12A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 22, 1998 NATION/WORLD Arafat demands more of West Bank from Israel k5, F : C , ,:: ;N * PLO leader arrives in Washington saying Israelis must honor agreements made in 1993 and 1995 WASHINGTON (AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, arriving here for talks with President Clinton, demanded Yes- teiday that Israel abide by its agreement to cede West Bank pd to the Palestinians. "I'm not asking for the moon; I am asking for what was signed at the White House," Arafat said, referring to 1993 and 1995peace agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israelis. Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, Arafat was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's guest for a late evening meal yesterday. He will see Clinton today. In Arabic, Arafat said his work- ing 90-minute dinner with Albright was held in a very constructive " ' not e atmosphere and that he expected any U.S. ideas to break the stale- pressuredii mate with Israel would be offered today. .jeopa rdizin Albright then went with Netanyahu to Andrews Air Force securiy. Base in suburban Maryland to see the Israeli leader off. Netanyahu, during his meetings Tuesday with Clinton, proposed only a modest withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank. He made clear yesterday that Israel would not put its own security at risk by ceding land. "We'll not ever be pres- sured into jeopardizing our security," he said after meeting with congressional leaders. Before departing from Washington, Netanyahu said in an interview taped for CNN's Larry King Live show that Clinton had asked him to weave a pullback of Israeli troops with Palestinian action against terrorists. "We worked on a number of possibilities, we haven't fin- ished that job," Netanyahu said, adding that a face-to-face meeting with Arafat was possible in the near future. "I think the United States wants to have a chance to hear him out the way they heard me out and then we'll probably meet again in this way or in other ways in a week or two," he said. "These things aren't resolved overnight." Clinton characterized his meeting with the Israeli leader as productive. "We worked with Mr. Netanyahu yesterday, exhaustively, to try to, you know, narrow the differences,, and we didn't get them all eliminated, but we made some headway," Clinton said in an interview on PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." "And we're going to work with Mr. Arafat tomorrow to try to do that. And then we're going to try to see if there's some way we can put them together.... It's not good for them to keep on fooling with this and not making progress." Arafat said he expected Israel to implement "accurately and honestly" its commitments under the agreements he signed at the White House with Netanyahu's predecessor. the late Yitzhak Rabin. State Department officials said Albright would ask Arafat to boost anti-terrorism measures, as was agreed to. "He needs to understand the linkage between any movement forward by the Israelis and the question of security," State Department spokesman James Rubin told reporters. Although the two Mideast leaders' visits overlapped by several hours, they had no plans to meet. Albright planned to meet once again with Netanyahu before his departure Wednesday night. Netanyahu. saying he remains committed to the peace process, nonetheless declared that his government is unwill- ing to ever give up large chunks of the West Bank, which he said has protected Israel's eastern border from Arab aggres- sion since the 1967 war. "If you ask us to withdraw from that wall, we know the whole peace process would collapse because Israel would revert again to a narrow band along the Mediterranean that will invite aggression and future conflict," Netanyahu said in speech at the National Press Club. "We must strike a balance between the Palestinians who live on that wall - about one million of them - and Israel's need to defend itself and defend the peace.... I believe such a balance is possible." Clinton is promoting a plan that would have Israel cede smaller rer be portions of land in phases as Palestinians, in turn, agree to Israel TO demands for concrete measures against terrorism, including turn- our ing over murder suspects. Netanyahu also is insisting that the Palestinian Authority annul its -- Yasser Arafat charter that calls for the destruc- - Y lseaer tion of Israel, a condition of the 1993 Oslo accords that started the peace process, now stalled since r I, March. U.S. officials concede both sides have a long way to go to close the gaps in exactly how much of the West Bank Israel will eventually cede to the Palestinians, who now control 27 percent but want most of the . Netanyahu's government wants to maintain control of up to half of the West Bank, including areas surrounding major Jewish settlements. "Clearly, both