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.
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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
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Former members of the unit
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actions as early as six years ago.
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war crimes prosecutor for for
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only after the April oka lion.
Now the government wants to
set up a Truth Commission that
would recommend granting
amnesty to people who disclose
full details of their apartheid-era
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I)*; Kml's lawyer. Flip Hat
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