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Yasser Arafat says peace talks ‘at an impasse’ PARIS (AP) — Palestinian leadin' Yasser Arafat said Monday that Middle Hast pence effort* were staIhil because of Israel’s delays in implementing key provisions of the autonomy accords. "We are committed to the pew e process, but we are at an impnsiie," Arafat said after meeting Frame s Socialist presidential candidate. Uonel Jospin l^ier Monday. Arafat met with President Fran cois Mitterrand and ap|H’aied to him to htdp move the process forward, then he left for Tunis From there Arafat was to go to Cairo for a meeting of the PI.O’s executive committee on Tuesday It will let the first meeting of the committee out side the Palestinian self-rule area* since July. Some memi>er* of the executive committee resigned when Arafat signed the September 199.1 pome accord with Israel, anil others are expei te<l to boycott the meet ing PI.O and Israeli negotiators also resume talks 1 uesday in (aim The two sides have Imen trying to agree on an Israeli pullback of troops from the West Hank and the holding of Palestinian elections Tension is rising between the Palestine l.itiern lion Organization anti Israel over extending Pales tinian autonomy to the rest ol the West Hank Arafat now controls the (in/a Strip and the West Hank town of Jericho. Under the Israel-PIX) accord. Isratdi troop* were to have pulled out of West Hank tow ns by lost July to make way for Palestinian elections However, Israel delayed withdrawal after a series of attai ks by Islamic militants trying to sabotage the peace pro* .ess. In Jerusalem. Israeli offti lals said Monday that Arafat hadn't dismiss**! their offer to run the West Hank town of Jenin, and perhaps other cities, while Israeli troops maintained a presence there Israel radio quoted Arafat as saying in Pans that he was willing to consider the idea if Israel gave him (.oiitrol of other West Wank towns in addition to Jenin and if a timetable for eventual trtrop with drawal from all towns was agreed upon However, a senior Palestinian negotiator said the Palestinians had mg* ted the idea "We re not going to take over any cities while Israeli soldiers remain, even if we are given guar antees and timetables by the Israelis for a troop withdrawal," said Ahmed Qurvia. the Palestinian economics minister A Front h official in Paris said Arafat had paint ed a "very unsettling picture of the paace process" during his meeting with Mitterrand Arafat made t fear there was a "real debate" w ithin the PU) over < ontinning the peace process, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity Halation* betwoen Arafat's self-rule government and the Muslim militant group Hamas also have l»*e« increasingly tense since Arafat liegan a crack down on militants after a Jan 22 suicide bombing that killed 21 Israelis In the (eiwi Strip, gunmen firing from a car shot and wounded a Im al llamas leader as he left his house Sunday evening, a Hamas spokesman said I he identities and motive of the gunmen weren't known Police had no immediate comment. Lebanon bombers attack Israeli land RASHAYA. Lebanon (AP) — Tit-for-tat attacks erupted on the last active Arab-Israelt war front for a second day Monday ns militants raided an outpost belonging to Israeli allies and war planes bombed guerrilla target* Two fighter-bombers swooped down on Jabal Abi Hashed, on the northeastern edge of the Isrneli-ocr upied enclave in south ern Lebanon, firing at least two air-to-ground missiles, said security sources. Two |ets returned less than an hour later to fire two more missiles at the same target a dirt road used by Hezbollah guer rillas. Hezbollah, or Party of Clod, reported no casualties. Ahmed Qainar. a Hezbollah leader, warned Israelis to "expect more s«ie< live military operations against them in the days ahead." I he raids, the sixth and seventh this year, came several hours after the Iranian l«< ked guerrillas attacked an outpost of Israel's surrogate militia, the South Lebanon Army, with machine-gun fire and grenades On Sunday, in the heaviest clashes this year, Hezbollah guer rillas attar ked 12 Israeli and South Lebanon Army outposts Israeli warplanes struck hark with three air raids, and tanks and artillery unleashed sustained barrages on suspected Hezbollah stronghold* Five people were killed and five wounded. Instant passport pictures to speed you on your way Flattering passport pictures, in full color or black and white, in just 60 seconds. 