2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 9, 1997 NATION/WORLD MIDEAST Continued from Page 1. accused Netanyahu of having "blood on his hands" after yesterday's shootings. Arafat himself, speaking before the shooting, said Netanyahu's refusal to suspend settlement building means "he does not want peace." There were conflicting reports about the shooting in Hebron that triggered yesterday's riots. Palestinians said the attack was unprovoked, while Israelis insisted it was brought on by Palestinians who sprayed two Jewish seminary students with tear gas as they walked to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Both students had tear gas burns, police spokesperson Linda Menuchin said. The students opened fire with Uzi submachine guns, Hebron police com- mander Benny Baharon said. One shot hit Assam Arafeh in the chest, killing him, Palestinian police and hospital workers said. Desperate to quell anger over the shooting, Israeli forces announced over loudspeakers that authorities had detained both Jews in the shoot- ing. But the assurance had no effect on Palestinians' anger. Rioters lobbed gasoline bombs and rocks, injuring at least five Israeli soldiers and several Palestinian policemen. Israeli troops fired tear gas and rub- ber bullets, injuring about 100 Palestinians badly enough to require hospital treatment. One 16-year-old boy wounded in the rioting died in surgery, the metal kernel of a rubber bullet lodged in his brain. A 24-year-old man died after hours in a coma, also from a rubber bullet that pierced his eye and entered his brain, hospital workers said. i Clinton says peace must be up to Mideast Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - With the U.S. position as primary Middle East power broker possibly in jeopardy for the first time in more than two decades, President Clinton said yesterday it is up to Israel and the Palestinians "to decide whether they're willing to let the peace process go forward." Speaking in a news conference a day after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that administration aides described as often difficult, Clinton offered only the most perfunctory expression of hope that the Middle East stalemate will end any time soon. "We are prepared to do whatever we can"Clinton said, without hinting what that might be. Then he urged reporters not to conclude "that I think there's no chance that we'll get it going again." "In the end," he added, "it still depends on what it always has depend- ed on. And that is the parties taking responsibility to take the risks for peace." In the past, Israel and its Arab adver- saries seldom have taken those risks without a combination of encourage- ment and pressure from Washington. In his meeting with Clinton on Monday and at a subsequent news conference, Netanyahu asserted that his govern- ment will make no additional conces- sions, because it already has done all it can be expected to do. And Palestinian officials, expressing disillusionment with U.S. mediation, have been turning to Europe for support. Palestinian representatives adopted a wait-and-see attitude after Netanyahu's Monday session. Hasan Abdel- Rahman, the Palestine Liberation Organization's representative in Washington, and Hanan Ashrawi, a member of Arafat's cabinet, met at the State Department yesterday with Dennis Ross, the administration's Middle East trouble-shooter. The meet- ing was in advance of talks expected later this week between U.S. officials and a senior Palestinian delegation. After the meeting, Ashrawi said Arafat will consider a summit meeting with Netanyahu if such a meeting is needed. At the same time, she said of the Israelis: "One side cannot behave like an occupier and like a dictator." Meanwhile, France asserted a new role for itself and the European Union in Middle East peacemaking, explain- ing that the Palestinians had appealed to the Europeans to get involved. McVeigh blamed FBI for Waco deaths DENVER - Timothy McVeigh blamed the FBI for the fire at the Branch Davidian compound that caused the "slow, torturous deaths" of families and said the public was duped because it never saw the children's "charred remains," according to his letter to a newspaper made public yesterday. The weekly Oklahoma Gazette released the letter to be excerpted in Thursday's edition as jury selection crawled along in McVeigh's trial in the Oklahoma City bombing trial. Seven people were questioned in jury selection yesterday, bringing the total to 43 since jury selection began last week. "The public never saw the Davidians' home video of their cute babies, adorable children, loving mothers or protective fathers," McVeigh wrote. "Nor did they see pictures of the charred remains of children's