Arafat lives through
attack on compound
By Christine Spolar
Chicago Tribune
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Vow
ing defiance but feeing growing doubts
about his future as Palestinian leader,
Yasser Arafat emerged Thursday from
the remnants of his shrinking West
Bank compound, pummeled anew in
a morning siege by Israeli troops.
As Israel mourned the 17 people
who died Monday when a suicide
bomber struck a commuter bus in
the country’s north, Arafat accused
Israeli forces of trying to kill him
when their tanks and bulldozers re
sponded to the bombing by pound
ing his Ramallah bedroom, home
and office complex early Thursday.
Israeli officials dismissed Arafat's
charge. Killing Arafat would have been
easy, the Israelis say, given the collapse
of his security services and the over
whelming firepower of the Israeli army.
More difficult for Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon is finding a
way to decisively sideline a man he
insists has neither the will nor the
ability to be a reliable partner.
Sharon has long tried to persuade
the Bush administration to abandon
Arafat, who retains someU.S. support
by virtue of being the Palestinians’
only elected leader. With Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak scheduled
to meet with President Bush this
weekend, and Sharon to visit Wash
ington next week, Israel is pressing for
more leeway to act against Arafat.
In its six-hour assault on the Ramal
lah compound, a thundering echo of
the Israeli army siege that made Arafat
a captive from late March until early
May, Israeli troops and tanks again
showed the Palestinian people that
they can move at will against the
Palestinian Authority leader.
A dormitory was pummeled into a
mountain of concrete and a swirl of
white powder. A gas station was flat
tened. Mattresses and bureaus tumbled
out .of one building. A small fire was
sparked in another. By the time the thun
der of grenades, tanks shells and auto
matic gunfire fell silent around 7 a.m.,
six buildings were mbble and one Pales
tinian intelligence officer was dead.
“If there had been any intention of
harming Arafat, it would not have
been a problem,” said Capt. Jacob Dal
lal, an Israeli army spokesman.
Arafat, however, again presented
himself as a survivor.
Emerging shortly before 10 a.m. to
flash a V-for-victory sign with a trem
bling, pale hand, Arafat took reporters on
a tour of his wreck of a complex. An Is
raeli blast had opened a hole in the wall
between his bedroom and bathroom,
and a fine dust covered the quarters.
"I was supposed to sleep here last
night but I had some work down
stairs," Arafat said. "Of course (the
Israelis) knew where I was. Every
body knows this is my bedroom."
Arafat has said he would rather die
than endure exile, and on Thursday he
repeated this while examining the dam
age from the latest Israeli attack on his
compound. 'Expel me?" laughed Arafat,
when asked about it Twill diehere."
(Correspondent Howard Witt contributed
to this report.) © 2002, Chicago Tribune.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
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periment, a group of local artists
from the University and Eugene
communities.
There was a smaller Inside/Out
performance in 2001, hosted by the
Campbell Club co-op. This year is
the first year that the Cultural Fo
rum has been involved, and the
event has grown.
UO Cultural Forum Visual Arts
Coordinator Mary Rasmussen said
the purpose of this event is to fuse
all forms of art together in two
shows. Promoters also want to fea
ture the artwork being created in
the local community and the sur
rounding area.
“This event is to promote the arts
from every genre,” UO Cultural Fo
rum National Music Coordinator
Alexis Stevens said. “It’s a collabo
ration of many different art forms.
The overall theme is the coming to
gether of opposites.”
Stevens said more than one per
former will be onstage at a time
combining different art forms. For
example, she said, while a poet is
speaking, there will also be an art
performance and film playing in
the background.
“When different artists come to
gether, it forms a conversation of all
art,” Rasmussen said.
Each night has a different theme,
and Friday will celebrate the wed
ding of the sun and the moon. Pro
moters want people to dress in for
mal wear. On Saturday, the theme
will be the sun and moon’s wedding
reception, and promoters want peo
ple to wear “freaked-out gear” or ec
statically extreme ensembles.
“We split up the nights because
it’s a juxtaposition between two
arts, the formal and the informal,”
Rasmussen said. “Each night will
appeal to different people.”
Friday night, promoters sched
uled more “classical” art, such as
academic poetry, ballroom dance
groups and chamber music. Satur
day will feature more “extreme”
art, such as fire dancers, perform
ance art and experimental music.
Friday night’s headliners will be
Mood Area 52, a local Eugene sev
en-piece tango band. Stevens said
the band is a diverse group of peo
ple playing instruments such as the
accordion, violin and saxophone.
“They fit the mood for Friday
night,” Stevens said. “There will be
tango dancers dancing to their mu
sic, and they fit the marriage setting.”
For Saturday’s “Carnival” theme,
Madigan Shive of the San Francisco
band Bonfire Madigan will be per
forming solo. Shive is a cellist and vo
calist who plays a folk-punk mixture.
Shive will be flying in from her Euro
pean tour and this will be her only
show in the United States. Cultural
Forum Regional Music Coordinator
Nathan Hazard said Shive writes all
of her songs, and she combines
chamber music with stylized vocals.
“I think that talent like Madigan
doesn’t come through the Eugene
area all the time,” Hazard said.
“She is a genius of our generation.”
Other performances will include
Champagne Syndicate, a local funk
blues band, DJ Silver, a techno hip
hop artist, Eugene Capoeria Team,
a martial arts group and the Eugene
Highlanders, a local bagpipe band.
In addition, the Olympus Mons
will be performing tribal music and
the University’s Hawaii Club will
be chanting and dancing.
Stevens said she hopes
Inside/Out will be an excellent ve
hicle for local artists to expand
their audience.
“This production shows what
young people can do to promote
the arts and be creative,” she said.
The doors open both nights at
7:30 p.m. and the shows begin at 8
p.m. Tickets for one night cost $9
for students and $12 for the gener
al public. Two-night tickets are $13
for students and $15 for the gener
al public. The tickets are available
at Fasttixx outlets, the EMU Ticket
Office and some Safeway locations.
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
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