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Neither side budges in Mideast confrontation
MADRID, Spain — Arab dele
gates spurned an invitation Thursday
from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir to go to Israel to negotiate.
In their first exchanges on the floor
of the historic conference, Arab and
Israeli leaders traded recriminations
and clung to familiar positions. The
Arabs demanded all the land they lost
in the 1967 war. Israel demanded
recognition before it would even
consider yielding territory.
The atmosphere was more con
frontational than in Wednesday’s
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opening session. Shamir called it a
“garden of thorns.”
The Arabs argued that peace was
conditional on Israeli willingness to
give up the captured territories. “Every
inch,” insisted Syria’s foreign minis
ter, Farouk al-Sharaa.
Shamir said “The issue is not terri
tory but our existence.”
“We appeal to you to renounce the
jihad (holy war) against Israel,” he
said.
“Blessed are the peacemakers,”
said Jordanian Foreign Minister Kamel
Abu-Jaber. “We arc willing to live
Convoy brings
food, medicine
to Dubrovnik
DUBROVNIK, Yugoslavia — A
flotilla bringing badly needed food
and medicine sailed through a federal
navy blockade into this ancient port
Thursday, as Serbian-led federal forces
attacked elsewhere in Croatia.
Thousands of people jammed
Dubrovnik’s dock to greet the Slavija
ferry and 28 other boats carrying 850
people, including Croatian leaders,
delayed by gunfire and a search by
federal authorities.
Crowds, waving olive branches and
Croatian flags, cheered as Stipe Mcsic,
the Croat who heads Yugoslavia’s
virtually defunct federal presidency,
walked down the Slavija gangplank,
miles from the federal army’s hilltop
positions Overlooking Dubrovnik’s
stone walls.
Roaring “Stipe!” the emotional
mass waved banners bearing slogans
such as “Welcome to our Croatian
Dubrovnik.” They sang Croatia’s
anthem and wept.
Dubrovnik became a symbolic prize
in Croatia’s war after federal troops
and gunboats laid siege a month ago.
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side by side on the land,” said Haidar
Abdul-Shafi, representing the Pales
tinians. Shamir began his speech with
a simple “Shalom.”
Although the Arab and Israeli
delegation heads did not applaud each
other’s speeches, Thursday’s session
was a milestone. It marked the first
time Palestinians and Israelis have
addressed each other in a formal
negotiating format.
While the conference itself kept to
the format scripted by its architect,
Secretary of Slate James Baker, ques
tions arose over how it will develop
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passage with the military through the
Navy blockade was a morale booster
for Croats in their four-month-old war
with Serb insurgents and the Serb-led
military that flared after Croatia de
clared independence.
when the ceremonies end and the real
face-to-face bargaining begins.
“There is no better way to make
peace than to talk in each other s
home. Avoiding such talks is a denial
of the purpose of the negotiations,
Shamir said.
The Arabs want to talk on neutral
ground, at least until Israel proves
willing to consider their demand for
territorial concessions, Palestinian
rights and an end to building Jewish
settlements in the occupied territo
ries.
“The momentum in Madrid is good,
the spirit in Madrid is good, why
don’t we keep it here?” said Jordan’s
foreign minister, Kamel Abu Jaber.
He said an argument over venue posed
a “danger of disrupting the whole
momentum of the conference.”
The first round of face-to-face
negotiations is to begin Sunday in
Madrid, Israeli officials said. It will
deal only with procedural matters.
Still in question is where the substan
tive bilateral talks will take place.
Shamir saw Israel as the victim of
sustained Arab “boycott, blockade,
terrorism and outright war.”
New districts to ensure
most minority seats ever
The U.S. Congress elected in 1992
will include far more black and His
panic members than any Congress in
history. That is being ensured now, in
one of the most significant rounds of
redistricting ever.
New rules issued in an updated
Voting Rights Act have added a new
dimension to this old political blood
sport — the once-a-decade exercise
of redrawing the lines that divide one
political district from the next.
The racial mandate isn’t the only
change since 1981. Computers have
added a high-tech spin to this year’s
rcdistricting, and a new political bal
ance has made it more contentious
than ever.
The minority gains, however, are
the most potentially significant change.
Under a 1982 revision to the 1964
Voting Rights Act, slates must ensure
that minority communities arc given
intact political districts, rather than
splintering their voters into majority
white districts.
As a result, Rep. Martin Frost,
who chairs the Democrats’ rcdistrict
ing organization, Impac 2000, esti
mates that there will be about 20
more minority-group lawmakers in
the next Congress.
What, if anything, that will mean
for the nation’s political balance is
difficult to say, even though Demo
crats and Republicans say virtually
all the new minority seats will be
Democratic.
In one of those Machiavellian twists
of democracy, some Democrats worry
that Republicans will pack so many
Democratic voters into black and
Hispanic districts that surrounding
districts, purged of Democrats, will
fall to the Republicans.
“It’s a factor in redistricting which
sometimes accrues to the benefit of
the Republicans,” acknowledged a
Republican strategist, Tom Hofcller,
rcdistricting director for the National
Republican Congressional Commit
tee.
He added, however, that the proc
ess will often work to the Democrats ’
advantage.
Frost noted that Republicans stand
to make significant gains in new
suburban districts that arc created as a
result of urban sprawl.
“This thing could wind up being a
virtual wash nationwide — that they
gain in suburban seats, we gain in
minority seats, and nobody gains any
advantage,” he said.
Unusual storms haunt
East Coast, Midwest
President Bush’s
vacation home hit
An intense extra-tropical Atlantic
storm dubbed E.T. built surging tides
that hurled 20-foot waves into low
lying East Coast areas Thursday,
ravaging houses, boats, sea defenses
and beaches from Maine to Florida.
More than 100 beachfront homes
in Maine, including President Bush’s
vacation home at Kennebunkport, were
damaged. The stone pier where Bush
..docks his speedboat Fidelity outside
his house was ripped with a 15- to 20
foot hole.
A separate storm dumped heavy
snow on much of the nation’s midsec
tion, from the Rockies to Texas. At
least six mayors in Nebraska appealed
for a postponement of Halloween trick
or-treating because of snow.
At least one death was blamed on
the Atlantic storm. Two people were
reported missing, a fisherman who
was swept from a rocky point at Nar
raganscit, R.I., on Tuesday night, and
an Air National Guardsman whose
four crewmatcs were rescued from a
life raft early Thursday after their
helicopter went down.
The 200-mile-widc Atlantic storm
formed earlier this week off Canada
and is called “extra-tropical” because
it didn’t originate in the tropics as
hurricanes do.
Meteorologists said it followed a
southward course Thursday and ap
peared to be weakening as it stalled
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At high tide Thursday morning,
waves up to 20 feet crashed against
Boston Light, a lighthouse in Boston
Harbor.
A huge cold front lingered over
the northern Plains, parts of the Mid
west and Southwest.
A foot or more of snow covered
parts of Arizona and up to 2 feet fell
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in Colorado. Snow also fell on Texas, ■
Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and*
Nebraska. *
As much as 5 inches covered*
Nebraska, where al least six mayors*
rescheduled official trick-or-treating*
for the weekend or later. Omaha Mayor*
P.J. Morgan declared Sunday alter*|
noon “Trick or Treat Day” in the*
state’s largest city. H