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By The Associated Press , Edited by Jeff Singer Mews Digest Neljraskan Friday, October 22,1993 Assassination kills senior figure of PLO GAZA CITY, Occupied Gaza Strip —A leading PLO moderate and long time friend of Yasser Arafat was shot dead in front of his 12-year-old son Thursday, sharply escalating the in fighting that followed the Israel-PLO accord. Assad Saftawi, 58, was one of the founders of Fatah, Arafat’s main fac tion of the PLO, and the third man from the group shot to death since the PLO and Israel signed a Palestinian autonomy agreement on Sept. 13. Saftawi served as an intermediary among Israel, Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization before the accord was signed. In April, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin spent 20 min utes at Saftawi’s house, stopping to drink tea. The visit was broadcast on Israeli television. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assassination. From the moment the autonomy accord was signed inWashington there have been fears that internal struggles within the Palestinian community could unravel plans to start transfer ring authority to the PLO starting Dec. 13. “We are really worried about it,” Rabin said of that turmoil after hear ing of the assassination. He spoke at an Israeli army camp in the Gaza Strip after touring the Khan Younis refugee camp. An internal struggle erupted inside Fatah over which faction would gain power once the PLO takes over the Gaza Strip. Younger leaders were summoned to Tunis this month for talks in an effort to stop the killings. There has also been tension from more radical elements within the PLO and Islamic militants opposed to the accord. But the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, issued a state ment condemning the killing. “We in Hamas strongly condemn these physical liquidations. We are against political assassinations as a language of dialogue among Palestin ians,” said a leaflet faxed to The As sociated Press. Mohammed Abu Shaaban, an at torney, was shot dead on Sept. 21, and his assistant, Maher Ikhail, was killed last week. They had formed a group called Fatah Vanguards that orga nized mass rallies to support the peace agreement and was gaining influence. Underground activists saw them as a threat to their control. Saftawi, the headmaster of a Unit ed Nations school in Shaati refugee camp, was shot in the head while ViYi?-imV'T-•■gffiJL AP sitting in his car waiting for his son to emerge from school. “I was trying to get into my father’s car when three masked men ap proached the car,” said the son, Ali. The boy, still shaking with few, said he saw the first bullet strike his father in the eye. He said his father then turned, and was shot again in the mouth and neck. Bush says he s adjusting to new lije WASHINGTON—George Bush, whose presidency may be best re membered for leading the Gulf War liberation of Kuwait, says he’s enjoy ing his own liberation these days. “I can now re lax and enjoy a relaxing hour playing wm holes " of golf,” said the man known forcharg ing through a round of golf as if a hurricane were about to strike. “One thing has changed though. Now everybody beats me on the golf course,” he said with a chuckle of an ex-president who seemingly doesn’t miss the privileges of power. He joked about coming face to face with this new reality at the bar bershop the other day. “I was sitting there getting shorn, and two little kids were looking around the corner of the barbershop, he said in a partly humorous, partly serious speech at an Army booster group ban quet where he was honored for his public service. “And they were staring at me as they peeked around the comer, and one said, ‘No, no, no it’s not.’ And the other says, ‘Yes, it is. I’m sure it’s him. You can tell by the wrinkles.’” Bush shook his head in mock in dignation. “How quickly they for get.” Bush said he’s adjusting to life after the White House, but his wife, Barbara, is having a harder time. He recalled his appearance at the White House last month for the signing cer emony for the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord and to speak out in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It was his first time back in the White House since Inaugura tion Day. “It was a little tense,” he said. “Bar didn’t even want to go, and she didn ’ t. You know her. She wasn’t quite ready” for the encounter with the new occu pants. “1 went and I’m proud I went, ami our president was extraordinarily gra cious.” Bush said he and Barbara moved into a new house in