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Troops to leave West Bank towns It.KISAl.IM I At’) Israel con firmed now details Wednesday of an emerging breakthrough on expand* mg Palestinian self-rule, but it also added a warning attacks on Israeli* by militants opposed to the pea<:e process must stop. Foreign Minister Shimon Pores delivered the warning with the announcement that Israel's with drawal from the West Bank will expand with phased troop pullouts from four towns before Palestinian elections this soar "1 think that the Palestinians who enter the cities understand very well that if there will he terrorism, everything that was agreed upon will not stand the test of reality." Peres told reporters. Scon's of Israelis have been killed in attac ks in the 14 months since Palestinian s4>lf-mle was estab lished in the Gaza Strip and the West Hank area of Jericho under the first stage of a September toil Israel-PLO accord. The West Bank pullout is far more compileated than the first stage because Hfi.OOO Jewish settlers live throughout the territory — compared to 5.000 in Gaza and none in Jerit ho. Nonetheless. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a tar get date for signing an agreement on a troop with drawal Israeli Foreign Ministry tlirwi tor IJri Savir and Palestinian Economics Minister Ahrned Qttrein met Wednesday in Jerusalem to begin working out final details of the accord. Clinton administration officials said the agree merit probably would la- signed in Washington A final decision depends on the outcome of the nego tiations. said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. Peres said Israel plans it phased pullout from parts of the West Bank over two years. starling with four towns Nablus. |<>mn. Qalqilya and Tulkarm before Palestinian o1«h lions an* held late this sear A Palestinian offic sal. speaking on condition of anonymity. said the initial pullout would l**-gm four weeks after the agreement is signed and end at least ZTt days before the voting During the elect urns irrangements would )»• made in the three other large West Hank towns Kamallah Bethlehem and Hebron so that Israeli troops won t In- present when Palestinians go to the polls, Peres said In the second stage of the pullout in Israel will leave other towns and villages, and Israelis and Palestinians will jointly patrol rural areas Israel has indicated it may want to hold on to Hebron, where 450 lews live amid AO.000 Pales tinians, throughout the entire autonomy phase, which will last until May 1900 A third troop pullbnt k. from rural areas, w ill take place in mid 1997. Pen*s said Although the espanded autonomy is already a year late and both sides are under pressure to show results. Peres said that if the target il.it** is missed "bv a week or two it will not In- a tragedy Israel, meanwhile, is hurriedly paving bypass roads to unable Israeli settlers to avoid Arnh-popu lated areas Fences to separate the populations are also planned in some areas covered by the net ord Proposed maps of the redeployment revival a bowl! daring mesh of sectors under Israeli. Palestinian or joint control. Negotiators must also resolve the boundaries of tin' autonomous regions the transfer of i ivilian authorities, the parte ipation of Jerusalem residents ill the Palestinian tile* turns and the M/e of the Pales tinian national council Major recasts cabinet after leadership vote t.ONIK)N I AD A (lav after winning a hard-fought party leadership ra< Prime Minister John Major appoint ed a new (Cabinet today that gave little comfort to the right wing Conservatives who opposed him Major gamed an opportuni ty to shake up the government when he took two thirds of the vote Tuesday against former Cabinet member John Red wood in the party leadership e!*** tion Today, he promoted a trust isl alls I Mtmse S«s rvtarv Mai colrn Kifkind. to sm i eed the nrtirmg foreign s«s retarv, I km glas Hurd Michael Portillo, who was poised to challenge Major if thi- leadership rai e had gone tn a second round, succeeds Kifkind at defense Portillo is a leader of the party's right wing, which is Uneasy about the growing povser of the f airo|M-.m union Portillo hat ked Mn|ur in tin leadership race, although his friends had already organised a campaign headquarters in (;<iso Major had stumbled At tiif Defense Department, Portillo will have few oppor tomtit’s to thwart the yjovern immt s European polo y. The Conservatives' deepest divi sion* are on Britain's rolo in thtt European Union, an issue which many regard as a mat tor of national sovereignty Portillo's old department. Employment. was aholislonl and most of its duties non transferred to the Education Department Prado Not rotary Michattl I Ifsoll mo, who was also o\|hs tod to jump into the rut w if Major had failed to win a i tear first-round % it lory. was appointed deputy prune min ister. Ills new duties weren't immediately t leer hut it was expei ted that he would move into a larger role as a s|K>ki‘Mnutt for the government ami the Conservative Party Major also fired party chair man Jermnv Hanley , a further indication that he hopes to imp!i tv e tin- Cot it", imago State-supported killings on rise, Amnesty reports LONDON (AP) — Thu geno cide agnin.si minority Tutsis in Rwanda last year was the most extreme example of the new wave of human rights abuses. Amnesty International said Wednesday in its annual report The London-based human rights group said mass killings, summary executions and "dis appearances" were all on the rise in 1994. and its general secretary, Pierre Sane, noted “a < hanging pattern" of rights violations "In 19*14. what yve have seen are gross, massive violations of human rights taking place in the streets more than in the prison cells," he said in a statement. More than MO,000 people were killed by Hutu-dominated gov ernment forces and extremist militias in Rwanda In neighbor ing Burundi, the tables were turned, and Tutsis killed thou sands of Hutus Similar massai res occurred in other parts of Africa, including those carried out by government and opposition troops in Ango la, Liberia and Sierra 1-eone In Guatemala, the report said, summary executions have increased significantly, with human rights workers, govern ment opponents and journalists among the nearly 300 people killed and 30 who are missing Magda Lopez Toledo. Guatemala's charge d'affaires in London, did not deny the charges, but said Guatemala recently revamped its Supreme Court, strengthened the powers of the attorney general and intro duced human rights training for police. In Colombia, government and quasi-government forces were behind more than 1,000 deaths and t4U disappearances, the report said Amnesty International said hundreds of civilians were killed by both government and opposi tion forces in Algeria, and that killings continued in Last Timor as Indonesia repressed the inde pendence movement there. Indonesia hotly denied the charge. "Indonesia always examined and judged those who were mis pei ted of breaking the low hv a judicial court, an independent and neutral body," said Hendrati S Munthe, a spokeswoman for the Indonesian Embassy. Amnesty International at cosed Israel ol possible executions in 82 fatal shootings of Palestinians, and of continuing systematic tor turn against Palestinian detainees despite the peace accord In response. Israel's justice Ministry said terror attacks have taken 75 Israeli lives since the accord was signed in imu Spokeswoman Kttie Kshed saul interrogation of terror suspects was supervised and did not con stitute torture. Western nations were also crit icised In France. Amnesty Inter national said the courts gave only "nominal" sentences to police men guilty of unlawful shootings and killings In all, state-sanctioned execu tions occurred in 54 of the J5t countries mentioned in the 353 page report, and people were know n to have disappeared in 2't countries Amnesty Internation al said this shift towards extra judicial violence could lead to chaos. "What we want is to create a climate where impunity will pre vail no more,” Sane said. "What we want is for the perpetrators to be brought to justice." 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