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Centennial 8 O&oon D/»<<V Ermrak) Tuosdav F< Serbian agreement may escalate war BKU.RAiJJ Yugoslavia (API - Rebel Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia made military strut «K> together Monday for the first time, a sign that conflicts in tin* neighboring stall’s could est alale into a single war A military council of Bosnian and Croat tan Serbs dis< ussod i ((operation tf Croatian Sorbs arc attar i.ed by Croatian government forcas. tint Bosnian Serb rum s agtim y SKNA reported Urn mooting, in tbr* Sort) stronghold of Ban fa I-oka in northern Bosnia, mcludod Bosn ian Sorb leader Radovan Karadzic and C.roa tian Serb leader Milan Marin It ended with tin* i motion of a joint military council I hope there won't lx- an) escalation of war tf an agreement on territorial and polit ical separation is rear hud." Karadzic was quoted as saying by Belgrade's Tailing news agent v "But. unfortunately, there ore prosper ts for war " His military c hief of staff. Ct>n Manojlo Miluvanovit. tailed the joint council a "most natural” development "It is one people who hose a common enemy." he said Ke!>el Serbs seized a third of Croatia in 1891. and Bosnian Serbs control 70 pen out of that republic after nearly three years of fighting. Both "ere encouraged and supplied by Ser bian President Sloluxtan Milosevic, who says he has cut off the Bosnian Serbs to force them to make |M*a< e Hut both insist they still wish to join Serbia and say Milosevic, will assist them if tiles are in military danger I hey already have cooperated; Croatian Serlre are fighting nc ross the border in north west Bosnia against Bosnian government forces Croatia's government has told 12.000 U N troops stationed along Serb-Croat front lines for three years to begin withdrawing by March cl Without the 1 ).N presence, the war that took at least 10,(KM) lives in 1901 could begin again. Muc h of the Croatian Serbs land is con tiguous with Serb-held territory in Bosnia Cooperation between the two sides could mean more troops and better supply lines and weapons for the Croatian Serbs But Bosnian Serbs got a warning Monday from a leading Bosnian Croat that more fight ing may lie ahead in Bosnia, too. Dario Kordic said that if the fate of Bosn tan areas with traditionally large ethnic Croat populations is not resolved, "wo will not renounce the use of force" to retain them. U N spokesman l.t Col. Gary Coward reported a sharp upsurge in fighting Monday along the so-called Posavina corridor. A nar row strip of land there is the only link between Serbia and Serb holdings in west ern Bosnia and western Croatia. Military analysts consider the corridor key to the entire c onflict. Coward reported that northwest Bosnia was quiet But Bosnian radio said anti-gov ernment fore es were attacking around the town of Veliko kladusa in the far northwest. A four-month truce in Bosnia has gener ally held, except in the northwest. Both Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led govern ment say they will not renew it if mediators cannot restart pence talks Milosevic on Sunday refused the latest attempt to got peace talks moving, even though it could have brought further relax ation of tough economic sanctions. He insist ed sanctions be lifted before he makes con cessions. Trial may reveal attempt to maintain apartheid JOHANNESBURG. South Afrit a (AIM A puljt tt com mender accused of tending a ter ror campaign pleaded inmx ent Monday in a trial that could ox post* details of the white minority's attempts to retain power in apartheid's last days Testimony at Eugene tie hoti's trial may support African Nation al Congress charges that former President I- W de Klerk s Nation a! Party fomented violence even as it opened the way to the coun try's first all-race elections Inst April. The National Party needs to build support among the black majority if it is to have a chance challenging the ANC in future elections D« klt-rk became a deputy president in President Nelson Mandela's ANCMed coali tion government. I>*’ hot k. facing tit charges ranging from murder to weapons offenses, is accused of heading a special police unit targeting anti government activists Proset utors say ANC agents were tortured and killed in do hi* k's headquarters Oe km k's squad has been linked to the death of an ANl. lawyer who was killed when a tape recorder he received in the mail exploded. It has been accused of supplying weapons to the lnkatha Freedom Party, the ANC’s main rival, in order to hnii/v i(My. 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