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Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky News Digest Friday, February 10,1995 Page 2 Rabin-Arafat meeting, relations breaks down EREZ JUNCTION, Gaza Strip — The crisis in Israeli-Palestinian rela tions deepened Thursday after their leaders failed to agree on how to expand Palestinian autonomy with out endangering Israeli security. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat did not re solve any disputes during their 2 172 hour meeting Thursday at an Israel PLO command post in northern Gaza. Reflecting the tensions, the two did not hold a joint news conference. However, they agreed to meet again next Thursday. Rabin told Arafat he must rein in Islamic militants before Israel will talk about expanding Palestinian self rule to the West Bank. Fifty-five Is raelis have been killed by Palestinian militants since October in a surge of suicide bombings. Rabin also refused Arafat’s de mand that Israel lift a 19-day closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip imposed after a bombing attack last month by Islamic militants that killed 21 Israelis. A tense Arafat, speaking later at his Gaza City office, complained that Israel was turning the Palestinian areas into a giant holding cell. “If there is an Israeli wish for political separation, then we welcome it. But we will not welcome that they lock us in Gaza and the West Bank and hold the keys to the big prison,” he said. The Palestinians accused Rabin of using security concerns as an excuse not to honor an agreement to with draw troops from the West Bank and permit Palestinian elections. “Security guarantees should be given through the political process, and not through procrastination,” said Palestinian spokesman Yasser Abed Rabbo. - Under the Israel-PLO autonomy accord, Israel troops should have pulled out of West Bank towns by July 1994, in advance of Palestinian gen eral elections. Delays in implement ing autonomy pushed back the elec tion date, then Israelis had second thoughts following this fall’s attacks by Palestinian militants. Thursday’s summit rehashed the arguments have bogged down the negotiations for months. “If Rabin doesn’t help Arafat in proving to the Palestinians that peace pays off, Arafat will not be able to gain control over the opponents of peace,” an editorial in the Israeli daily Maariv said Thursday. “But if Arafat does not succeed in overcoming the terrorist organiza tions, Rabin will not be able to help him.” Prior to the summit, Arafat or dered the arrests of dozens of mili tants and established a military court to try those suspected of attacking Israelis. While the two leaders met, Pales tinian police raided the Gaza City headquarters of Islamic Jihad, the radical group that carried out the latest bomb attack. Police also de tained three leaders of the Muslim militant group Hamas. Rabin said Thursday that Arafat must do more, including disarming his opponents. Negotiator Yossi Sarid said Israel could not open the border yet because of warnings that Islamic militants planned attacks marking the Feb. 25 anniversary of the Hebron massacre of 29 Muslims by a Jewish settler. If Arafat intensifies his crackdown on militants by next Thursday’s meet ing with Rabin, “we will respond in kind,” Sarid told Israel TV. Disputed issues: ■ Arafat wants Israel to lift closure of the West bank and Gaza Strip, enabling tens of thousands of Palestinians access to their «ob$ in Israel; Rabin says he won! until Arafat is more successful in foiling attacks against Israel ■ Arafat wants Israel to commit to a timetable for troop withdrawal from West Bank towns; Rabin wants Arafat to first move decisively against Palestinian militants, including disarming them. ■ Arafat wants to resume negotiations on release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners still held by Israel; Rabin has rojoctod tills demand. .f • Arafat wants Israel to stop all budding in Jewish settlements in the West Bank *. and Gaza; Rabid has said tiiat despite ^ his 1992 promise to freeze settlement budflng, ferae! constfuctidn aroundJerusatem and several otherareas, $$ AP/Car) Fox Bombing suspect captured ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Police found a little surprise this week when they arrested the man suspected of mastermining the World Trade Cen ter bombing: explosives in his bag, hidden in toy cars. “He was found with explosives ... and chemicals used in making bombs,” Interior Minister Nasirullah Babar, who supervises Pakistan’s police, said Thursday as he described the arrest of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef. Nabbed Tuesday in Pakistan, Yousef was secretly whisked to the United States in a U.S. government plane. In New York on Thursday, he pleaded innocent to 11 counts relat ing to the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of the Manhattan landmark. That attack on the world’s second tallest building killed six people, in jured more than 1,000 others, caused $500 million in damage and intro duced Americans to the fear of inter national terrorism. Clean-shaven and dapper in a blue double-breasted suit, Yousef appeared calm, and spoke fewer than 10 words during his brief appearance before U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan. “I plead not guilty,” he said in En glish, waving off an interpreter. He told the judge he understood the in dictment. The most serious charges Yousef faces are punishable by life in prison without parole. Yousefwasbeingheld without