Nation & world briefing
Bush says he’s dedicated
to Mideast peace process
Diego Ibarguen
and Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt —
Heading into two days of talks on
Middle East peace, President
George W. Bush said Monday that
he was prepared to devote whatev
er time was needed to reach a so
lution to the bloody Israel-Pales
tinian conflict.
“The first message js I will dedi
cate the time and energy to move
the process forward. And I think
we’ll make some progress,” Bush
said. “My expectations in the Mid
dle East are to call all the respec
tive parties to their responsibility
to achieve peace. And to make it
very clear that my country and I
will put in as much time as neces
sary to achieve the vision of two
states living side-by-side in peace.”
Bush is to take part Tuesday in a
summit in Sharm el-Sheik with
the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Sau
di Arabia and Bahrain, and the
new Palestinian prime minister,
Mahmoud Abbas. He then travels
to Aqaba, Jordan, to meet with Ab
bas and Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon.
Observers say the meetings offer
the best hope of movement toward
ending Palestinian-Israeli blood
shed that has claimed more than
3,200 lives, mostly Palestinians,
since September 2000.
“I fully understand this is going
to be a difficult process. I fully un
derstand we need to work with our
friends ... to achieve the process. I
know we won’t make progress un
less people assume their responsi
bilities,” Bush said,
Joining the president in Egypt,
Secretary of State Colin Powell de
scribed “a moment of opportunity
for peace.” The Sharm el Sheik
meeting, he said, “is important to
make sure that the Arab leader
ship is behind and in support of
the road map and the president’s
efforts, and will play their part.”
Powell predicted that Bush would
travel to Aqaba “with the strong
support of the Arab nations.”
The meetings could give the so
called “road map” to Middle East
peace a crucial boost in its early
stages. The plan, drafted by the
United States, the European
Union, the United Nations and
Russia, envisions an independent
Palestinian state by 2005.
Bush’s visit is his first to the
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overall, we want to be cautious
and see how the financial markets
sort out the rule-making. I don’t
think there will be as many
transactions as opponents of this
rule-making fear.”
Media General Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer J. Stewart
Bryan, whose company already
owns a newspaper and a TV sta
tion in common in six cities, said
the agency’s vote validates his
company’s “convergence” strategy
merging broadcast and print news
gathering. But he criticized the
FCC for leaving intact a ban on
such mergers in the nation’s
smallest markets.
“Local news is expensive to pro
duce, and television stations in mar
kets of all sizes are curtailing or elim
inating local news,” he said. “If the
new rule stands, more local news will
be lost in smaller markets.”
Media General owns 25 newspa
pers in the Southeast and has a 20
percent stake in The Denver Post.
Opponents of the new rules said
they would wage national cam
paigns opposing big media to bring
heat on Congress and to pressure
the FCC to change course. Demo
cratic Commissioner Michael
Copps said the agency “awoke a
sleeping giant.”
He said the FCC received nearly
750,000 comments from the public
on the rules change, with “99.9 per
cent” opposing the changes.
Adelstein urged opponents to
keep fighting.
“This is far from over,” he said.
“Congress may prove more re
sponsive to the citizens who pas
sionately plead for the independ
ence and diversity of their media.”
Democratic Sens. John Kerry of
Massachusetts and John Edwards
of North Carolina, who are both
running for president, faulted the
FCC for relaxing the rules. Many
other Democrats in Congress
joined them, and the issue has
irked some Republicans as well.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
plans to lead a meeting of the Sen
ate Commerce Committee with
the five FCC commissioners on
Wednesday to discuss the media
ownership rules.
But Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La.,
who heads the House Energy and
Commerce Committee, applaud
ed the FCC for relaxing most of
its rules. He scolded the agency
for tightening its regulation of ra
dio ownership.
The FCC changed its definition
of the local market in a way that
will restrict the number of radio
stations one company can own.
That ruling was a setback for
Clear Channel Communications
Inc. of San Antonio, which owns
more than 1,200 radio stations
across the country.
“Clear Channel is deeply disap
pointed with today’s FCC vote to
re-regulate the radio industry,”
said company president and chief
operating officer Mark Mays.
Market analysts say the new
rules will probably lead newspaper
companies to buy and swap more
TV stations. Analysts’ speculation
has centered on companies like
Gannett Inc., Tribune Co., Media
General Inc. and Dallas-based
Belo Corp., which owns The Dal
las Morning News and three other
daily newspapers, along with 19
television stations.
Congress voted in 1996 to re
quire the FCC to justify its broad
cast ownership rules every two
years. Last year, the U.S. Court of
Appeals in Washington, D.C.,
struck down one rule, sent two
others back to the commission
and said the FCC failed to demon
strate a rationale for the way it
limits broadcast ownership.
Susan Ness, a Democrat who
was on the commission when it
conducted its last review, said the
agency went too far Monday in re
sponding to the courts.
“They used a meat ax instead of
a knife,” she said. “The court
slapped us for gradualism. It does
n’t mean the rules could not
be justified.”
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Middle East, and represents his
deepest venture into Middle East
peacemaking. If successful, the
meetings could help soften anger
at the United States among Arabs,
who believe that America favors
the Israelis in negotiations.
To reach the road map’s end
goal of a Palestinian state, Israelis
and Palestinians must make a se
ries of increasingly difficult con
cessions, beginning with recipro
cal statements accepting each
other’s right to exist.
In the early stages, Palestinians
must crack down on terrorist
groups and continue reforming the
corruption-ridden Palestinian Au
thority. Israelis must refrain from
violent incursions into Palestinian
territories, freeze the expansion of
Jewish settlements in those terri
tories and dismantle settlements
built since March 2001.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
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