Tk T * d By The ]^( 6W S D 1 gest Mi^b^/iiritolersen 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 _ In the Supreme Court 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. 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