Mideast peace pact
still faces difficulties
By Neil Feldman
Staff Reporter
With the Jewish New Year, Rosh
Hashana, just over and the Jews’ most
religious holiday, Yom Kippur, on
Saturday, Israeli leaders are enjoying
a short pause in the long road to peace.
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Washington between Israel and the
Palestine Liberation Organization was
“the beginning of developments” but
“things cannot be achieved in one fell
swoop.”
One of Israel’s primary objectives
now is to raise more than $1 billion to
back developments in the occupied
territories.
They expect Washington to assist
significantly the agreement on Pales
tinian autonomy by raising money
from Japan, Europe and the Gulf
states.
The accord between the Israelis
and Palestinians calls for autonomy to
be applied quickly in the West Bank
city of Jericho and the Gaza Strip.
However, several barriers must be
overcome there, including finding
heavy funding.
The World Bank estimated last
week that it would take $5.5 billion
over 10 years to improve basic servic
es in the region.
Many right-wing Israelis who have
been against the accord since its birth
remain pessimistic, asserting that such
a grandiose figure will never be
reached.
Echoing the notions of most Israeli
parliament members, Foreign Minis
ter Shimon Peres said last week in a
published interview that the accord
would not work “without an econom
ic component.”
Conditions in the occupied territo
ries are generally poor. The Jebalya
refugee camp in Gaza, for example, is
socially and economically in sham
bles, and the Palestinians are banking
on that area as one of many develop
ment project sites.
According to PLO sources, more
than 50,000 new apartments will be
needed in the next two years, and
Palestinians fear that circumstances
Actually could decline if this turns
into a “political episode,” as Peres put
it last week.
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Syria is shaping up to be the most
radical opponent, as the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine Gener
al Command, a large, influential
movement based in Damascus, Syria,
views the PLO as betrayers of the
people of Palestine.
Ahmed Jabril, leader of the PFLP
GC, said last week in a published
interview that his organization would
bolster military action against Israel.
He also said Arafat would not be
able to stop them, and that their polit
ical influence in the region was stron
ger than that of the PLO.
Both Israel and the PLO view
Jabril’s statement as preposterous.
Other radical organizations such
as Hamas and the Islamic Jihad also
have condemned the PLO and have
engaged in violence since the agree
ment was announced.
But most analysts and Middle East
experts, though cautious, do not see
such radicalism as a potential source
for steering the peace process off
course.
For, as Abba Eban, former Israeli
ambassador to the United States, said
last week, “no organization is strong
enough” to derail a process that has
“the full support of the United States,
Europe and Japan.”
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UNL student Abbas All was held in a Croatian detention center this summer after providing
food and medical relief to Bosnians for nine months. Ali is now spreading the word of
Bosnians who remain in prison.
Bosnia
Continued from Page 1
“The most important thing was,
all the Bosnians remained strong,”
he said.
As their days of captivity
dragged on, Ali and Ahmer were
not allowed to speak and often
u/prp starvpH
“It was bad,” Ali said. “For four
days there was nothing to eat or
drink.”
Prayer was the main source of
activity in the prison, Ali said, and
it kept the inmates’ minds off of
their capture. On the 18th day of
captivity, Ali and Ahmer were tak
en from the prison to a detention
center in Mostar, Bosnia, and even
tually were released.
Ali said Arshad Syed of Lincoln
helped arrange their release.
Syed, information systems man
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don't have food. How
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ager for the UNL College of Busi
ness Administration, said many
international agencies played apart
in the release.
Syedorganized the reliefeflorts
through the Lincoln-based Al-Nasir
International Organization. Fund
ing for the venture came from pri
vate contributions.
After their release, Ahmer re
turned to his Pakistan home to re
cover from the ordeal, but Ali im
mediately returned to Croatia to
take more food and supplies to
Bosnia.
Ali’s home in Croatia was out
side Split. It was raided by police
five times, but that didn’t deter
him, he said.
“Those 25,000 people don’t
have food. How can I just clean my
hands and go away?” Ali said.
Ali said Americans needed to
donate more money to Bosnian re
lief efforts instead of spending it on
frivolous things.
“We’re wasting so much money
on fairs, football games...when
there are people dying,” Ali said.
Ali continues to spread the word
and message of Bosnians still in
prison, hoping one day they, too,
will be released.
“They were very brave people,”
he said. “Every word counts. This
is my responsibility.”
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ASUN senators go to students for more input
By Becky Becner
Staff Reporter
The Association of Studentsof the
University of Nebraska’s senators are
finding new ways to get students’
opinions.
