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Israel ready to
recognize PLO
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet
approved a self-rule plan for Palestin
ians in the occupied territories Mon
day after Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin said “the time has come.” to
take a chance for peace.
The approval by the 18-member
Cabinet was the first significant sign
of progress since the peace talks be
gan 22 months ago. Sixteen ministers
voted for the plan and two abstained.
The plan calls for autonomy to
begin in the the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank town of Jericho within
months.
Months of detailed negotiations,
however, would be needed to work
out details of self-rule in those areas
and elsewhere.
“This is the first agreement that has
been reached between Israel and the
Palestinian people,” said Environmen
tal Protection Minister Yossi Sand.
“All ministers expressed satisfaction
over the fact that the security of the
state of Israel is being assured.”
During the five-hour Cabinet meet
ing, 4,000 Jewish settlers and right
wing activists hurled eggs, then stones,
and called Rabin a “traitor.” Some
scuffled with leftist demonstrators
who held signs saying “give peace a
chance.”
In Jericho, some 20 right-wing
demonstrators, including two mem
bers of Parliament, moved into an old
synagogue on the northern outskirts
of the town and staged a sit-in, Israel
radio and television reported.
The army declared the town, sched
uled to be the seat of the self-rule
government, a closed military area
and was trying to get the squatters to
leave voluntarily.
On the Palestinian side, there were |
also bitter divisions over the plan.
“I am very enthusiastic that the
process continue. I hope to be able to
work with the (Rabin’s) Laborites in 1
Israel toward peace,” Bassam Abu
Sharif, a top aide to PLO leader Yasser
Arafat, told French television.
In the Gaza Strip, Islamic funda
mentalist groups issued leaflets and
wrote wall slogans denouncing the
self-rule plan. Hamas demanded a
general strike Tuesday, saying over
loudspeakers circulating in Gaza that
it would “cut the throat” of anyone
who dared even use a car.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators
were to sit down Tuesday for the start L
of a new round of talks expected to ["
finalize the self-rule plan.
“Every change has its risks, but the
time has come to take a chance for
peace,” Rabin said in a speech before
the Cabinet vote. “We stand on the
verge of a great opportunity.”
“There is movement along the
whole Arab front in readiness for
peace,” he said. “There are obstacles.
There are difficulties, but I’m con
vinced the horizons for peace are
open.”
In Washington, President Clinton
said before the Cabinet’s decision
that he was “very much encouraged”
by the apparent breakthrough in the 1
peace talks, but said it was too early to
say whether it would lead to renewed
dialogue between the United States
and the PLO. L
Autonomy plan
Full detail of the autonomy plan have
not been released, but officials have
given the following accounts:
• In Gaza and Jericho, the Israeli army
would withdraw from population
centers to security locations.
• Palestinians in Gaza and Jericho
would be given full control over their
internal affairs.
• Israel would maintain control over
entry points to the autonomous areas.
• Israel would remain in charge of \
Jewish settlements.
I Negotiations on problematic issues,
such as the status of Jerusalem,
would be postponed until talks on the
final status of the occupied lands
begin within two to three years.
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Omaha police make arrest after second murder in three days ■
OMAHA—Omaha police said
Monday that they had made an
arrest in what appeared to be the
city’s second homicide in three
days.
The body of 26-year-old Amy
Rewolinski was found by an ac
quaintance Sunday evening in an
apartment in south-central Omaha.
Sne was dead of a shotgun wound,
police said.
_Police said a 28-year-old Oma
ha man was arrested in Urbandale,
4owa, on a warrant charging first
degree murder and use of a firearm
to commit a felony.
Rewolinski did not live with the
man, but they were described as
acquaintances, police said.
A second woman, 80-year-old
Mary Buso, was found dead in her
soutn Omaha home Friday after
noon.
Omaha Police Sgt. William
Muldoon said detectives learned of
the Re wolinski killing Sunday when
the young woman’s acquaintance
called rescue workers to seek med
ical treatment for the woman, who
was believed to be unconscious.
Rescue workers discovered the
woman was dead.
“It is apparent from the condi
tion that we found the victim in,
that this is a homicide," Muldoon
said.
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‘Rocket’ blasts off from Canada en route for Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Raghib
“Rocket” Ismail and the Los An
geles Raiders have agreed on a
two-year contract that will bring
the former Notre Dame star to the
NFL team, Ismail’s attorney Bob
Woolf said Monday.
Woolf said he expects a con
tract will be signed in the next few
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days. But it is not known if Ismail,
who played with the Toronto Ar
gonauts of the CFL for two years,
will be activated by the Raiders
before their opener Sunday against
Minnesota.
Financial terms were not dis
closed, but sources reported Ismail
would receive about $3 million for
the two years.
Ismail completed two years of
the four-year, $18.2 million deal
he signed with the Argonauts and
owner Bruce McNall, who gave
his permission for the receiver
kick returner to negotiate with the
Raiders last March.
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Emily headed to Carolinas
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Up to
100,000 people on North Carolina’s
barrier islands were ordered to evac
uate on Monday as Hurricane Emily
twisted on a path toward the south
eastern United States.
While beachgoers enjoyed rela
tively calm seas, forecasters warned
waves would begin to build all along
the East Coast. Gale force winds also
could reach North Carolina shores by
early Tuesday.
The state of emergency in Dare
County covers communities stretch
ing along the Outer Banks, a loop of
fragile islands off North Carolina’s
coast.
“Nobody’s going to be arrested for
not leaving, but they’re probably go
ing to be asked for their next of kin,”
said county spokesman Ray Sturza.
National Park Service camp
gounds at Cape Point and Frisco on
atteras Island also were to be evac
uated, officials said.
