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' X69 Month SALE or PRICE '20542* 26H pkg., 4x4, auto, powerful I 90 horse, in-line 6 engine, air, deep tinted sunscreen glass, dual power mirrors, power widows & locks, alum. wheels, full floor consols, leather wrap wheel, roof rack, keyless entry, cruise, AM/FM cassette, rainbow of colors to choose from. •$1,650 Due at Lease Inception • 35 Lease Payments Left • I 5,000 Miles per year • .Total of 45,000 miles Since "gu, 6700 Highland Rd. (M-59) 1955 1■•■■ =1/1. RosE (across from Alpine Ski Village) (810) 889-8989 Hours: Mon. & Thurs. 8:30am-9:00pm Tues., Wed., Fri. 8:30am-6:00pm Service, parts & body shop Mon. 7-7, Tues.-Fri. 7-6 Photo may not represent actual vehicle. Sale includes incoming & in- CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH JEEP EAGLE stock vehicles only. Previous sales excluded. All prices include all fac- tory to dealer incentives. "Subject to lender's lease approval. Lease payment based on 36 mo. closed end lease. Leasee is responsible for S1650 out of pocket and includes first payment and SO security dep. Add 6% use tax to monthly payment plus plates. Customer has option to purchase vehicle at lease end at price determined at lease inception. To get total obligation multiply payment x term. 15,000 miles per year average with 15c per mile excess charge. 'All sale prices plus tax, title, doc, dest. & rebates. •Subject to Chryslers College Graduate Program approval. Sale ends 11-08-96 here was no objective rea- son why Israel and the Palestinians had to reach agreement on the rede- ployment of Israeli troops from Hebron early this week. But that didn't stop the accusations from flying and the pundits from pon- tificating. Yes, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole would like to have known one way or the other before the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election. Yes, Yas- sir Arafat was leaving on the fate- ful Monday to shake the hands of the kings and presidents of Eu- rope and stay abroad most of the week. But despite the late-night phone calls from Mr. Clinton and King Hussein of Jordan, the last exasperated shuttle by the Amer- ican mediator, Dennis Ross, the Palestinian president and Binyamin Netanyahu failed to tie up the loose ends. Mr. Arafat flew off to Norway, Mr. Ross for Wash- ington. The failure to agree on the se- curity arrangements for the 450 Jewish militants living in the heart of the last West Bank city still under occupation was dan- gerous not because of a deadline missed, but because every addi- tional day makes it harder for the Likud Prime Minister to deliver. The carnage precipitated in September by Israel's opening of an archaeological tunnel along- side the Temple Mount in Jerusalem only strengthened Mr. Arafat's hand in the Hebron ne- gotiations. He exploited it to dri- ve as hard a bargain as possible. He may also have been making Mr. Netanyahu sweat in revenge for his months of humiliation. Armchair pundits suspected that Mr. Arafat was playing for time in the hope that a re-elected President Clinton would take the gloves off and impose a pro-Pales- tinian solution. If so, he was play- ing with fire. The protracted negotiations have given the settlers time to mo- bilize opposition to a Hebron re- deployment, a euphemism for military withdrawal from 85 per- cent of the city, and to buy up an arsenal of automatic rifles and hand grenades from the Israeli underworld. Their 150,000 Arab neighbors are smuggling in weapons too. The settlers' Channel Seven ra- dio station is constantly exhort- ing Mr. Netanyahu not to "reward the murderers." The chances of an orderly transition from Israeli to Palestinian rule are diminish- ing daily. Likud and National Religious Party ministers, spearheaded by Benny Begin and Ariel Sharon, are distancing themselves from their leader. Mr. Begin, who has not swallowed the Oslo agree- ments, told a local television in- terviewer: "Arafat is still the enemy, the PLO is still the ene- my." Right-wing Knesset back- benchers, led by Uzi Landau, the hardline chairman of the foreign affairs and defense committee, are bracing to revolt. Hanan Porat, a founder of the Gush Emunim set- tlement campaign, is rallying his NRP parliamentary colleagues. Even the prime minister's brother-in-law resigned from the Likud and moved in a blaze of publicity to the Jewish quarter of Hebron. Hagai Ben-Artzi, an Or- thodox Jew who lobbied national religious rabbis to support Mr. Netanyahu's election, accused him of "totally betraying his com- mitment to the voter" even before a deal was sealed. Mr. Ben-Artzi, who left his home in the Beth El settlement, north of Jerusalem, for Hebron's Avraham Avinu complex, said he had set himself the goal of thwart- ing "the treacherous act which a Jewish Government is about to per- petrate in Hebron." If it was nec- essary to overthrow the Government, he told the tabloid daily Ma'ariv, he would take part in it. Settlement leaders from He- bron and its Jewish satellite sub- urb of Kiryat Arba were unappeased by briefings on the proposed agreement by Mr. Ne- tanyahu and his military com- manders. Moshe Levinger, the charismatic rabbi who led the first settlement band there in 1968, told Major-General Oren Shahor, the Government's West Bank coordinator: "This agreement strangles us. Baruch Goldstein and Yigal Amir did what they did because they felt strangled. We maintained re- straint for years among the He- bron settlers, but I cannot promise you that we will be able to control our public in the fu- ture." Lest we forget, Baruch Gold- stein, an American-born settler physician, gunned down 29 Mus- lims at prayer in the Cave of the Patriarchs mosque in February, 1994; Yigal Amir assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin exactly a year ago. The embers that fanned their flames of fury seem to not have diminished. [1]