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NATION/WORLD
Violent clashes continue in West Bank
. Angeles Times
N ABLUS, West Bank - Palestinian demonstrators
,claashed with Israeli forces throughout the West Bank
yesterday, but Palestinian police intervened to contain
the violence.
I most of the West Bank cities, Palestinian youths
bujgd tires and threw stones at Israeli troops guarding
Jewish shrines. Scores of protesters were treated for rub-
ber-bullet wounds and tear-gas inhalation, but there
*waenone of the feared fatalities.
dWith Israeli tanks positioned on the edge of town,
Arab police in the Palestinian-ruled city of Nablus fired
It9 the air and formed a human chain to keep about
5,000 demonstrators away from Israeli soldiers at
Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish shrine. Israeli army chiefs had
warned that they would intervene if the Palestinians
failed to keep control at the site - as they did in
September, when six soldiers were killed during riots.
Fatah, the political organization of Palestinian
Authority President Yasser Arafat, had called for the
mass demonstrations to protest Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to launch a new
Jewish neighborhood on a hill in southeastern
Jerusalem that Israelis call Har Homa and Palestinians
call Jabal Abu Ghneim.
It was the Palestinians' 1lth consecutive day of
street skirmishes over the settlement, but yesterday's
protests were arranged to coincide with Palestinian
demonstrations in Israel marking Land Day. The day
commemorates a 1976 protest over the expropriation
of Arab-owned land in northern Israel in which six
Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops.
Sunday's protests began in the village of Beit Sahur,
near Bethlehem, when thousands of mourners
marched behind the Palestinian-flag-draped body of a
20-year-old university student shot dead in clashes
with Israeli troops the night before. Fatah distributed
color photographs of the engineering student to honor
"the martyr, the hero, Abdullah Salah."
Oklahoma bombing trial begins today
DENVER -When Oklahoma bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh goes on trial
today, there is one difference from two years ago: The case against him does not
seem nearly as solidl as it once did.
The government still cannot place the 28-year-old defendant at the site of t
explosion that killed 168 women, children and men and injured 500 others. It ca
not place in his hands the ammonium nitrate used in the bomb. It also has no con-
fession, despite the leak of several reported McVeigh "confessions" that tumbled
into media reports in recent weeks.
Witnesses have identified McVeigh as the nervous customer renting the truck
two days before the bombing. His jeans, T-shirt, knife and ear plugs reportedly
were covered with forensic evidence matching chemical components found inside
the truck. And he had ranted for years against perceived government abuses, espe-
cially the failed 1993 FBI raid at the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas.
But his defense lawyers have woven a pattern of doubt into the government's
case.
They have highlighted widespread problems of contamination at the once-fam4
FBI crime lab, where McVeigh's clothing was examined. They have conjured up con-
spiracy theories indicating others may have had a larger role in the bombing. They
have hinted about foreign terrorist cells operating in the Philippines and Europe.
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Gingrich concludes
3-day visit to ChiOna
House speaker
expresses enthusiasm
for China's future
Los Angeles Tunes
SHANGHAI, China - House
Speaker Newt Gingrich, who only a
year ago was accusing the Chinese gov-
ernment of "terrorism" in the Taiwan
Strait, bubbled with enthusiasm for
China's leadership, its economy, its his-
tory and its promise as he concluded a
three-day visit here yesterday with IlI
other members of Congress in tow.
The way to deal with China, the
Georgia Republican said during his visit,
is to smother it with a kind of diplomat-
ic tough love: "constant pressure, con-
stant friendship and constant dialogue."
"If you can be respectful but firm'
Gingrich commented as he prepared to
board a plane for Japan en route to
Taiwan, "you can get a long way with
China."
For example, Gingrich said he told
China's leaders point-blank that they
should expect a fight if they ever try to
invade Taiwan.
"I told them we will defend Taiwan.
Period," he said. "The thing that was
striking to me is that we never got into an
argument about it. They basically said
that they didn't intend to invade Taiwan,
so we would not have to defend it."
The Gingrich delegation was by far
the liveliest entourage to hit China in
recent months, if not years. In terms of
verve and audacity, it eclipsed last
week's visit by Vice President Al Gore.
Despite the conventional wisdom
that diplomatic dealings here require
extreme subtlety and tact, the Chinese
leadership - which had been trying for
more than two years to get the speaker
to visit - appeared to enjoy the "out-
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enjoyed performing it.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin used
the occasion of his meeting to declare,
rather poetically, that U.S.-China rela-
tions had entered a state of "sunshine
after the rain'
Perhaps inspired by his Chinese host,
Gingrich also waxed poetic, at one
point describing China's delicate task in
managing the July 1 return of Hong
Kong to Beijing rule as that of a giant
holding an orchid.
"Our concern," Gingrich said he told
Chinese leaders, "is how to handle the
orchid without crushing it. ... If the
giant has learned to hold the orchid,
then, in fact, you will be seen very dif-
ferently everywhere in the world."
As he prepared to leave yesterday,
Gingrich, who has been one of China's
harshest critics on matters related to
Taiwan and human rights, could not say
enough good things about his experience
in China.
At one point, he confided to a politi-
cal officer at the U.S. Embassy in
Beijing that his meetings with the
Chinese leadership were "the high
point of my public life."
