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Associated Press MpWQ DlGEST Nebmskan Edited by Kristine Long J_ ^ JL/ WO -L-ALVJ A_/ k/ A Thursd.,. April i«, ism Bomb threatens peace accord HADERA, Israel — A suicide bomb claimed by Islamic oppo nents of Isracl-Palestinian peace talks ripped through a bus jammed with sold iers and civil ians Wednes day, killing six people and wound ing 28. Senior officials warned that two such attacks in a week could mean the start of a gruesome pattern that would be difficult to combat. Mili tant Islamic groups vowed they would carry out at least three more suicide bombings as revenge for the Feb. 25 Hebron mosque massa cre. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sent more troops to seal off the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where authoritiesbelievc the bomb was constructed, but said he would continue with peace talks even in the face of future attacks. The morning explosion at the central bus station in this coastal city midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa reverberated across the coun try at the start of an extended holi day weekend, when Israel first mourns its 17,955 war dead on Remembrance Day and then cel ebrates its 1948 creation on Inde pendence Day. Police said they suspect a West Bank Palestinian either rigged the explosives to his body or carried them in a bag and ignited them after climbing in the back door of the public bus, which stops repeat edlyon i ts route from Tiberias across the country to Tel Aviv. A second bomb left on a bench outside the bus was timed to go off at 11 a.m., when sirens sounded nationwide for two minutes in memory of the war dead and virtu ally everyone stands at attention. It was e xploded harm lessl y by pol ice. The Islamic Resistance Move ment, or Hamas, claimed responsi bility for the attack, saying it was to avenge the deaths of30 Palestinian worshipers killed by a Jewish set tler at the mosque in Hebron. Mohammed Nazzal, the Hamas representative in Jordan, said the group’s military wing, IzzeddinAl Qassam Brigades, was responsible and had vowed a total of five at tacks to avenge the mosque massa cre. PLO leader Yasser Arafat con demned Wednesday’s attack. “These attacks target only the inno cents on both sides, Israelis and Palestinians, and serve only to hit at the heart of the peace process,” Arafat said in Strasbourg, France. Israel has closed its borders to all 1.8 million Palestinians in the occupied territories. But Rabin noted that a complete seal was not possible given that 10,000 Israeli registered cars, many belonging to settlers, cross the line daily. Right-wing opposition leaders called for annulling the Sept. 13 peace agreement with the PLO and for Rabin to resign. Clinton defends his Whitewater reactions WASHINGTON — President Clinton heatedly defended his han dling of the Wh itewater affai r Wednes day, telling newspapereditors,“I have done my best to answer the questions asked of me. “Maybe you have total and com plete recollection of every question that might be asked of you at any moment of things that happened 12, 13, 14 years ago,” he told a ques tioner. “You think I should have shut the whole federal government down and s tud icd t hese th i ngs full time?” Clin ton asked. He was talking about the tax and other records involving his and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s in vestment in the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas. The president’s sharp words came after an editor suggested that his ex planations so far of Whitewater-re lated matters reminded him of a daughter’s excuses for not doing her homework. “All 1 can tell you, sir, is 1 have done my best to answer the questions asked of me,” Clinton responded to John Simpson, international editor of USA Today. The president complained that he had supported creation of a special Whitewater counsel so that all details of the affair could be investigated, and he could get on with his job as presi dent. “Since then, the same people who have asked for the special counsel ... have decided they were kidding and they wanted for us to continue to deal with this. “Well, I'm sorry but I’m doing the best I can doing the job 1 was hired by the American people to do,” he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Clinton was invited by another questioner to assess the news media’s coverage of his administration and of the Whitewater affair, but declined to do so. “If 1 could grade the press, I wouldn’t,” he said. As to Whitewater, he said, “If you have any doubts about it, then that’s good because you ought to be having doubts about things like this.” Tobacco industry unveils list of secret ingredients WASHINGTON—Under intense pressure from Congress, the nation’s biggest tobacco companies released a top-secret list of chemicals in ciga rettes Wednesday. “We really don’t know the health effects of smoking a cigarette with a very specific quantity of chemicals added in a specific combination,” said Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. “It’s disingenuous at best to con tend the absence or presence of cer tain chemicals means that cigarettes are safe,” said VictorZonana, spokes man for the Department of Heal th and Human Services. “We’ve been misunderstood, mis represented and we want the Ameri can public to know there is not any misrepresentation,” said Dr. Robert Suber, a toxicologist for R J. Reynolds, which spearheaded the unveiling. “We decided the noise level got to the point where we had to put those concerns about trade secrets aside.” added Reynolds spokesman David Fkrhrl The release came one day before a congressional hearing on the content of cigarettes and whether the Food and Drug Administration should regu late them as drugs. The key to FDA’s decision is prov ing whether cigarette companies ma nipulate nicotine levels. On Wednesday’s list of additives was to bacco extract, which contains a small amount of nicotine. Suber contended the amount was too tiny tojustify FDA action. Also Wednesday, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif, released a 1981 article written by a tobacco executive stating that companies specially blend tobacco to maintain high nicotine while reducing tar. The executive, Alexander Spears of Lorillard To baccoCo., last month testified before Waxman’s health subcommittee that companies don’t do that, saying nico tine levels naturally drop when tar drops. Tobacco is the biggest ingredient in c igarettes, and scien tists have shown that tobacco itself and chemicals in cigarette smoke are lethal. The gov ernment estimates that 400,000 Americans die from cigarettes every year. There is growing uproar over a federal law that makes companies list for the government the more than 700 additives that go intodifTerent brands. The law forces that list to be kept secret under penalty of jail. The list released Wednesday con tained 599 additives used by domestic cigarette companies. Foreign compa nies used an additional 100 chemi cals, which remain secret. 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