bodies. Therefore, they didn't care when these families died a slow, torturous death as they were gassed and burned alive at the hands of the FBI." McVeiglVs anger at the federal gov- ernment over the standoff near Waco, Texas, is well-documented, and prose- cutors have suggested that rage 'as a possible motive for the bombing, wW occurred on the second anniversary of the siege, Archbishop named to Chicago diocese CHICAGO - Archbishop Francis George of Portland, Ore., was named by Pope John Paul II yesterday as the eighth archbishop of the Ror Catholic Archdiocese of Chica where his appointment was greeted with mild surprise and cautious expres- sions of hope that he will be a unifying force like his predecessor, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. George will be formally installed as Chicago's first native-born archbishop on May 7, taking control of the nation's second largest archdiocese with- 2.3 million Roman Catholics. SARouND TH E NATI N 10 percent living in U.S. foreign born. WASHINGTON - Nearly one in 10 of those living in the United States are for- eign born, the United States' highest percentage of immigrants since the 1930s, according to a new Census Bureau report. California - by far the state with the largest immigrant population - contains 8 million foreign-born, fully a quarter of its population, the bureau said. That r - resents the highest figure for this century, as well as an almost threefold incre from the percentage in 1970. The census report, which makes no distinction between legal and illegal immi- grants, confirms the long-held image of newcomers pulling themselves up from economic hardship over time. Though large numbers of immigrants initially suffer from poverty and unemployment, those who arrived in the 1970s are now as finan- cially stable as natives, the study found. Nor is the unemployment rate inordinately high among immigrants. Just under 5 per- cent of the foreign born were out of work when the census survey was conducted in March 1996, compared with just less than 4 percent among the native-born population. The report offers vivid evidence of the changing origins of the nation's latest immigration wave. More than one-quarter were born in Mexico (27 percent),* percent came from other parts of Central America or South America, and 27 per- cent came from Asia. I , . -,. .. AROUND THE WORL Q .4 { R 4 f aI 74iiGN7( REoiCO LI f ssa 2 ouir re, peo ,. real musicpm m "nphone: 663.5800 1140 south university (above goodtime chadeys), AA China to approve human rights treaty BEIJING - In a move clearly meant to defuse an annual U.N. debate over its human rights record, China has announced it will sign one of two key human rights treaties by year's end, state-run media here said yesterday. Meeting with French Defense Minister Charles Millon on Monday, President Jiang Zemin committed China to joining the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which guarantees nondiscrimination, the right of workers to form unions and fair distribution of natural resources, the official New China News Agency reported. But the Chinese leader stopped short of endorsing a second accord on civil and political rights, viewed by human rights advocates as the more significant of the two. Nonetheless, the announcement is expected to shore up China's position as it seeks to avoid censure before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, now in session in Geneva. Denmark, backed by the United States, vowed Monday to introduce a resolution con- demning China for human rights a- es in what has become a yearly shW- down between Washington and Beijing since 1989, when the Chinese govern- ment crushed pro-democracy demon- strators in Tiananmen Square. Severe famine plagues North Korea TOKYO - People in the Nr Korean countryside are starv , underweight and "rapidly descending into the hell of a severe famine,' according to Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio), who just completed a rare three-day visit there. ''Evidence of slow starvationon a massive scale was plain wherever-we made an effort to look," Hall said, adding that conditions had deteriorated significantly since he made a similar visit last August. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. IS mon.-thurs.: 9:00a-10:O0p [1 fri. & sat.: 9:00a-11:00p r(usc -oVeces hMA~J 9 a enou~i1 Alv~e +DJIvt lt4e ..b1'we ih)'" II amitrrinrm 1S r. 11 .70 I liii ~ Ato LEVEH W .~. I r,Um.wDat hoesceo and t." WOtW r1u14 xii. OSES NANOCIt1RF1'ITH I RfOM TIEA IVONS 7 Z"99 6@OO eo e SS*@SSO.BSO@@O@O@ * 0 *- * F "e " Want to continue . many of your UMCE - computing services? * * * S - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . 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