News Digest
Thursday, October 20,1994 Page 2
Terrorists sought by Arabs and Israelis
TEL AVIV, Israel — The terror at -
the edges of the quest for Middle East
peace exploded Wednesday when a 1
bomb on a crowded city bus killed 22 J
people and turned a bustling street I
into a scene
from a slaugh
terhouse.
The attack
wounded 48
people. Police
blamed it on a
suicide bomber.
Shouts of
“Death to the
Arabs!" were
heard from bystanders on the seaside
city’s main throughfare as severed
arms and legs were gathered for
burial, some from on top of four-story
buildings.
“It will end. It has to end. We will
tear them to bits,” said President Ezcr
Weizman. who called for “extraordi
nary action” to root out Islamic ex
tremists.
Police suspected a West Bank fu
gitive known as “The Engineer” of
planning the attack, according to Is
raeli news reports.
The attack sparked anti-govern
ment protests around the country and
gave Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
little choice but to retaliate against
extremist groups who oppose Israel
\rab peace-making.
In a television address, Rabin said
le would seek legislative backing for
1 wide-ranging crackdown on the
undamentalists, while at the same
ime pressing ahead in peace talks
vith the Palestine Liberation Orga
lization.
He stressed the need for a final
political settlement that will divorce
Israelis from the Palestinians of West
Sank and Gaza Strip.
“We need a separation between us
ind the Palestinians, not just for days
jut as a way of life,” Rabin said.
President Clinton said he still
vould attend the peace agreement
:eremony on the Israel-Jordan bor
der next week.
Israel Radio said security would
t>e tightened for Clinton’s visit.
“It's like Russian roulette living
in this country,” said Ronny Levy.
‘Every day someone else gets killed.”
Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and
West Bank after the mid-morning
blast, claimed by the radical Islamic
group Hamas in a statement read in
Gaza mosques.
Officials indicated Israel might
respond with an unprecedented blow
against Hamas’ armed wing,
Izzcdinc al-Qassam.
Rabin cut short a trip to London,
rushing back to consult with secu
rity officials and Cabinet ministers.
Dozens of demonstrators outside his
Defense Ministry office greeted him
with chants of “Rabin Resign.”
Angry demonstrators also gath
ered at Dizengoff Square near the
scene of the blast, in Jerusalem and
throughout the country.
The attack came as Israeli and PLO
officials sat down in Cairo, Egypt, to
talk about expanding the 5-inonth-old
Gaza-Jericho autonomy to the rest of
the West Bank. The talks broke off
early Wednesday because of the blast.
PLO leader Yassar Arafat said the
Palestinians are “fully cooperating
with the Israeli government to search
and arrest the perpetrators.” There
were no reports of arrests by Arafat’s
police in Gaza.
“Pushing forward with the peace
process .. is the only way to respond
to the enemies of peace who are get
ting their support, their training and
financing from well-known outside
parties,” Arafat said, alluding to
Iran’s fundamentalist government.
A suspect in planning the bomb
ing reportedly was Yehia Ayash, nick
named “The Engineer,” from the
West Bank village of Rafat.
Ayash is a fugitive wanted for in
volvement in three earlier bombings,
including suicide attacks this year in
the northern Israeli towns of Hadcra
and Afula.
Israel maintains the PLO has done
too little to rein in Islamic groups that
have shaken the fragile reconciliation
declared in the Sept. 13, 1993, au
tonomy pact. Arafat supporters say
they want to avoid civil war in the
autonomous areas.
Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the
right-wing Likud, said such policies
had opened the doors for terrorists to
attack the heart of Israel from their
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Judge asks for publicity delay
LOS ANGELES — Concerns
about pretrial publicity in the O.J.
Simpson case mushroomed
Wednesday as the judge asked
broadcasters to hold up interviews
with the author of a sensational
new book about Simpson’s ex-wife,
and defense lawyers asked that the
trial be delayed and Simpson freed
on bail.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito
denied the defense request, turn
ing aside arguments that the un
usual amount of publicity in the
ease required a delay and
Simpson's release on bail.
Earlier. Ito made public letters
asking three broadcasters to delay
interviews with Faye Rcsnick.
whose book, “Nicole Brown
Simpson: The Private Diary of a
Life Interrupted,” alleges that
Simpson stalked his ex-wife and
threatened to kill her if she slept
with another man.
CNN agreed to delay broadcast
of its Larry King interview, but
CBS and Maury Povich said they
would go ahead with their inter
views as scheduled.
In arguing against the defense
motion for a trial delay and bail
for Simpson, Deputy*District At
torney Marcia Clark warned that
Simpson could flee.
Hamas: profile
of terror
The military wing of Hamas claimed
responsibility for Wednesday’s terrorist bomb
attack in central Tel Aviv. Last week, the group kidnapped
and murdered an Israeli soldier in the West Bank.
ft Hamas appeared for the first time In 1978, registering in Gaza as a
non-profit organization called the Mujam’a
ft It was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin after the start of the intifada,
or uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
ft Hamas’s ideology combines pan-Arab religious principles with
Palestinian nationalistic aims, contending that the soil of all Palestine is
a Wakf {Moslem holy property) that belongs to the Moslems forever.
ft The organization’s ultimate goal is the formation of one great
Islamic state.
ft Their most revered strategic goal is the liberation of all of Palestine
from the sea to the river.
AP
autonomous enclave in the Gaza
Strip.
Israeli authorities said they be
lieved a suicide bomber carrying up
to 44 pounds of explosives boarded
bus No. 5 as it headed up tree-lined
Dizengoff Street, the city’s main
shopping drag.
Around 9 a.m., as the bus ap
proached the cafe-lined central
stretch parallel to the beachfront, the
explosion ripped it apart. Shattered
glass and pieces of metal mixed with
pieces of flesh scattered in the street.
Members of Israel’s official reli
gious-run burial society labored for
hours to remove dozens of bags of
bodies and body parts from the scene.
Hospital sources said two of the
48 wounded were in critical condi
tion. Police said the 22 dead included
nearly all the people on the No. 5 bus.
Tel Aviv police commander Gabi
Last said dozens of Arabs were de
tained by police after the attack, in
part to help them avoid lynchings.
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