The National Hurricane Center
declared a hurricane watch Sunday
from Cape Romain, S.C.—about 20
miles north of Charleston, S.C. — to
Fenwick Island on the Delaware
Maryland border.
A watch means hurricane condi
tions pose a threat. A warning means
hurricane conditions are expected
within 24 hours.
The storm’s maximum sustained
winds were near 85 mph on Monday,
rhey were expected to increase “a
ittle” over the next 24 hours, fore
ster Lixion Avila of the National
Hurricane Center said.
On Monday, the center of the storm
was about 375 miles to the southeast
)f Cape Hatteras, moving toward the
lorthwest near 9 mph. It was not
projected to make landfall until some
;ime Tuesday.
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Nobody's going to be
arrested for not leav
ing, but they're proba
bly going to be asked
for their next of kin.
— Sturza, Dare County,
N.C. spokesman
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Hurricane Hugo, which killed 29
people and caused $5.9 bill ion in dam
age when it hit South Carolina in
September 1989 with winds of 135
mph, was on the minds of many of
those watching Emily’s progress.
“Everybody is preparing earlier
this time,” said Karen Eyerly, who
works at a surf shop in Myrtle Beach,
S.C. “I’m stocking up on food and
water and just making sure I have
supplies.”
Others were taking a wait-and-see
attitude.
“If we’re talking about 85 mph
winds, there will be*some damage.
But it will be nothing like Hugo or
Hazel,” said Robert Canady, a shop
per at a Wilmington discount store.
Hurricane Hazel came through in
1954.
About three-quarters of the esti
mated 100,000 people in the county
are tourists, Sturza said.
The Federal Emergency Manage
ment Agency sent several trucks with
supplies Sunday from Miami to
Thomasville, Ga. They will be dis
patched when it’s clear which areas
are most affected by the storm, said
FEMA spokesman Morrie Goodman.
Jackson cancels another concert;
SINGAPORE — The groans and
:atcalis grew among Michael Jack
son fans as the announcement rang
across the packed stadium Monday:
The performer is ill and the show is
off.
Jackson was back in seclusion,
leaving fans with rain checks and
questions about the condition of the
35-year-old singer.
For the third time, Jackson, report
edly suffering from an acute head
ache and vomiting, canceled a perfor
mance on a world tour dogged by
allegations of child molestation. He
has appeared twice in Thailand and
once in Singapore.
More than 40,000 angry fans who
filled Singapore’s open-air National
Stadium were told to come back for a
concert on Wednesday or ask for a
refund.
“He was well this afternoon, but as
we went to the stadium he slowly
developed this acute headache or mi
graine,” Dr. David Forecast told re
porters.
The doctor said Jackson was dizzy
and vomiting, and was in the care of
a neurologist. A spokesman for the
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/ am very disappoint
ed; fcuf we can expect
this from show busi
ness people.
—Kodhary, Singapore
concert goer
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promoters said Jackson fainted back
stage.
Dch yd ra t ion from heat and humid
ity was blamed for the two postpone
ments in Thailand. His publicists in
sisted the concerts were not called off
because of allegations that he had
sexually abused a 13-year-old Los
Angeles area boy.
After Jackson was taken back to
his suite, about 20 fans kept a vigil
below the window of his third-floor
suite.
But not all of Jackson’s fans were
as supportive.
“1 am very disappointed, but we
can expect this from show business
people,” said spectator Parag Kodhary
of Singapore.
Telephone wires to replace lines at drop/add
System should be
on-line by spring
By Chris Hsln
Start Raoortar
It won’t be long until the only lines
at drop/add are connected to the
phones, an official said.
Campus Computing Coordinator
Donna Liss said the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s touch-tone reg
istration system should be on-line this
spring.
The system, which includes touch
tone registration, is designed to im
prove service to students in the areas
of advising, billing, financial aid and
registration, Liss said.
“We’re following up now on our
part of the bargain, which was to get
the system up as quickly as we could,”
Liss said.
“And the first thing we’re doing is
bringing up the touch-tone registra
tion, sne said.
Liss, who is in charge of imple
menting the system, said the touch
tone registration initially will be used
for class registration and listings, drop/
add and course availability listings.
Earl W. Hawkey, director of Reg
istration and Records, said he hoped
the system would be ready for testing
in January.
“Maybe I can pull some people out
of drop and add, and say ’Come on
over, we want you to try this,”’
Hawkey said. “It’s really a question
of whether we can make that dead
line,” he said.
“People should be using it next fall
for drop and add and registration, ” he
said.
Hawkey worked with a similar
system when he was at the University
of Washington at Seattle. Based on
his experience with touch-tone regis
tration there, he said the system would
be advantageous for students.
The most noticeable improvement
will be a more convenient drop/add
system, Hawkey said.
The system would eliminate the
long delay between pre-registering
for classes and getting an actual class
schedule, he said.
“I’ve never been able to figure out
how people are able to do that,”
Hawkey said. “(Now) you will set
confirmed immediately yes or no.
The Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska approved a
tuition increase last spring to provide
funds for the development of a com
prehensive student information sys
tem.
Liss said the initial cost for the
system’sequipment and software was
about $350,000.
But she said that figure was not
entirely accurate because the system
would have to be designed almost
from scratch to fit UNL’s individual
needs.
“People will say for $350,000 this
thing should work — I wish it were
that simple,” Liss said. “We’ll be
spending a lot more money to make it
work.”
To spread the word about the sys
tem, Liss said the university would be
mailing out information. A contest is
being neld to find a name for the
system, she said.
The contest is open to any UNL
student, and the winner will receive a
cordless telephone, a backpack lull of
school supplies and other items. The
winner also will be the first person to
register on the new system.
The entries must be returned to one
of the designated drop boxes at the
East orCity Campus Unions by 5 p.m.
Sept. 15.