By The
Associated Press
Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky
NewsQgest
Tuesday, January 24,1995
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Israeli security’s hands freed
to deal with Islamic militants
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin gave Israeli intelli
gence a freer hand today to deal with
Islamic militants in the wake of a
double suicide bombing that killed 19
Israelis. Soldiers sealed off the West
Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Cabinet also froze the release
of Palestinian prisoners and delayed
the opening of a passage between the
autonomous Palestinian territories.
The moves stopped short, how
ever, of right-wing demands to halt
peace talks with the Palestine Libera
tion Organization. They were in
tended mainly to appease public an
ger over the escalating death toll from
bombings by Islamic militants, r
Sunday’s bombing of a crowded
transit stop for soldiers killed 19 Is
raelis and wounded 62.
Israelis, already shocked by the
carnage of scattered body parts and
bloody military kitbags from the
bombing, woke to newspapers edged
in black around the faces of the 19
victims. All but one of the dead and
most of wounded were soldiers under
age 25.
“The Children Who Won’t Re
turn,” tolled one headline.
Scores of Israelis lit memorial
candles today and prayed at the site of
the bombing at the Beit Lid junction
near Netanya, 18 miles northeast of
Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl
military cemetery, crowds wept at the
funerals of Staff Sgt. Yaron Blum,
20, and Cpl. Amir Hirschenson, 18.
“We won’t let these murderers re
joice over our sorrow and pain. We
will continue to walk with our heads
held high and go on and you will
always be with us,” Blum’s com
manding officer, unidentified accord
ing to army regulations, said in eu
logy.
The attack was claimed by Islamic
Jihad, in PLO-ruled Gaza, an ex
tremist movement opposed to the 1993
Israel-PLO accord. The suicide bomb
ers were identified as Salah Shakr,
25, from Rafah, and Anwar Sukar,
23, from Gaza City.
Israeli police arrested six protest
ers at a demonstration by about 300
people Sunday night in Jerusalem
where youths shouted, “Death to the
Arabs!”
Soldiers were deployed at road
blocks today to deny entry to an esti
mated 50,000 Palestinian workers
with jobs in Israel. Newspapers said
the closure could last 10 days.
Further measures were decided
today by a close circle of Rabin’s
security advisers. They extended a
“special dispensation” giving a freer
hand to agents of the Shin Bet secu
rity service to fight terrorism, Israel
radio said.
Both Rabin spokesman Oded Ben
Ami and the Cabinet Secretary’s of
fice refused to comment on the report.
Education Minister Amnon
Rubinstein said Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres planned to meet with
PLO leader Yasser Arafat and present
him “with the full consequences of
the security issue ... to remind him in
very strong terms that he is not fulfill
ing his obligations under the Oslo
accord.”
Cabinet ministers said Arafat was
neither extraditing suspected attack
ers nor punishing them. They also
complained that attackers were find
ing refuge in the PLO-run Gaza Strip
and West Bank town of Jericho,
“This is one of the issues that
needs to be clarified with Yasser
Arafat,” Housing Minister Benyamin
Ben-Eliezer said.
Although the measures the Cabi
net took Sunday were temporary, Pal
estinians suggested they could dis
rupt talks on expanding self-rule
throughout the West Bank.
“This actually means that extrem
ism on both sides is winning and this
is terrible for the peace process,” said
Hisham Abdel-Razek, head of the
Palestinian committee on prisoners.
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wounds about 60 in an attack claimed by
Islamic militants near a bus stop
crowded with Israeli soldiers.
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special unit deployed to guard bus
stops - especially on Sundays, when
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teen of the dead were soldiers.
Since Oct. 1,52 Israelis have been
killed in attacks, most of them claimed
by Islamic militants opposed to the
peace accord.
Demonstrators mark anniversary
of decision legalizing abortions
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of
people waving signs, white crosses
and red roses gathered in the shadow
of the White House Monday to protest
the 22nd anniversary of the Supreme
Court decision allowing abortion.
Activists on both sides of the issue
were holding rallies, prayer vigils
and demonstrations to mark the 1973
Roe vs. Wade ruling that legalized
abortion. The actual anniversary was
Sunday.
“And the Cock Crowed” was the
theme of the rally and march kicking
off from the Ellipse, behind the White
House. The reference is to Jesus’
warning that before the cock crowed,
St. Peter would deny knowing him
three times.
“What we see here is the denial
over and over again of the humanity
of the prebom’ child,” said Nellie
Gray, president of March For Life,
the group that organized the rally.
“I think what is happening is people
are beginning to understand that af
ter 22 years, the pro-life movement is
not going to go away, and this issue
will be resolved in favor of the life of
innocent human beings,” she said.
