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U.S. votes against Israel in resolution I
WASHINGTON - The Bush ad
ministration, after day-long negotia
tions at the United Nations, has de
cided to cast its vote against Israel in
criticism of the slaying of at least 19
Palestinian Arabs in a Jerusalem melee,
U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The resolution, drafted by Ameri
can diplomats, was adopted by the
four other permanent members of the
U.N. Security Council and is thus
veto-proof, the officials told The
Associated Press.
It condemns the violence that broke
out Monday “and particularly the
excessive Israeli response,” the offi
cials said.
The resolution also welcomes the
decision by U.N. Secretary-General
Javier Perez dc Cuellar to send a
delegation to Jerusalem to investi
gate the incident.
The officials said the resolution
calls on all parties to refrain from
violence. In a gesture to Israel, it
expresses regret that worshipers also
were attacked.
The United States rarely votes
against Israel in the Security Council.
Far more frequently, it uses its veto
power to shield Israel against what is
judged to be unfair criticism.
But, in this instance, the officials
said, the Bush administration con
cluded Israeli policemen used exces
sive force against Palestinian Arabs
who hurled rocks and bottles at Jews
praying at the Western Wall.
President Bush said Israeli secu
rity forces should have acted “with
more restraint” in battling Palestinian
demonstrators outside the holy Temple
Mount in Jerusalem.
“I am very, very saddened by this
needless loss of life,” he said at a
news conference.
At least 19 Arabs were killed and
more than 100 wounded Sunday dur
ing an hour-long battle outside A1
Aksa mosque as thousands of Arabs
threw rocks and bottles at Jews pray
ing at the Western Wall below. Eleven
Jews observing the festival of Succot
were hurt in the barrage.
Meanwhile, in a parallel move, the
State Department in a travel advisory
suggested Americans avoid the West
Bank and Gaza because of recurrent
disturbances in the territories.
At the United Nations, a represen
tative from occupied Kuwait joined
his rival from Iraq and more than 30
speakers in condemning Israel’s treat
ment of Palestinians and demanding
that Israeli withdraw from territories
captured in the 1967 Middle East
Israel seals religious site, imposes curfew
JERUSALEM - Israel sealed the
Temple Mount for a day and im
posed sweeping curfews in the
occupied territories Tuesday to head
off Arab protests over the killing of
19 Palestinians at the hallowed site.
Monday’s blood bath threatened
to rekindle the Palestinian uprising
and thrust Israel back into the spot
light at a time when the Persian
Gulf crisis had given it a respite
from international criticism of its
policies.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
rebuffed suggestions of a U.N. Se
curity Council investigation into
the violence.
While large parts of the occu
pied West Bank and Gaz.a Strip
were under curfews and village
closures, rioting erupted in three
Arab districts of Jerusalem and in
Nazareth, a mainly Arab city in
side Israel.
In Umm Tuba on the southern
outskirts of Jerusalem, two border
policemen were stabbed with a
screwdriver by Arabs they had
stopped at a checkpoint. As the car
drove away the policemen opened
fire, hitting two occupants, police
said. None of the injuries was seri
ous, said police spokesman Uzi
Sanduri.
Police also fired tear gas to dis
perse dozens of activists who
blocked roads in Nazareth with rocks
and garbage cans, an Arab reporter
said.
Masked youths shouting pro
Iraqi slogans smashed a depart
ment store’s windows and beat
shoppers.
Police seized the keys to the
gates of the Temple Mount, Is
lam’s third holiest site, and fired
tear gas at Moslems who tried to
break through their cordon, an Arab
reporter at the scene said.
Jerusalem’s chief Moslem cleric,
80-ycar-old Saad al-Din al-Alami,
was overcome by tear gas and car
ried away on a stretcher and hospi
talized.
Moslem leaders said the keys
were returned after dark to allow
evening prayers. They said it was
the first time Israel has scaled the
Temple Mount, a compound con
taining the city’s two main mosques.
war.
“We know full well the bitterness
and sufferings of the unarmed Pales
tinian people under occupation, be
cause we are passing through a simi
lar experience,” said Sheik Sabah al
Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah of Kuwait.
Iraq’s deputy permanent envoy
Sabah Talat Kadrat accused the United
States and its al I ies of “hypocrisy ” for
shielding Israel over the years and
failing to condemn and punish Israel
for violence against Palestinians.
During his news conference, Bush
appealed for “calm on all sides” and
three times referred to “the Palestine
question” as needing a solution. Pre
vious presidents are not known to
have used the phrase.
Arabs and their supporters long
have demanded the establishment of
a slate called Palestine on Israeli-held
land. Bush’s Midcast policy deals with
East Jerusalem, Ga/a and the West
Bank as occupied territory but has
been opposed to Palestinian state
hood.
Bush retracts talk of trade-ott,i
just says no to tax exchanges I
WASHINGTON - President Bush
appeared to open the door Tuesday to
higher income taxes on the wealthy
as pan of a budget compromise but
later abandoned that strategy under
pressure from Republican senators,
senators and officials said.
The quick turnabout came after
Bush met with GOP senators and was
told not to try to trade lower capital
gains taxes, which he wants, for higher
income taxes on the wealthiest Ameri
cans, which Democrats want.
Bush initially voiced a new readi
ness to bargain with congressional
Democrats on the long-divisive tax
issue after signing a temporary spend
ing bill that ended a three-day gov
ernment shutdown. The agreement
gives Congress until Oct. 19 to come
up with a new $500 billion, five-year
deficit-reduction package.
At a morning news conference,
Bush had said he could accept higher
income taxes on affluent taxpayers
“at some level” if il were coupled
with a reduction in capital-gams taxes.
