ex oerience the
cifference
Gaza. This was expected. What
wasn't expected was that Fatah
would join in the strike, and in
the bloody riots.
Mr. Rabin was counting on
Arafat's men to eventually do
the army's work by fighting
Hamas, and instead, here were
Arafat's legions fighting along-
side Hamas loyalists against
the army.
Ze'ev Schiff, dean of Israeli
military correspondents, said,
"The message from the Pales-
tinians is: 'The war goes on.
Those [such as Akel] who kill
Israelis are heroes,' and this is
a bad sign for the peace
process."
Another bad sign was the vic-
tory of the Hamas-led list over
the Fatah faction in student
elections at Bir Zeit University
in Ramallah.
This was the first election in
the territories of any kind since
the September agreement. The
issue was the peace accord, and
even though Bir Zeit had al-
ways been a Fatah stronghold,
Hamas carried the day.
Against this backdrop of
worsening Palestinian militan-
cy and extremism, the change
in command in Gaza and Jeri-
The killings of
Jewish settlers
have slowed down,
but now the battle
is between
Palestinians and
Israeli soldiers.
cho was getting under way. Two
leaders of Arafat's Palestine
Liberation Army, whose ranks
will make up the bulk of the
Palestinian police, toured Gaza
with Israeli military and civil
administration officials. They
inspected the borders and some
of the army installations due to
be evacuated and transferred
to the future guardians of pub-
lic order.
Twenty-two soon-to-be Pales-
tinian policemen, who will be
guarding VIPs of the new
regime, also crossed over from
Egypt to take up residence in
the territories.
Reserve Israeli army soldiers
began getting call-up notices to
start laying the groundwork for
the pull-out. Bulldozers and
earthmovers began digging
trenches where an electronic
fence, separating the Gaza Strip
from Israel proper, will be built.
And Chairman Arafat called
on some 7,000 fighters from the
Palestine Liberation Army, now
spread throughout the Arab
Middle East, to gather in Egypt
and Jordan to prepare to cross
the borders into Gaza and Jeri-
cho to put on their police uni-
forms and strap on their
submachine guns.
It all seemed too fast. Israeli
support for the peace accord had
been falling for weeks, accord-
ing to polls, and the most recent
developments were sure to
strengthen that trend.
So when it came out that the
negotiators couldn't agree on
the release of Israel's 10,000
Palestinian prisoners; or on who
would be guarding the border
crossing into Gaza and Jericho;
or on where the army could de-
ploy for the protection of Jew-
ish settlers; or on the borders of
autonomous Jericho, the news
was welcome.
In the current atmosphere,
the operative phrase is: Take
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Denies Rumors
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Rus-
sian National Circus, per-
forming in Israel, has denied
local reports that its mem-
bers are planning to remain
in Israel.
The management and per-
formers of the Moscow-based
circus, which was giving per-
formances in Beersheba this
week, appeared angered as
they answered questions
about their plans.
"It's a different Russia to-
day. You don't have to defect
as you had to in the past. To-
day, we are all free to come
and go as we wish," a
spokesman for the group
said.
Circus director Andrei
Yufin, 50, referring to the
fact that his father is Jew-
ish, said: "That doesn't
mean I came to Israel to
defect or stay here, as re-
ported so sensationally in
the press. •
"We came here on busi-
ness," Mr. Yufin said. "It's
possible that some of the 100
performers want to stay, or
even to take out citizenship,
but as far as I know, no one
has yet made such a deci-
sion."
Bear-trainer Viktor
Kodravchi, 42, a circus per-
former for 32 years, said:
"We came to Israel for a
series of performances, and
when they are over we may
stay on here briefly to help
with the Academy for Circus
Arts being planned here."
He noted, though, that
several circus members were
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