Power Surrendered For Peace? RESIDENTIAL-COMMERCIAL DESIGN INBECON BUILD We can deliver anything under the sun... Shop Sherwood for your Florida home! Sherwood Now Offers Free Delivery and Set-up in South Florida! * Fine designer furniture * Interior design service * Floor co\ erings * WindoNN treatments * Accessories Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime Min- ister Shimon Peres drew wide- spread criticism from opposition leaders after he said that Israel would give up its nuclear capa- bility in exchange for regional peace. In remarks to Israeli newspa- per editors in Tel Aviv, Mr. Peres said that Israel would be willing to "give up the atom" if it were able to achieve peace with its Arab neighbors. "Give me peace, we will give up the nuclear capability. That's the whole story," he said. Mr. Peres refused to say whether he was referring specif- ically to Israeli nuclear weapons — the existence of which Israeli officials have refused to confirm or deny. But he added that Israel want- ed to keep its neighbors guessing whether it had nuclear weapons, saying that this in itself served as a deterrent. "As long as the suspicion itself can serve as a deterrent weapon, let them suspect," he said. Opposition leaders, along with some media commentators, crit- icized Mr. Peres for what they said was careless talk, and for go- ing too far to appease the Arabs. The Likud Party issued a statement saying, "The ease with which Peres volunteers to dis- mantle Israel's nuclear potential is additional testimony to his il- lusion of a new Middle East in which this government is im- prisoned." Knesset member Rehavam Ze'evi, of the far-right Moledet Party, lashed out at Mr. Peres for endangering national secu- rity in the face of what he said were ongoing nuclear develop- ment programs in Iraq, Iran and Libya. Egyptian-Israeli tension over the nuclear issue reemerged when Foreign Minister Ehud Barak visited Cairo to meet with Egyptian officials. During a news conference, Mr. Barak and Egyptian For- eign Minister Amre Moussa openly sparred over the issue. Mr. Barak, who was in Egypt for discussions about the re- sumption of peace negotiations with Syria, said that Israel's po- tential nuclear arsenal was not relevant to current develop- ments in the region. Mr. Moussa, in turn, said the issue was crucial to the future of the Middle East. Mr. Moussa threatened that Egypt would boycott multilat- eral talks on regional disarma- ment and security if Israel's nuclear program was not in- cluded in the agenda, Israel Television reported. The matter came up despite an agreement reached earlier this year between Egypt and Is- rael to put the issue aside for at least a year. Egypt has in the past protest- ed Israel's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Court Bars Interrogation Force Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's High Court of Justice has temporarily barred agents with the country's domestic security service from using physical force when inter- rogating a Palestinian suspect. The temporary injunction was issued by the court in response to a petition submitted by Abed Al-Balbisi, a resident of the Gaza Strip who is a suspected activist with the fundamentalist Islam- ic Jihad movement. The court ordered the state representative to explain within seven days why using physical force against Al-Balbisi was nec- essary. The Israeli government previ- ously gave the security service special permission to use mod- erate physical force when inter- rogating suspected Islamic militants. The interrogation methods were justified as a necessary part of Israel's ongoing battle against terrorists. Publicity.Deadlines 664-11 Orchard Lake Road at N1aple in West Bloomfield NIon-Thur-Fri 10-9 • Tue-Wed-Sat 10-6 • Sun 12-5 810 855-1600 The normal deadline for local news and publicity items is noon Thurs- day, eight days prior to issue date. The deadline for birth announce- ments is 10 a.m. Monday, four days prior to issue date; out-of-town obituaries, 10 a.m. Tuesday, three days prior to issue date.