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Clinton, Yeltsin trade praise, play down gaps MOSCOW (AP)—With hugs and handshakes. President Clinton and Boris Yeltsin traded warm compli ments and played down nagging dif ferences Sunday, insisting that their election-year summit was not influ enced by presidential politics. Both leaders facing re-election battles, Clinton and Yeltsin would not even entertain the possibility of a Com munist comeback in Russia. “I am sure that I will be victorious,” Yeltsin boomed at a Kremlin news conference with Clinton. “That makes my answer irrelevant, doesn’t it,” Clinton said with a smile. With Yeltsin under lire for the bloody fighting in the breakaway re public of Chechnya, Clinton expressed sympathy with Russia’s position and compared the situation with America’s Civil War. Clinton said Abraham Lincoln gave his life for the proposition “that no stale had a right to withdraw from our union. And so, the United States has taken the position that Chechnya is a part of Russia.” As to whether the summit would help politically, Clinton said, “It’s a great mistake to put loo much of a political spin on this since typically foreign policy does not play that big a role in voting patterns.” Alter five hours of talks, Clinton and Yeltsin reported progress in re solving a dispute over the deployment of Russian troops under a 30-nation treaty on conventional forces in Eu rope. They also said they set the stage to clear up Russia’s objections to devel opment of American theater missile defenses under the 1972 Antiballislic Missile Treaty. Formal negotiations resume in Geneva in June. While the presidents met, about 300 Communists protested on Red Square, laying flowers at Lenin’s tomb. One of their banners read, “Lenin lives and will be victorious.” It was Clinton’s third trip to Mos cow in three years and his 10th meet ing with Yeltsin, the final stopon a trip that began with visits to South Korea and Japan. The trip came at a time of doubt about Russia’s continued transi tion from communism to democracy. Before returning to Washington, Clinton met with Ycltsin’schief politi cal rival, Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov, who is leading in the polls, and other opposition lead ers. Once again, Clinton insisted he was neutral in Russia’s elections. “I spent two days staying out of it,” “Thanks to President Yeltsins leadership ... democracy is taking hold. ” BILL CLINTON U.S. President Clinton declared. “I’m not going to get into it now just before I leave town.” Back home, Clinton has been criti cized for not taking a firmer stand about Chechnya and insisting that the fighting stop. Clinton said Yeltsin—sponsor of a battered peace plan — assured him that he wanted a diplomatic solution and “asked me to do a thing or two” to help secure a settlement. U.S. officials said later Yeltsin had asked Clinton to try to get King Hassan II of Morocco to use his influence with separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev to agree to negotiations on Yeltsin’s peace plan. “Tlianks to Prcsi dent Yel t sin ’ s lead ership, 60 percent of Russia’s economy is now in the hands of its people, not the state; inflation has been cut, de mocracy is taking hold,” Clinton said. Berringer Continued from Page 1 Berringer, who was expected to be selected in the weekend draft. 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Police said four people were wounded in the hostilities, which were comparatively less fiery than over the previous 10 days — per haps because of the diplomatic ef forts or just the rainy weather. At least 137 people have been killed and 312 wounded on both sides since Israel launched “Opera tion Grapes of Wrath” on April 11 to stop the Iranian-backed Hezbollah from rocketing northern Israel. Most of the casualties were Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah, or Party of God, has repeatedly fired Katyusha rockets on northern Israel from the region, where the guerrillas’ supply bases are located. It fired 20 Katyushas on Sunday, the officers reported, speaking on condition of anonym ity. Israel lifted a week-old naval blockade on Beirut Port on Sunday, but Israeli gunboats fired intermit tently on the 50-mile-long coastal highway, blocking the main supply artery from Beirut to the south for the fourth day. Two civilians, a policeman and a Lebanese soldier were wounded by the naval fire, police said. International mediators and the main players held marathon week end negotiations to end the bloodi est flare up in nearly three years, in which 400,000 people in south Lebanon and thousands more in northern Israel have been displaced. Secretary of State Warren Chris topher shuttled between Damascus and Jerusalem. The foreign minis ters of Russia, France and Italy, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, converged on Beirut alter talks in Syria, the main power in Lebanon. There were differences over which plan to adopt and who should mediate. Israel turned down the Europe ans and the Russians. Prime Minis ter Shimon Peres said after meeting Christopher on Sunday that he felt only the United States has the au thority to mediate. Chri stopher said there was “com mon ground” among the peacemak ers, but the United States felt a “special responsibility” to take the lead. Palestinian authority uncovers plot to assassinate Arafat GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian police said Sunday they had uncovered plots by Islamic mili tants to assassinate PLO chief Yasser Arafat and carry out more suicide bombings in Israel. The attack on Arafat was to take place during a scheduled visit to a Gaza City cemetery on April 28, said Col. Tawfiq Jaber, head of Palestinian intelligence in southern Gaza. “Two explosive parcels and two mines were prepared for assassinating Arafat,” Jaber said at a news confer ence where he presented six of the seven members of the Islamic militant group Hamas who were arrested in connection with the plot. Jaber said two of the men had been cooperating with police and have iden tified 16 underground Hamas cells, leading to an undisclosed number of arrests and the prevention of six planned suicide bombings in Israel. He said the two will be released. Islamic militants opposed to Arafat’speaeemakingwith Israel have claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings that killed 63 people between Feb. 25 and March 4. Netiraskan Editor J. Christopher Hain Night News Editors Rebecca Oltmans 472-1766 Melanie Branded Managing Editor Doug Kouma Anne Hjersman Assoc. News Editors Matt Waite Beth Narans _ . . _ Sarah Scalet Art Director Aaron Steckelberg Opinion Page Editor Doug Peters General Manager Dan Shattil Wire Edjtor Michelle Gamer Advertising Manager Amy Strothers Copy Desk Editor Tim Pearson Asst. 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