Houston earlier this week. “We got a neat house there. Bar bara’s doing the heavy lifting and I’m up here having a good time, he said to a burst of laughter. “So every -44 How quickly they forget. — former President Bush ¥ ¥ thing’s going fine.” Bush made no comments on Pres ident Cl inton’s policies. He did reiter ate his familiar view that America must not relinquish the role of world leader,but he did not link that position to the current issues of U.S. interven tion in Somalia, Haiti or Bosnia. ‘‘Now, more than ever, it is our responsibility, our destiny to lead,” Bush said in accepting the George C. Marshall Medal from the Association of the United States Army. While he held back on any critique of the Clinton record. Bush took sev eral potshots at one of his favorite targets as president, the news media. “1 don’t miss Washington,” Bush said. “1 don’t miss the politics. I damn sure don’t miss the press.” After a long cheer from his audience of main ly military people. Bush added: “I’m not running for a darned thing, so i don’t care what they think about that. It’s wonderful to be liberated, at last.” Abduction highlights latest Haitian violence PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Gun men reportedly grabbed a legislative ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, send ing another chilling message Thurs day to supporters of the U.N. effort to bring the exiled president back to power. Samuel Milord, a National Assem bly deputy whose family said he was dragged from a house late Wednes day, had only recently come out of hiding since denouncing leaders of the bloody coup that ousted Aristide two years ago. His seizure followed the assassina tions of pro-Aristide businessman Antoine Izmery on Sept. 11 and Jus tice Minister Guy Mai ary a week ago. Malary was part of the interim gov ernment appointed by Aristide, Hai ti’s first freely elected president, un der a U.N. plan for restoring democ racy. Although the army commander Raoul Cedras signed the plan in July, increasing violence and threats by army-backed civilian gangs have de railed the timetable for implementing the plan and rebuilding this impover ished nation. A U.N. embargo on fuel and weap ons shipments was reimposed Tues day to pressure Haiti’s military lead ers to live up to the accord for return ing Aristide to office Oct. 30. Lines of cars formed at gas stations in the capital and along the highway to Leogane, 25 miles to the southwest. Prime Minister Robert Malval’s government said he had received a statement from fuel distributors say ing they would respect the U.N. sanc tions. Parliament has been Hying to draft laws to implement provisions of the U.N. democracy plan. Many soldiers and rightists oppose the plan’s re quirement for the army to give up control of the police and for Cedras to step down. Two weeks ago, Milord told The Associated Press he was on a “death list” circulated among army-allied civilian gangs. Family members told local radio that gunmen burst into a home in which he was staying in the capital’s Debussy section and took him away. Shots were reported in the neighbor hood Wednesday night. An official with Milord’s pro Aristide coalition, the National Front forChangeand Democracy,confirmed the informations. The government was checking into the report. Milord, a civil engineer, was one of the first lawmakers to publicly denounce the Sept. 30, 1991, coup, and refused to take part in parliament sessions in which lawmakers were forced at gunpoint to declare the pres idency vacant. He went into hiding after the coup and just recently emerged in public. Houses of two relatives were attacked by army-backed gangs in his native Desdune area of the north-central Artibonite Valley. Milord and Fignole Jean-Louis, both deputies in Haiti’s lower house, told the AP about the “hit list.” Jcan Louis said he learned of the list from a contact in the military. The United Nations has accused the gangs of targeting Aristide sup porters for violence. Malval has blamed army supporters of his justice minister’s murder. The United States demanded Wednesday that the Haitian military disarm the gangs as one of the condi tions for lifting the U.N. embargo. Washington also said military leaders must request a return of the U.N. mission that was chased out by the violence terrorizing the capital. President Clinton won a fight in Washington over sending U.S. troops to Haiti when the Senate refused Thursday to limit his authority to do so. The Senate endorsed a compro mise that says Clinton should seek approval from lawmakers before com mitting troops but is not