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Israel, PLO will sign pact TABA, Egypt — After all-night talks, a shouting match and an angry walkout by Yasser Arafat, Israel and the PLO agreed Sunday to sign a pact at the White House endingnearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. The agreement, the second phase of the 1993 Israel-PLO peace treaty, was hailed by Palestinian leaders as a major step toward their own state. Other Palestinians said it gave them too little, and militant Jewish settlers vowed to do anything necessary to scuttle it. The 460-page pact allows for Pal estinian self-rule in 30 percent of the West Bank — containing most of its Arab population — after a step-by step Israeli pullout. Israel has occu pied the lands since the 1967 Mideast War. The plan also allows for Pales tinian elections. The accord was initialed in Taba, an Egyptian resort on the Red Sea, by the chief negotiators, Ahmed Qureia of the Palestine Liberation Organiza tion and Israel’s Uri Savir,just before the Jewish New Year holiday. The signing in Washington is set for Thurs day. “We will work so that this new year will be a real year of peace,” said Arafat, the PLOchairman. “Thisagrec ment will open the door for a better future ... to create a new Middle East of security and peace.” The agreement followed nightlong talks that capped more than 80 hours of tense negotiations. Earlier Sunday, a shouting match erupted between Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the PLO leader stormed out. Arafat was angry that Israel re fused to expand the borders of the self-rule enclave in Jericho. There were also reports he wanted a more specific timetable for the release of about 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. But Arafat relented after Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin prom - iscd to discuss the prisoner issue in Washington before Thursday’s sign ing, Palestinian sources said. Other officials said talks got back on track ^— — ^ JL “We will work so that this new year will be a real year of peace. This agreement will open the door for a better future ...to create a new Middle East of security and peace. ” YASSER ARAFAT PLOChairman after intervention by U.S. Mideast coordinator Dennis Ross and Egyp tian officials. Peres called the accord “history in the real meaning of the word.” “It is a tremendous attempt to bring people that were bom in the same cradle, who were fighting on the same fronts, to agree on a new future,” he said. President Clinton called the agree ment “a big step on the road to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.” Extremists on both sides, however, pledged to wreck the accord. Militant Jewish settlers warned of bloodshed and vowed violent opposi tion. And as newsofthe pact spread jji the West Bank, Palestinian youths hurled stones at Israeli soldiers in two cities. In Nablus, a youth was killed in a fourth day of clashes. In Hebron, protesting youths were disappointed the agreement will not bring a full Israeli withdrawal. Some troops are to remain to protect the 450 settlers livingamongthe city’s 120,000 Palestinians. The agreement detailed security measures aimed at preventing conflict between radicals among the 140,000 Jewish settlers and the 1 million Arabs in the West Bank. A summary of the agreement said it would “allow the Palestinians to con duct their own internal affairs, reduce points of friction between Israelis and Palestinians and open a new era of cooperation and coexistence based on common interest, dignity and mutual respect.” Rabin said Palestinians would get control over 30 percent of the 2,270 square-mile West Bank, which is about the size of Delaware. The accord distinguishes between the seven cities where there will be full autonomy — Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Bethlehem and most of Hebron—and rural areas where overriding security authority will remain in Israeli hands. The 12,000-strong Palestinian po lice force is expected to carry out joint patrols with Israelis in some areas. But the Palestinian police will not have authority to arrest Israelis. The Israeli withdrawal will clear the way for Palestinians to elect a 82 member self-rule council with legisla tive and executive branches. Palestin ians want elections before Jan. 20, but some said they would wait until March, the deadline for an Israeli troop pull out form Hebron. The agreement is to be brought to Rabin’s Cabinet for approval Wednes day and submitted to Parliament next Sunday, after the signing. Rabin said the agreement would enable Israel to be “a Jewish state and not a binational state... and alongside us a Palestinian entity not subservient to us, not under our rule, which will live with us in coexistence and peace.” He said he believed, however, that such an entity would be “less than” a full state. Israeli right-wing leaders blasted Sunday’s agreement. Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud oppo sition party, charged it was “peace at any price.” His colleague Benjamin Begin called it a “tragedy.” 1 ^ Policy Continued from Page 1 Those situations create conflicts of interest, Beck said, which bring the supervisor’s objectivity in grading or evaluation into question. Under the new policy, if a supervi sor and a subordinate have an intimate relationship, the supervisor must ar range for someone else to oversee that person. The supervisor does not have to explain his or her actions to the third party. The two people are allowed to stay in the personal relationship, she said, because it does not concern the uni versity. “The university can’t control that,” she said. “We think it’s a bad thing to do because, often times, someone gets hurt professionally.” For example, if a dean were dating a faculty member in his department, a third person would have to supervise the faculty member. But the dean and faculty member would be allowed to continue a personal relationship. The policy was developed by a committee made up of faculty, admin istrative, staff and student representa tives from several university groups. So far, Beck said, this draft hasn’t received any objections. After the committee is finished with the draft, it goes to Christy Horn, interim director for affirmative action and diversity, who then forwards it to Interim Chancellor Joan Leitzel. “It’s broader-based than more people think,” Horn said. “I think it’s a very good document.” McMenamin Continued from Page 1 cst,” said Donald Gregory, director of the Division of Continuing Studies. “Her time with us was all too brief.” Tara Moore, a student assistant in Schramm Residence Hall, said McMenamin and Bognich brought life* to the third floor where they lived before moving off campus. “I only knew Tina for less than a year,” Moore said. “What I really knew about her was she had a charming personality.” Three women who lived on the same residence hall floor recalled McMenamin’s love for art and hats. “Whenever I wear a hat, I think of Tina,” said Kim Larson, who was over come with tears and emotion. Bognich said the two months since she walked in and found her room mate in a pool of blood have been frustrating. The first month, she said, police constantly called and asked questions about McMenamin’s friends. Now, the questions have subsided, and Bognich has moved to a different Lincoln apartment complex. She said she strongly believed McMenamin’s killer would be found. “I really think that it will be solved. They have a lot of leads,” Bognich said after the service. “I’m just ner vous for the trial.” Bognich, a sophomore nursing major, attends counseling sessions at the University Health Center, she said. She is taking one class on campus and two through independent study. She said she will become a full-time stu dent again next semester. “I’m just trying to come back to campus,” she said. 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