ASUN senators
have had monthly
constituent meet
ings so students
can speak to the
senate representa
tive from their
college.
But Brian
Kubik, speaker of the senate, said low
attendance at the constituent meet
ings have prompted senators to get
student input elsewhere.
Kubik said few students went to
constituent meetings, and he hoped
that by attending student organization
meetings, senators would be more
effective at telling students about
ASUN and at listening to students’
concerns.
Kubik said while visitina student
organizations, senators would survey
members’ opinions about their col
lege, the university in general and
ASUN.
“The goal of the survey is to get a
better blanket of student opinion,”
Kubik said.
Kubik said the new system was
being used on a trial basis. He said
ASUN would still hold constituent
meetings, but if the new system
worked well, the constituent meet
ings could be discontinued.
Kubik said senators were setting
up meeting times with student organi
zations. He said he hoped senators
would visit about half of the 315
official student organizations by the
end of the year.
ASUN meets at 6:30 tonight in the
Nebraska Union. Senators will dis
cuss setting up an open forum for
students to voice their views on Chan
cellor Graham Spanier’s proposal to
tum the parking lot north of the union
into a green space.
i-Police Report-: "> v l
Beginning midnight Tuesday
11:12 a.m. — Car accident, park
ing lot north of Hamilton Hall,
$400.
11:40 a.m. — Book bag stolen,
Nebraska Union, $45.
12:38 p.m. — Book bag stolen,
University Bookstore, $75.
1:15 p.m. — Tickets stolen,
Devaney Sports Center.
2:50 p.m. — Assault/misdemean
or, Harper Residence Hall.
5:27 p.m.—Windshield shattered,
21st and Vine streets, $300.
6:13 p.m. — Bike stolen, Scott
Engineering Center, $360 loss, $ 14
damage to lock.
6:53 p.m. — Wallet stolen, Cam
pus Rec Center, $25.
9:17 p.m. — Persons intoxicated,
taken to Detox, Nebraska Union.
9:19 p.m. — Punctured tire, 19th
and R streets, $100.
10:01 p.m.—Verbal disturbance,
Hamer Residence Hall.
10:18p.m.—Bikes tolen,N ebras
ka Union, $825.
Beginning midnight Wednesday
12:10 a.m.—Assault/misdemean
or, Centennial Mall.
9:21 a.m.—Cash stolen, Old fat her
Hall, $3.
9:91 a.m.—Bike stolen, Nebraska
Union, $300.
11:53 a.m.— Bike stolen, Harper
Residence Hallr$320.
2:42 p.m.—Book bag stolen, Ne
braska Bookstore, $80.
4:50 p.m. — Bike stolen, Avery
Hall, $650.
4:59 p.m. — Bike stolen, Abel
Residence Hall, $340.
8:12 p.m. — Wallet stolen, Cam
pus Rec Center, $12.
8:41 p.m. — Bike part stolen, Ne
braska Union, $69.
11:28 p.m. — Cash stolen, Cam
pus Rec Center, $30.
11:28 p.m. — Cash stolen, Cam
pus Rec Center, $100.
Beginning midnight Thursday
1:57 a.m.—Auto accessories sto
len, parking lot 19th and R streets,
$2,350, recovered, case cleared with
one arrest.
10:01 a.m. — Log taken, Burr
Residence Hall, $5.
10:48 a.m. — Bike stolen, Abel
Residence Hall, $135.
10:58 a.m. — Purse stolen,
Hamilton Hall, $147.
12:08 p.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, area 10 loop. $25.
2:43 p.m. — Wallet and contents
stolen, Selleck Quadrangle, $24.
3:33 p.m. — Larceny from auto.
Sandoz Residence Hall,$ 100 dam
age, $50 loss.
4:26 p.m.—Bike stolen, Andrews
Hall, $800.
9:11 p.m.—No damage accident,
Harper-Schramm-Smith.
Beginning midnight Friday
2:23 a.m. — Assault/misdemean
or, 16th and S streets.
4:29 p.m. — Larceny from auto,
parking lot, 17th and Holdredge
streets, $189 loss, $80 damage.
6:16 p.m. — Bike seat stolen, Ar
chitecture Hall, $65.
7:23 p.m. — Two-vehicle, non
injury accident, Harper-Schramm
Smith, $50.
Beginning midnight Saturday
3:54 a.m.—Injury/sickness, Abel
Residence Hall, medical assistance
refused.
3:09 p.m. — Vehicle keyed, 17th
and R streets, $500.
3:10 p.m. — Forgery, checks tak
en, Harper Residence Hall.
6:03 p.m. — Vehicle keyed, 17th
and R streets, $250.