required todo so. The U.S. Embassy’s spokesman. Stanley Schragcr, insisted Thursday that the goal oforinging back Aristide on Oct. 30 “is not year dead.” He conceded, however, that “the diffi culty increases the closer we get to that” Parents charged with cruelty HILLSBORO, 111. — A couple was jailed on cruelly charges after authorities accused them of spend ing 14 hours in a tavern with their baby the day after he was born. Harold Jackson, 57, and Linda Ryon, 40, of Litchfield were charged with one count each of cruelty to children. They were ar rested and remained in the Mont gomery County iail Thursday. Bond was set at $ 10,000 each. The child, Sammy Jackson, died of natural causes a month after he was bom Feb. 11. Assistant State’s Attorney Tom Nevins said the cru elty charges do not stem from the death but from what happened at the bar Feb. 12. After mother and son were re leased from the hospital that morn ing, they went with Jackson to the barroom at the Veterans of Foreign Wars club in Litchfield, Nevins said. Sammy wore only a jumper sup plied by the hospital and had no Nevins said. •Cold War Continued from Page 1 itary before coming to UNL. Andrew Ringgold, a senior inter national affairs major, served in tire Air Force for eight years- He was stationed in Germany for four of those years working in the intelligence wing. Ringgoldrs partner, Nicholas Tay lor, who plays Powell, was in the British Royal Air Force before com ing to UNL. The two have developed a debating strategy. ' “We kind of play good cop/bad cop,” said Ringgold, who plays Dick Cheney. MI get nasty, and he comes in } real nice. Ringgold said his military experi ence gave him insight into top-secret information, but that he could not tell all that he knew. Thao Vo, a senior international business major, lived in Vietnam for 11 years. She said sire lived under a communist system and that the Amer ican view of communism was flawed. “1 think there are a lot of miscon ceptions that Americans have toward a communis! system,” Vo said. Vo, who plays another U.S. jour nalist, said Soviet communism was different from Chinese or Vietnam ese communism. She said smaller scale competition was allowed in Viet nam. Anna Dvorkina, an exchange stu dent from St. Petersburg, Russia, is not officially a part of the class, but attends to learn about the Cold War and America. “In our country, newspapers that publish information go from one ex treme to another,” Dvorkina said. “They used to say capitalism is evil and communism is paradise, and now they say the otter. Dvorkina said the class tried to find what the real governments did not — the “golden middle.” But that doesn’t mean the teams don’t employ some behind the scenes activities. Rezac said: “We also take part in subversion and espionage activities outside of class. We go to the ex tremes of trying to get people on the KGB payroll.” Sweater sale to benefit MASA, Bolivians From Stall Reports UNL’s Mexican-American Student Association is helping sponsor a sweat er sale by Inty Rupay, which is a Bolivian Co-op- The sale will contin ue through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Broyhill Plaza. Mario Andrade, Inty Rupay’s pro duction and distribut ion manager, said the sweaters — which are made of wool from llamas and alpacas—were being sold to students at discount prices. “We give students a service be cause we will sell the sweaters to them for a very good price,” Andrade said. Andrade said profits from the sales would be channeled directly back to the 3S0 people in the co-op. “Being a co-op makes a difference because we are helping more people," he said. Aside from sponsoring MAS A and other Latino student organizations on various college campuses, the Boliv ian government also helps sponsor Inty Rupay to benefit the co-op peo ple, Andrade said. “The Bolivian government spon sors the co-op to try to give the people a good opportunity in life to live and not be into drugs, Andrade said Due to its partial sponsorship of the sale, MASA will receive a per centage of the profits that is not re turned to the co-op. Nebraskan FAX NUMBER 472-1761 _~P?* P^*y N«bfaik«n<U8PS 14A-0e0|l« pubSthed by the UNL PiXXtotteyMi Board, Nebraska Unton 34,1400 R 8t.. Unooto, NE, Monday through Friday during the academic year, weekly during summer session a. *!«*«^ *> ettomit story ideeaand comment, to the DaHy Nebraskan by phoning 472-1783 batwaan 8 a.m. and B pm. Monday through Friday. Tha public also has aooass to tha PubNeattons Board. For Information, contact Doug Fiedtor, 438-78#? 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