Ho w e ver, R cp ubl ican leaders w amed
Bush away from that idea.
After a latc-aftcmoon meeting
between Bush and GOP lawmakers,
Sen. Bob Packwood. R-Orc., said,
“We all put up our hands and said,
‘No deal on (tax) rates at all.* He
(Bush) just acquiesced in it.”
Capital gains, which are profits
from the sale of assets such as houses
orcorporate stock, currently arc taxed
at the same rate as ordinary income.
The administration has argued that a
lower tax rate would stimulate the
economy; Democrats have countered
that most of the benefits would go to
the wealthy.
Although he declined to discuss
details at the news conference, Bush
had clearly indicated he could sup
port a compromise coupling higher
taxes on the wealthiest Americans in
exchange for the cut in capital-gains
lax rates that he has long sought.
“That’s on the table. That’s been
talked about. And if it’s proper, if it
can be worked in proper balance be
tween the capital gains rale and in
come lax changes, fine,” Bush said.
But later, Republican leaders said
they cautioned Bush against pursuing
such a trade, suggesting Democrats
would never agree to drop capital
gains tax rates low enough to make
the bargain worthwhile.
“The president agreed. Our uni
form position was that we will not go
up on the (income tax ) rates, no mat
ter what,’’ said Packwood, the senior
Republican on the Senate Finance
Committee.
“Stop trying to buy us off with
capital gains. We’re not going to
change that summit agreement,’’ said
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, at a
remark directed at Democrats.
Former generals
charged in death
of Polish priest
WARSAW, Poland - Charges
that two former police generals
ordered the murder of a Solidar
ity priest are the first major
prosecution of Poland’s old guard
and officially reopen a case most
Poles never considered closed.
The arrests in the case of the
Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko come
six years after the crime that
shocked the nation, and at the
outset of a presidential race in
which Prime Minister Tadcusz
Mazowiecki’s careful treatment
of former Communists is being
challenged by Lech Walesa.
On Monday, authorities also
disclosed that a former interior
minister and six other officials
have been accused of taking
bribes of gold and jewelry dat
ing to 1971.
“In cases of clear crimes, party
people will be punished. If
proven, these people will be
condemned,” Aleksander S mo
lar, a senior adviser to Mazow
iecki, told an American Society
of Newspaper Editors delega
tion Tuesday.
Court rules school must allow
religious groups to use space
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court sent an unsettling message Tues
day to public schools that refuse to
rent space to outside religious organi
zations while allowing such access
for non-religious groups.
The justices, without comment,
turned down the appeal of a Centen
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nial, Pa., high school that had been
forced to rent weekend use of its
auditorium to the Campus Crusade
for Christ.
A federal appeals court ruled that
denying such access would violate
the group’s free-specch rights.
Tuesday’s court action set no na
tional precedent but allowed the ap
peals court ruling to become binding
law in Pennsylvania, Delaware and
New Jersey. The appeals court ruling
also could serve as a model for other
courts.
Lawyers for the Centennial school
district said the appeals court ruling,
if applied nationwide, would convert
“most American public school facili
ties into open public forums, to which
even the most fractious religious and
political speakers must be routinely
allowed access.”
The high court last June upheld the
federal Equal Access Act, in which
Congress required that virtually all
public high schools must allow stu- '
dent prayer groups to meet and wor
ship if other student clubs arc permit
ted at school.
The court said in its June decision
that the law does not violate the con
stitutionally required separation of
church and state.
But the federal law applies only to
student groups — not to outside or
ganizations seeking use of school
facilities.
In the Pennsylvania case, the 3rd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals relied,
instead, on the Constitution’s First
Amendment when it ruled last sum
mer that school officials violated the
free-specch rights of Student Ven
ture, a subsidiary of the Campus
Crusade for Christ.
The officials refused to rent space
at William Tenncnt High School for a
program aimed at religious conver
sion.
Clash’s ‘ Rock the Casbah ’
brings U.S. radio to Gulf
U.S. armed forces radio took to the airwaves Tuesday and Saddam
Hussein announced that Iraq had added another missile to its arsenal.
Rock ‘n’ roll blared across the Saudi desert as armed forces radio
debuted in the Gulf region with live broadcasts.
The first song on Desert Shield Network FM 107 brought the troops
a little closer to home — The Clash’s “Rock The Casbah” about a light
over “boogie sound” in a traditional Middle Eastern city.
Saddam said Iraq’s new missile could be launched “against the
targets of evil when the day of reckoning comes.”
He made it clear he was referring to Israel and the U.S.-led forces
massed in Saudi Arabia to deter further Iraqi aggression following the
invasion of Kuwait.
Iraq has olhcr missiles lhal can travel hundreds of miles and it was
not clear what the significance of a new one would be.
Saddam appeared to use the occasion to try to exploit the deaths
Monday of 19 Palestinians in Jerusalem to whip up support for his
seizure of Kuwait.
The Pentagon said the Navy continued to search for eight Marines
whose two helicopters disappeared Monday over the North Arabian Sea
during a training exercise. Rescue teams located debris from one of the
aircraft on Monday, but no bodies.
In other developments:
• A U.S. Embassy official in Baghdad said that a U.S.-charteied
Iraqi jetliner will evacuate about 350 more Americans today, along
with an unknown number of other foreigners from Kuwait.
• Japan’s governing party was to present a proposal to a special
session of Parliament on Friday lhal would allow military forces to help
with U.N. peacekeeping efforts in the Persian Gulf and to be armed in
ease they were attacked, a party source said.
The proposal would allow Japanese forces to be sent overseas for
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