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Sharon stands firm on need
for West Bank military action
By Martin Merzer
Knight Ridder Newspapers
JERUSALEM (KRT) — Amid a
mounting death toll and growing
international pressure, some Is
raeli officials reluctantly conced
ed Sunday that they will have to
curtail their offensive in the West
Bank and possibly drop plans to
invade the Gaza Strip.
But urban combat still raged in
many places, no signs of withdraw
al appeared and Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon defended a military
campaign that has aroused criticism
from many corners of the world, in
cluding the White House.
“We have no interest in dragging
it out, but we have to do the job,”
Sharon told Israel Radio.
At least 14 Palestinians were
killed Sunday in Nablus alone. The
death toll so far: at least 200 Pales
tinians and 12 Israeli soldiers.
Late Sunday, Israelis along the
northern border retreated to bomb
shelters after Hezbollah guerrillas
based in Lebanon opened fire on
several villages and rockets
pounded Israeli military sites on
the Golan Heights.
Six Israeli soldiers were wound
ed during exchanges of fire with the
guerrillas, a military spokesman
said Sunday night. A second front
clearly was active in the war now.
Sharon blamed Iran and Syria,
and said Israel has issued warnings
through diplomatic channels. “We
made clear that this... could perhaps
lead to a very big outbreak,” he said.
Earlier, as he opened his weekly
Cabinet meeting, Sharon offered no
apologies for the invasion of the
West Bank.
Israeli military officials released
a grim roster of the casualties: In ad
dition to the dead, more than 1,500
Palestinians and 143 Israelis have
been wounded.
Israeli officials also said that
1,413 Palestinians have been de
tained during the 10-day campaign,
including 361 “wanted suspects.”
Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, head of mili
tary operations, claimed that few
Palestinian civilians perished and
that nearly every Palestinian victim
“died with a rifle in his hand or a sui
cide-bomb vest around his waist.”
Palestinian leaders and many cit
izens disagreed, saying countless
civilians have been killed in the Is
raeli offensive, which began after a
series of suicide bombings and oth
er attacks killed more than 125 peo
ple in March alone.
Heavy fighting continued Sun
day in a refugee camp near Jenin
and in Nablus, both in the northern
section of the West Bank, Israeli offi
cials reported. Meanwhile, with
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
expected in Israel by week’s end,
some Israeli officials paid at least lip
service to the Bush administration’s
demand that they begin the military
withdrawal from the West Bank as
soon as possible.
Israeli Cabinet Minister Matan
Vilnai told Israel Radio that Israel
“apparently will have to stop” the
offensive by the time Powell arrives.
“It could be that we won’t be able
to enter new places that we planned
on entering at this phase, for exam
ple, cities of the Gaza Strip,” Vilnai
said. Sunday’s Cabinet meeting
ended with no outward sign th^t
Sharon or his government would
capitulate to world opinion. *
“Israel, like any country in the
world, has the right to defend itself
against the cruel terror operated
against it from a center of terror fomid
only a number of kilometers from its
population centers,” the Cabinet said
in an official communique.
One day after President Bush
said he expected Israel to “with
draw without delay” from the
West Bank, his national security
adviser, Condoleezza Rice,
seemed to soften the administra
tion’s position.
“Our message to the Israelis is
that we understand that a military
mobilization of this kind and an op
eration of this size cannot be un
done in moments,” she said on
ABC’s This Week. “But the impor
tant point is to begin now, without
delay, not tomorrow, not (when)
Secretary Powell gets to the region,
but now.”
©2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Candidates
continued from page 1
said Deckert, a 1993 University
graduate and the youngest member
of the Senate at age 31.
While Deckert decided to wait
until graduation to run for office,
students Bobby Lee and Scott
Austin did not. Lee, a former stu
dent and ASUO president during
1992-93, defeated three other can
didates for Eugene City Councilor
in 1996, including incumbent
Kevin Hornbuckle.
Austin, a University junior at
the time, ran for Oregon Senator
Susan Castillo’s seat in 1998. Un
like Lee, Austin lost his race by a
wide margin, but even at the time
of his defeat he said the experience
was worthwhile.
