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OPAS MSC Three Decades of Performing Arts mfiakten I entertain I inipire. 8 Wednesday, November 19, 2003 THE BATTALIA U.N. agency pulls foreign stal out of Afghanistan after slayinj By Paul Haven THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Unable to protect its staff from Afghanistan’s cascade of vio lence, the U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday pulled international workers out of the volatile south and east and suspended all aid to refugees returning from Pakistan. The decision, taken after the weekend slaying of a 29-year-old French refugee worker, could affect tens of thousands of Afghans. A group of international aid organizations also said Tuesday it was considering a pull out from the south, raising fears the desperately poor region could become even more isolated. “We are taking today a painful decision to temporarily reduce staff in the eastern and southern provinces,” said Filippo Grandi, the chief of mis- By Josef Hebert THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The House approved a far-reaching energy bill Tuesday that would provide billions of dollars in tax incentives for oil, gas and coal producers and give a boost to com farmers by requiring a dou bling of ethanol use in gasoline. It also would impose federal reliability rules on operators of high-voltage power lines for the first time, to reduce the likelihood of another cascading blackout like the one last summer. Republicans called the bill farsighted and a key to improv ing America’s energy security by expanding energy choices. But Democrats said the tax breaks amounted to giveaways to oil, gas and coal industries that don’t need the help. They also said the legislation fails to focus on ways to conserve ener gy and develop renewable fuels. The House passed the bill by sion in Afghanistan at the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. “We will review the situation after two weeks.” Some 30 foreign staff mem bers were being withdrawn, and refugee centers in the provinces of Nangarhar, Paktia, Khost and Kandahar were being closed, he said. The agency said Monday that it had withdrawn its surviving international staffer out of Ghazni, where Bettina Goislard was gunned down as she trav eled Sunday through a bazaar in a clearly marked U.N. vehicle. That same day, a remote-con trolled bomb went off beside a U.N. vehicle in Paktia province. And on Nov. 11. a car bomb exploded outside U.N. offices in Kandahar, wounding two people. Maki Shinohara. the UNHCR spokeswoman, said that to minimize the effects of the pullout, a limited number of a vote of 246-180, sending it to the Senate for final approval, probably later this week. Despite the wide margin of victory in the House, the bill could run into snags in the Senate over a provision that would shield the makers of a gasoline additive from liability lawsuits. The massive bill, covering some 1.400 pages, was crafted during weeks of largely closed- door negotiations between House and Senate Republicans and com pleted in a late-night conference just before midnight Monday despite Democratic protests. The first overhaul of the nation’s energy priorities in a decade, the legislation would pro vide $23 billion in energy-related tax incentives over 10 years, or nearly three times as much as the White House had said earlier this year it would accept. Nevertheless, President Bush hailed the House action. “I commend the House for its vote today and urge the Senate to act Afghans will keep the agencj’s offices open, and it will woit with other aid organizations to try to keep support flowing. “Operations will be scafe down, inevitably. The big[>s impact will be on refugees returning from Pakistan because we can’t operate the receptio; centers,” Shinohara said. Sfe said about 5,000 refugees returned from Pakistan eact w'eek in October, but with win ter approaching, only about 1,3(X) a week in November. Some 2.5 million Afghai refugees have returned to Ik country, in addition to 500,® internally displaced people, ski the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, mostly from Pakistai, and Iran. UNHCR said the few remaining Afghan staff woulf help keep aid flowing to most than 220,000 Afghan return® affected by the decision. 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