TRWWFAWA, n 4M. , 047CFAs, Latest Terror Attack Prompts Anger, Rage — "Mg411:' SAVINGS Now! <1. • *M .O .k:414 , 5.01,RE LAXE PO 15 6121.0 t■sa.oe-voloccr GAN 14 UNA HaVtiO31 31 t e 11393100W 0 N4. Jack Cauley Ca u l ey NO Orchard Lake Road Between 14 and 15 Mile 10 HOURS: Mon. & Thurs. 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Tues. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Wed., Fri. 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Jerusalem (JTA) — A political firestorm has erupted here in the cut short a trip to the United wake of this week's bus attack in Kingdom upon learning of the at- Tel Aviv, with the opposition tack. Mr. Rabin, who first heard blasting the government for not about the attack during an in- cracking down enough on the terview on a local radio station in London, blamed Islamic radicals Palestinians. Amid a mood of anger and for trying to destroy the peace frustration at the third terrorist process. "It is the continuation of the at- attack to strike Israel in 10 days, four opposition Knesset factions tempt by those who are the ene- submitted no-confidence motions mies of peace, the extreme Islamic terror groups Hamas and in the government. Likud Party leader Benjamin Islamic Jihad," he said. Foreign Minister Shimon Netanyahu warned that if Rabin did not crack down on the Pales- Peres vowed that Israel "will not tinians, he will be "personally re- hesitate to find those responsible sponsible for a wave of disasters for this terrible action and to pre- vent them in the future." that will follow." In Washington, President Clin- The bomb exploded about 9 a.m. local time Wednesday, shat- ton termed the Tel Aviv attack tering a Dan bus traveling north an "outrage against the con- along Dizengoff Street in the science of the world." The terrorist "violence is aimed heart of Tel Aviv's shopping dis- trict. The bomb also ripped apart at destroying the hopes of the a second bus traveling in the oth- er direction. According to initial police re- "Yassir Arafat is not ports, the explosion killed at least 22 people and left over 40 wound- lifting a finger ed, some seriously. Witnesses reported finding against the Hamas." body parts strewn across the Benjamin Netanyahu streets of Israel's largest city. Hamas, the Islamic funda- mentalist movement opposed to peace with Israel, claimed re- sponsibility for the latest attack, Palestinian people as surely as it is directed at the people of Israel. -\ as it had thci two earlier ones. On Oct. 9, two Hamas mem- They must not be allowed to suc- bers opened fire on a pedestrian ceed," said Mr. Clinton. In the wake of the bombing, mall in Jerusalem, killing two the army sealed off the Gaza and injuring 13 others. That same day, Hamas opera- Strip and the West Bank. Au- tives kidnapped Israeli soldier thorities had re-opened Gaza on Nachshon Waxman, who died Monday, after closing it in the along with his captors and Nir wake of Mr. Waxman's kidnap- Poraz, an Israeli commando, last ping. The attack came as Israeli and Friday, when Israeli soldiers at- Palestinian negotiators were tempted his rescue. Claiming responsibility for meeting in Cairo to discuss ex- Wednesday's attack, an anony- panding autonomy in the West mous caller to Israel Radio said Bank. Israel has maintained that the the bombing was in reprisal for the killing of Mr. Waxman's cap- Palestinian Authority has done tors during last Friday's rescue too little to rein in extremist Is- lamic groups. attempt. Mr. Peres said Wednesday Israeli authorities said they be- lieved Wednesday's attack was that it was "too early" to say if Is- the work of a suicide bomber who rael would move ahead with the boarded the bus with more than peace talks. In a statement from Gaza, 100 pounds of explosives. It was unclear whether the terrorist had Palestine liberation Organiza- the bombs strapped to his body tion Chairman Yassir Arafat con- or whether the explosives were demned the bombing and extended condolences to the vic- carried aboard in a bag. Police kept back bystanders tims of the attack. "Pushing forward with the and brought in bomb experts af- ter a suspected second bomb was peace process and implementing found at the site. According to Tel the rest of the agreement is the Aviv Mayor Ronnie Milo, police only way to respond to the ene- delayed removing bodies from the mies of peace who are getting charred, twisted metal of the bus their support, their training and because they thought the body of financing from well-known out- the terrorist was booby-trapped. side parties," he said. ❑