Austin is currently a graduate
student at the University.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, D-Hood
River, Class of ’81, said that age is
less important than the ideas a
candidate has.
“I’ve never been one to believe
that age, in and of itself, is a deter
mining factor in a race,” he said. “It
can be a very difficult challenge,
but it really comes down to the type
of campaign you wage and the
power of your ideas.”
Former Oregon governor Neil
Goldschmidt agreed with Walden,
and added that voters are really
looking for people with varied ex
perience, something many students
might be able to bring to the table.
“Lack of experience can be
overcome — it’s been done be
fore,” he said.
But Goldschmidt said while he
was active in student government
at the University, he never consid
ered running for political office at
the time.
“I never thought of it as being
connected to other political is
sues,” said Goldschmidt, who
went on to secure two terms as
mayor of Portland, was appointed
as Secretary of Transportation for
Theft
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burglary and theft are felony
charges.
Aguilar said that, after talking
with a number of Barnhart resi
dents, officers couldn’t find a cause
for the alleged incidents, nor is
there a pattern of thefts in Kelley’s
past, but alcohol may have factored
into the incidents.
EPD spokeswoman Pam Alejan
dre said Kelley became extremely
intoxicated late Thursday night and
was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital.
He returned to the residence hall
early Friday and, at 6:30 a.m., re
portedly walked into a third-floor
room where two female residents
were sleeping.
Alejandre said the women awoke
immediately and pushed him out
of their room without a struggle. An
hour later, Kelley allegedly entered
the fifth-floor room across the hall
from his own. When the female res
ident awoke, she reportedly found
him rummaging through her
clothes. Alejandre said she yelled
at him to leave, and he did — with
her clothes in tow. She followed
him into the hallway, where Ale
jandre said the woman “lunged at
him to grab stuff,” and in the
process “she ripped off his shirt
and scratched his back.”
EPD officers arrived at 10:20
a.m. and arrested Kelley, but an
hour later another call came in
from two female residents who re
turned home to find their fourth
floor room “ransacked.”
Aguilar said that officers found
almost $1,000 in clothing and oth
er items from the room, including
an entire underwear drawer from a
dresser, when they, searched Kel
ley’s room.
"Some of these women, they had
no underwear or clothes to wear,”
Aguilar said.
Aguilar and other officers spent
Friday afternoon interviewing the
former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter and eventually beat Norma
Paulus in a closely-contested 1986
race for Oregon governor.
McNeill and Stewart aren’t
daunted by their lack of experi
ence so far.
“Every day, I feel that I’m doing a
little bit better,” McNeill said.
“There’s a lot of students in my dis
trict, and I hope they’d support a
fellow student.”
McNeill will run unopposed in
the May 21 primary, but faces for
mer representative Floyd Prozans
ki in the Oregon House’s newly
drawn District 8. Stewart also could
have difficulty winning his politi
cal race. He faces city council Presi
dent David Kelly in his bid for re
election. But Stewart is keeping his
hopes up and networking as best he
can with his fellow students.
“I’m an underdog, but I think I
have a chance,” Stewart said.
E-mail reporter Brook Reinhart!
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com,
victims and other residents who
saw Kelley on Friday, but none of
the residents had enough contact
with Kelley to notice if he was still
intoxicated, Aguilar said, adding
that Kelley was sober when inter
viewed Friday morning.
“I think drinking may have been
a catalyst. It may have been a facili
tator,” Aguilar said. “But he was
sober enough to leave the hospital.”
University spokesman Ross West
said University Housing circulated
a letter, drafted by Department of
Public Safety Director Tom Fitz
patrick, detailing Kelley’s arrest
and charges. This information is
also available on a special DPS hot
line at 346-5692, which will be up
dated if additional information be
comes available.
West said anyone with informa
tion regarding these or other inci
dents should call DPS at 346-5444
or EPD at 682-5121.
E-mail managing editor Jeremy Lang
at jeremylang@dailyemerald.com.