It is unclear how many
people have been arrested.
On May 31, Yosif Salih Fahd Ala’yeeri
was killed in a gunfight with police in the
northern Saudi city of Hael. Ala’yeeri was
allegedly carrying a letter written by al-
Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
Ala’yeeri was among 19 al-Qaida opera
tives wanted following the May 6 discovery
of a Riyadh weapons cache. The group
said to be taking orders directly from
Laden and linked to the May 12 bombing;
Earlier this month, Saudi authoritieshii
announced the arrests of numerous people®
Medina, 540 miles west of the capital.
Security was unusually tight Su
with troops searching cars at checkpoints®
Mecca’s outskirts and throughout the
Police also patrolled inside and ou
Mecca’s Al-Nur hospital, where t
wounded Saturday were taken.
Abdul Khaliq Raheem Sheik, a50-yeaf
old Indian driver being treated for cuts,
three masked men holding guns
approached him earlier Saturday as
washed his employer’s car in al-Khalidiya
Sheik said the men demanded he
them from the area. When he refused
shot the car’s windows, and he was injure^
by flying glass.
The three then drove away, leaving Shell
behind. It was unclear if they were
sought or had been already killed or arrested
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