By The Associated Press Edited by Kristine Long news digest Nebraskan Monday, April 4, 1994 Parishoners’ faith survives storm + + „ » , PIEDMONI, Ala. — 1 hirtecn ycar-old Marcus Woods fidgeted in his wheelchair and shivered in the predawn chill. He had insisted on attending Easter sunrise service at the church where he lost half his family a week earlier. “1 just wanted to be here,” he said softly. His father. Buddy, and 9-year-old sister, Amy, were among 20 people killed when a tornado leveled the Goshen United Methodist Church during Palm Sunday services last week. Marcus, who tried to pull his little sister out of the rubble, suffered a badly bruised right knee. His mother is still hospitalized in intensive care; she suffered a crushed pelvis and bro ken legs. As much as a celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, Sunday's half hour service was an emotional re union of tears and lengthy hugs. About 200 people attended, sitting on foldingchairs in the parking lot of the ruined church. The Rev. Kelly Clem greeted pa rishioners. some for the first time since the tornado. Mrs. Clem’s dress was dark red, her lace collar white and her forehead and eyes purple and crim son. I feel like we re like a symbol of hope right now. — Rev. Clem, Methodist minister -99 ~ Battered by whirling bricks, the 34-year-old pastor lost her 4-year-old daughter. Hannah, one ol'six children killed while waiting to participate in an Easier program. Friends and relatives took turns hugging her and her 2-year-old girl, Sarah. “There’s no place I’d rather be today,” Mrs. Clem said. . “We kind of need each other,” add ed her husband, the Rev. Dale Clem. Mrs. Clem read from the New Tes tament Book of Romans and chatted over a microphone with small chil dren. She presented the children with wrapped Easier baskets, among the many donations of money, supplies and children’s gifts that have streamed in from around the country. “Do you know how many people love you?” she asked. r\ iui. w*«w “That’s an understatement,” Mrs. Clem replied. The wooden cross behind her pul pit was made last week by a friend she hadn’t seen in years, she said, and four new stained glass windows that made a backdrop were sent by a Roman Catholic church. A painting of Jesus, (lowers and stacks of cards and letters also have arrived. “I feel like we’re like a symbol of hope right now, Mrs. C lem said af terward". She pledged to rebuild the northeastern Alabama church, the hardest-hit site in the series ol torna does and storms that killed at least 44 people across the Southeast. For parishioners, the service was a confrontation with traumatic memo ries. Carol Scroggin, the choir director who had just led a hymn when the tornado hit, said the Easier service selections were chosen carefully from congregation members’ requests. “Because He lives. Lean face to morrow,” was one refrain. A soloist sang: “We are standing on holyground. And I know that there are angels all around.” And all sang: “Bind us together. Lord ... Bind us together with love.” Street fighters protest Israel negotiations JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP. Occupied Ga/a Strip — The gunman from PLO leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction punctuated every sen tence with a pistol shot after he seized the microphone. “We warn our leaders to slop the negotiations with Israel." he yelled at a weekend rally, the largest since the Israel-PLO autonomy accord was signed in September. Thousands of young men in jeans and battered jackets roared in approv al.but the PLOeldcrs sitting injackels and lies sal motionless. Tension between street fighters and officially appointed PLO leaders is intensifying, and Gazans expect rela tions It) worsen with the arrival this week of the first PLO police and administrators from outside the occu pied lands. Whether Arafat can control this internal competition will determine the success of Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho, and ultimately whether the Palestinians can achieve their own state. About 50 deportees, including some of Arafat’s lop advisers, are due by Wednesday to help prepare the take over from Israel. A vanguard of 300 Palestinian police are expected m the Gaza Strip and Jericho by Thursday, also to lay the groundwork for the arrival of thousands more. Friday’s rally underscored a key problem the Palestine Liberation Or ganization faces in taking over. While publicly it must make peace with Isra el, popular sentiment is clearly on the side of continuing the Fight. Events that have sapped support for peace include the Feb. 25 mosque massacre in Hebron, when a settler killed 30 Muslim worshippers and the killings last week of six Fatah mem bers by undercover Israeli soldiers. PLO leaders shrugged off the calls for fighting. “This is the Palestinian street. It deals with feelings and emo tions more than actual events,” spokes man Sufian Abu Zayda said. But rank-and-file membersof Fatah said the leadership was having diffi cultycontrollingarmed fighters in the Fatah Hawks, with gunman taking pot shots at Fatah branch offices both in ihe (ia/a Strip and the West Bank. The street fighters, many in their 20s, were the ones who fought the occupation and built underground or ganizations. They resent being driven out by PLO appointees who don’t question orders from headquarters. Aralat is expected to announce this week whether he will close Fatah branch offices permanently. 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