Gingrich said he was leaving China
optimistic about the fate of Hong Kong,
which will be restored to mainland sov-
ereignty in July. He also theorized that
for ethnic and economic reasons, China
and Taiwan would eventually "evolve"
into one state.
And he spoke glowingly about new
freedoms that have come to the Chinese
as the result of the country's double-
digit economic growth.
"You are now dramatically freer than
you were 25 years ago' he told stu-
dents at the Foreign Affairs College of
Beijing, where he delivered a free-
wheeling lecture Saturday.
EASTER
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Catholic and Greek Orthodox, Easter
remains as a major festival," Williams
said. "Even in Protestant churches it
remains a very large presence."
Williams said those who call them-
selves Christians usually gather at
church, but many people today claim
the holiday has become commercial-
ized and may have lost some of the reli-
gious significance.
"There certainly are large laments
that this is the case," Williams said.
"Also, it is the case that very many in
the community of churches look upon
Easter as a deep spiritual movement.
"(For some) it seems to be a festival
of animals and, Easter eggs, chocolate
bunnies, and for others it is a day of deep
spiritual meditation," Williams said.
Many students who live close enough
to return home did so yesterday in order
to spend time with their families.
LSA sophomore Brock Blazo
returned to his home in Lapeer on
Friday for the holiday.
"I went to church on Saturday night'
Blazo said. "We had relatives over for
brunch on Sunday, aunts and uncles."
Blazo said the holiday for him is
mostly about gathering with family.
"It is kind of just being together,"
Blazo said. "I guess I am not really a
deeply religious person."
Art first-year student Stephen
McKenna said he went with his girl-
friend to her aunt's house in Ann Arbor.
"We spent the night at her house and
then we got up and got Easter baskets
full of jelly beans, chocolate eggs,
those little Reese's peanut butter eggs
and Milk Duds," he said.
McKenna said that even though he is
not a deeply religious person, the holi-
day still holds some religious meaning
for him.
g g HUE E_
Clinton to name
NATO commander
WASHINGTON - President
Clinton has picked Army Gen. Wesley
Clark to become the next top NATO
military commander and head of U.S.
forces in Europe, senior defense offi-
cials reported yesterday.
The appointment is arguably the sec-
ond-most significant military appoint-
ment Clinton will have to make this
year, after naming a new chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, given the con-
troversial issues confronting the United
States and its European allies, includ-
ing NATO expansion, relations with
Russia and operations in Bosnia.
"We wanted someone who's both a
soldier and a statesman, someone with
diplomatic and policy experience," a
senior Pentagon official said, adding
that formal announcement of the selec-
tion is expected today.
He was the senior military member
on the team, led by diplomat Richard
Holbrooke, that brokered the 1995
Dayton peace accords. The accords
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Cambodian leader
attacked by grenade
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -
Attackers hurled a grenade into a politi-
cal protest yesterday in an apparent
assassination attempt on Cambodia's
main opposition leader that could threat-
en the country's fragile democracy.
Eleven people died and 112 were
wounded - including one American
- in the attack that followed predic-
tions of-worsening political violence as
parties maneuver before legislative
elections planned for November 1998.
San Rainsy, head of the Khmer
National Party, was slightly injured by
shrapnel in his leg. He said he owed his
life to a bodyguard who died when he
threw himself on the political leader to
shield him.
Blood stained the grass and street
after the attack on 200 protesters out-
side the National Assembly, where
Rainsy had been leading the rally
against alleged interference in the judi-
cial system by Second Premier Hun
Sen and his Cambodian People's Party.
Rainsy blamed Hun Sen -his long-
time nemesis - for the attack, saying
the grenade was thrown by police ar-
army "terrorists" taking orders fro
Hun Sen's formerly communist party.
"Hun Sen ... should be sentenced and
arrested," said Rainsy, his clothes
soaked in blood and the left lens of his
glasses cracked.
Colombia heroin
spreads to U.S.
SAN JOSE DE LAS HERMOSAS,
Colombia - Standing waist-high in
poppy flowers, a peasant slits a plant.
bulb with a razor. Opium gum, the key
ingredient in heroin, oozes from the
gash.
But Colombians have promoted the
drug with the same entrepreneurial agili-
ty they applied to cocaine, making strong
inroads in the biggest U.S. heroin market
- the Northeast. American officials s4
they account for at least 80 percent '
heroin sales in the New York area.
- Compiled from Daily wire reports.
stopped the fighting in Bosnia and set
terms for the NATO-led peacekeeping
force.
Now head of the U.S. Southern
Command, Clark will be following i
the footsteps of two other Army ge
erals who went from there to the post
of supreme allied commander in
Europe.
Negotiator says U.S.
shortchanged Jews
WASHINGTON - The U.S. gov-
ernment shortchanged Jewish
groups seeking restitution aft*
World War I1 by at least $5.5 mil-
lion, according to the chief
American negotiator from the post-
war settlement talks.
Swiss banks have come under interna-
tional fire for holding onto Jewish assets
deposited during the war.
But the United States also failed to
turn over money deposited by Jews who
perished in the Holocaust, said Seymour
Rubin, the chief negotiator for postw*
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