Monday’s rally kicked off with a
musical group singing “I’m a Yankee
Doodle Dandy” and “Dixie.” Dem
onstrators planned to march later to
the Supreme Court.
Earlier, the National Right to Life
Committee held a news conference to
condemn violence at abortion clinics.
“The pro-life movement opposes
violence,” said Wanda Franz, the
group’s president.
Also in Washington, David Crane,
Southeast director of the American
Coalition of Life Activists, based in
Legal abortion
Activists for and against abortion
rallied Monday to mark the
anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the
1973 ruling that legalized abortion.
Number of legal abortions In
the United States: 1973-1988:
AP
Portland, Ore., released a list of 12
abortion providers and said his group
was “encouraging peaceful methods
of exposure.”
About 50 abortion opponents
staged a candlelight vigil Sunday
night outside the suburban Maryland
home of an abortion provider. The
protest was peaceful, but at least four
of the protestors were identified by
National Abortion Federation spokes
woman Gina Shaw as signers of the
“Justifiable Homicide” decree, a pub
lic statement advocating the murder
of abortion providers.
Later, about five miles from the
vigil site law enforcement officers
stopped and searched a van carrying
three departing protestors. Authori
ties were looking for weapons based
on information received from anony
mous sources, according to an FBI
agent on the scene, but no weapons
were found and no arrests were made.
Gray of March for Life said she
hopes her group can work with the
new GOP-controlled Congress, but
added, “We’re disappointed that the
new Congress did not even put on the
agenda the human beings they are
supposed tb be protecting,” meaning
fetuses.
And she said she does not believe
that the anti-abortion movement has
been damaged by the recent spate of
shootings and other violence at
women’s clinics. “The violence that
is connected with intentional killing
... has unfortunately flowed over into
the streets, as would be expected,”
she said. ,
Four people were killed and six
wounded at shootings at abortion clin
ics last year in the United States and
Canada. In response, the Justice De
partment posted U. S. marshals at clin
ics around the country.
Across the country, activists on
both sides of the debate rallied, hold
ing competing marches, prayer ser
vices and candlelight vigils.
In Boston, two people were ar
rested for disrupting an annual prayer
service by Massachusetts Citizens For
Life. At least 600 people attended the
service. Two blocks away, more than
2,000 people attending a rally orga
nized by the National Organization
for Women vowed to intensify their
fight to keep abortion legal and pro
tect clinics.
“We’re not going to be stopped by
bullies,” NOW President Patricia Ire
land told the audience.
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U.S. relief flight arrives In Osaka
TOKYO — A jumbo jet brought 100 tons of medical equipment,
diapers, tents, fruit juice, soap and other relief supplies for earthquake
victims to western Japan Monday.
The Northwest Airlines plane arrived in Osaka with donated goods
worth $2.5 million.
Doug Killian, director of international communications at
Northwest’s headquarters in Eagan, Minn., said the donated goods
were gathered by AmeriCares, a private disaster relief group based in
New Canaan, Ct. Northwest provided the plane, and flight and ground
crews donated their services, Killian said.
He said the cost to the company was in the hundreds of thousands of
dollars but could give no figure.
Killian said it was the first relief flight to Japan from the United
States and, as far as Northwest officials could determine, from any
where in the world since the earthquake last Tuesday.
The U.S. military has flown in tents and blankets to help earthquake
victims.
Clinton to propose wage Increase
WASHINGTON — The White House Monday signaled that Presi
dent Clinton will recommend a minimum wage increase, most likely to
$5 an hour, with the announcement coming as early as Tuesday’s State
of the Union address.
Press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters that Clinton has “a very
firm idea” how he will act on the issue. Without saying outright that
Clinton will propose a hike, McCurry argued the administration’s case
for raising the rate, which is now $4.25 an hour.
“It fits with a consistent theme that this president has articulated -
that working families ... need to get a break,” McCurry said.
Senators who met with Clinton Monday morning emerged telling
reporters that it seems likely Clinton would ask for an increase to $5 per
hour.
Proposing an increased rate would play well with liberals within
Clinton’s party and draw resistance from Republicans, who fear it
would make it harder for teen-agers to find entry-level work.
Supreme Court rules on firings
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a key weapon from
companies accused of illegally firing employees, ruling Monday they
cannot escape liability by later finding a lawful reason to justify the
dismissal.
But the unanimous decision in a Tennessee case limited the rem
edies available to employees who show they were fired because of illegal
bias.
If such employees committed wrongdoing themselves, they’re not
entitled to be reinstated and also face limits on how much back pay
they can receive, the court said.
The ruling could affect thousands of cases nationwide in which
employers are accused of job discrimination based on age, race, sex or
religion.
Such laws seek to deter job bias and compensate its victims, Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court.