bond until his next court ap pearance on Wednesday. Authorities say Yousef, who came to the United States in 1992, bought and mixed the chemicals for the bombs that exploded in a van parked under World Trade Center suspect captured The man accused of masterminding the World Trade Center bombing was captured in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday and returned to New York. : -T Ramzi Ahmed Yousef Age: 27 years Accused of: Masterminding the World Trade Center bombing Evidence: His fingerprints found on two bomb-making manuals and on containers of bomb-making chemicals. API Terry Kole, Brian Sipple the 110-story twin towers. “He was under surveillance from Yousef, who had been living with the time he arrived,” Babar told The two other bombing suspects in Jersey Associated Press. City, N.J., escaped the night of the The interior minister told the AP bombmg, usmg an alias to fly to Iraq that Yousef was immediately handed via Pakistan. His fingerprints were over to the Americans, who whisked found on two bomb-making manuals him out of the country Tuesda seized by authorities and on contain- J J ers of bomb-making chemicals, au- “We turned him over to the Ameri thorities say. cans and told them to take him out of Last Sunday, Yousef arrived in ^ere’ ®a^ar sa'^ Pakistan on a flight from Bangkok, But he told the British Broadcast Thailand, according to Babar, the ing Corp. that before being handed interior minister. He was tailed by over to U.S. officials, Yousef was plainclothes police for two days, then interrogated by Pakistani authorities arrested Tuesday at a Holiday Inn. and admitted to being involved in the Quayle won’t try for presidential bid WASHINGTON — Hard pressed to attract the money and talent necessary for a strong cam paign, former Vice President Dan Quayle abruptly reversed course Thursday and said he would not seek the 1996 Republican presi dential nomination. Quayle’s.decision came less than three weeks after he vowed to cam paign aggressively as a voice for the conservative “unsilent major ity” that he said was appalled at the decline of the family and the lib eral bent of the social welfare sys tem. In a statement, Quayle said he was confident he could have waged a winning campaign if he had sub jected himself to a grueling fund raising schedule this year. “How ever, we chose to put our family first and to forego the disruption to our lives that a third straight na tional campaign would create,” he said. Advisers, associates and Repub lican operatives, however, said it became clear as Quayle geared up to run that the fund-raising out look was bleak, and that he also was having a hard time convincing seasoned campaign operatives to sign on. A new, front-loaded GOP primary calendar has put a pre mium on early fund-raising, a dif ficult process cited by several oth ers who recently bowed out, in cluding fellow Bush administra tion alumni Jack Kemp and Dick Cheney. Quayle associates said recent health problems were not a factor; Quayle was hospitalized recently for blood clots and then to have his appendix removed because of a benign tumor. “He is completely recovered,” said Quayle adviser Mark Goodin. “He was extremely excited and fired up about running a cam paign,” said Goodin. “But the fi nancial aspect of it threw a bucket of cold water on his enthusiasm.” The decision leaves three defi nite Republican candidates: Sen ate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas and former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. A handful of others are contemplating runs, including Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana and Arlen Specter of Pennsylva nia, as well as 1992 Bush primary challenger Patrick Buchanan. A few GOP governors and California Rep. Bob Doman also are mulling the race. For all his image problems in the electorate at large, Quayle was a favorite of cultural and religious conservatives who are active in GOP affairs and particularly influ ential in several early primary states. He is scheduled to speak Saturday night to a major conser vative gathering in Washington. News... __— in a Minute Former Senator Fulbright dies at 89 WASHINGTON — Former Sen. J. William Fulbright, whose criticism of America’s “arrogance of power” in Vietnam gave intellec tual substance to the anti-war movement, died Thursday at 89. Fulbright was an early mentor to Bill Clinton, who worked as clerk in his Senate office while a student at Georgetown University and who, years later, awarded him the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And Fulbright was the architect of the Fulbright scholarships, an international exchange program in which tens of thousands of students and teachers from more than 120 countries have gone abroad to study. Because of it, he was particularly revered in Japan. The Arkansas Democrat was one ofthe few American legislators of this century whose name was known around the world. Fulbright died of a stroke in his Washington home near the embassies of-Massachusetts Avenue. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright presided over televised hearings in 1966 and 1967. The hearings helped turn the country against the war. While others said the fall of Vietnam would threaten U.S. security, Fulbright said the war had choked domestic reform and was “turning the Great Society into a sick society.” Nebiraskan Editor Jeff Zeleny Night News Editors Ronda Vlasin 472-1766 Jamie Karl Managing Editor Jeff Robb Damon Lee Assoc. 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