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LASSIVAN OLDSMOBILE • SAAB • HYUNDAI Telegraph • At The Tel-12 Mall • Southfield 810454-3300 Monday & Thursday 9-91 -800-354-5558 74 Tues.-Wed.-Fri. 9-6 Sat. 10-4 Hamas Arrests Made In Gaza Jerusalem (JTA) — Palestinian police have arrested some 30 Hamas activists in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Pales- tine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat. Mr. Arafat announced the ar- rests after a meeting with Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Baram in Gaza. Palestinian officials said one of those arrested in the overnight sweep was just hours away from leaving for a suicide bombing mis- sion in Tel Aviv. "He had explosives and had shaved his beard," PLO official Sufayn Abu Zaide told Israel Television, adding that the Hamas member had "arranged to travel to the central bus sta- tion in Tel Aviv." "He planned to blow himself up at 3 a.m.", Mr. Zaide added. The arrests, which resulted in part from intelligence informa- tion provided by Israel, came as Palestinian security officials were searching for Yehiya Ayash, ac- cording to Israeli sources. Mr. Ayash, known as "The En- gineer" for his expertise with ex- plosives, is a Hamas militant believed to be the mastermind be- hind several suicide bombings in Israel perpetrated by Hamas. Israel Radio quoted a Pales- tinian police source as saying the search for Ayash continues. The announcement of the ar- rests by the Palestinian police came days after Israeli security officials disclosed that they had infiltrated Hamas cells in the West Bank and had arrested dozens of Hamas operatives there and in eastern Jerusalem. The arrests were described by Israeli officials as dealing a se- vere blow to Hamas' terror oper- ations against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Meanwhile, Israel eased the closure it had imposed on the self- rule enclave of Jericho in the West Bank, allowing women, children and men older than 35 to leave. The partial lifting of the clo- sure came after hundreds of Jeri- cho residents rioted at an army roadblock at one of the entrances to the city. Demonstrators burned an Is- raeli flag and hurled stones at Is- raeli border police, injuring three of them. Israel sealed off Jericho from the rest of the West Bank on Aug. 23, after Palestinian officials ar- rested two members of the Is- lamic fundamentalist Hamas movement who had fled there. They were believed to have helped plan the Aug. 21 suicide bombing of a bus in Jerusalem. Israeli security sources said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had imposed the closure to pres- sure the Palestinian Authority to hand over the two Hamas mem- bers, who were tried and sen- tenced to jail terms by a Palestinian military court in Gaza. POW Killings Query Rejected Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's at- torney general has determined that too much time has elapsed to allow for the prosecution of Is- raeli soldiers who may have been involved in the alleged execution of Egyptian prisoners of war. Michael Ben-Yair, in a state- ment issued by the Justice Min- istry, called the alleged killings of Egyptian POWs during the 1956 Sinai Campaign and the 1967 Six-Day War "unlawful and intolerable." But Israel's 20-year statute of limitations for criminal acts had expired, the attorney general added. "As a result, there is no legal possibility of bringing to trial any- one involved in incidents that took place almost 40 years ago, of 28 years ago," Mr. Ben-Yair said in the statement. In a letter to Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Mr. Ben-Yair said he had reached the decision after reviewing appeals he had re- ceived from public figures and cit- izens calling for an investigation into the incidents from both wars. The controversy over the fate of Egyptian POWs surfaced ear- lier this month, when several Is- raeli veterans and historians came forward with claims that they had witnessed or partici- pated in the killings during the 1956 and 1967 wars. An Israeli historian purported that some 200 Israeli POWs had been killed by Egyptian troops during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The disclosures regarding the 1956 and 1967 wars prompted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to call on Israel to in- vestigate and prosecute those sol- diers responsible for killing Egyptian POWs. Mr. Mubarak, interviewed on Israeli television, said the investigations could pre- vent a crisis between the two countries. He also said he was ready to look into reports that Egyptian soldiers had killed Israeli POWs. "I am prepared to investigate the reports about the murder of Israeli soldiers," he said.