sides have a lot of work to do if we're going to get the peace process back on track," the State Department's Rubin said. He conceded not much progress has been made so far. "...We're in the midst of an intensive phase right now." Netanyahu claimed Israel has met its commitments under the Oslo accords and an agreement last year turning over most of Hebron to Palestinian control. But. in realitv, several issues are unresolved. Among them: Israel's promised release of about 3.000 Palestinian security prisoners. opening a "safe passage" allowing free Palestinian travel between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and opening a Palestinian airport and seaport in Gaza. The Palestinians branded Netanyahu's talks w ith Clinton a failure, saying the Israeli leader was stalling for time. "It is very clear that Netanyahu is creating artificial obsta- cles and fabricating new preconditions," Palestinian Cabinet Minister Hanan Ashrawi said in Jerusalem. Ashrawi said Arafat was approaching his talks with Clinton "with a very constructive and positive spirit." "Hew v ill deal with any American proposals that are ... aimed at implementing agreements." she said. While in Washington. Arafat may also x isit the tJ.5. H olocaust Memorial Museum. An invitation to tour the museum as a VIP was formally made Wednesday by its exec- utive committee. The museum last week had rescinded plans to invite Arafat for a VIP tour. I AP PHOTO Senior Chief Petty Officer Timothy McVeigh holds his uniform as he leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington yester- day. McVeigh is fighting the dishonorable discharge he received after the Navy found out he was gay. AOL adm-its errorInidentifying saior avybelieves ' i ay* WASHINGTON (AP) -- America Online said "human error" caused the breach of policy that disclosed to a Navy investigator the identity of a senior sailor now facing dis- missal from the service as a homosexual. "This was a case of human error under very unusual cir- cumstances," AOL Inc. said Wednesday in a one-page state- ment. "This clearly should not have happened, and we regret it."' Also yesterday. Senior Chief Petty Officer Timothy R. McVeigh moved to save his Navy career by filing a case in federal court in Washington. McVeigh charges the Navy pried into his personal affairs in violation of an electronic privacy law and the military's : don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military. The service began investigating McVeigh last fall after a Navy spouse discovered information available through AOL and apparently written by McVeigh that indicated a sexual interest in young men. McVeigh, 36, is a highly decorated senior enlisted man with 17 years in the service --three years shy of the 20 needed to retire with a pension. Hle is no rela- tion to the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "I don't have any bitterness against the Navy at all." McVeigh said outside .,'.S. District Court. "My only regret is that the Navy is unwilling to follow regulations." McVeigh, in dress uniform festooned with rows of awards and medals on his chest, stood at attention as U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin entered the courtroom. Later McVeigh changed into a business suit to speak with reporters, observ- ing a regulation against uttering public statements in uniform. McVeigh's attorney, Christopher Wolf, said the Navy "broke the law" against wrestling confidential information from online services. He also contended the Navy violated the Pentagon policy on gays in the military, which prohibits open homosexuality but bars the military from trying to dis- cover a service member's sexual orientation. Justice Department attorney David Glass argued that the 1986 law restricts online services from giving up confidential information but contains no limits on how investigators can go about seeking information. Judge Sporkin appeared to embrace this argument, noting that police routinely collect evidence volunteered to them that they would otherwise have to obtain through search warrant. He said McVeigh may have a stronger case against AOL, and Wolf said after the hearing that lie and his client "are keeping our options open with regard to (suing) AOL." Sporkin closely questioned Glass about the don't-ask, don't-tell policy. "You're saying once somebody in an electronic instrument says that they're gay, that that's enough for the Navy to go out and start these (discharge) proceedings," Sporkin said. "That's correct." Glass replied. He said the Navy investig* for who called AOL "was entirely within the bounds of the statutes.' The case may hinge on whether McVeigh's online commu- nications, none of which contained his full name, represented an open, public statement of sexuality. McVeigh has denied he is gay and told the Navy he had once been engaged and attends social events with women. The case began when McVeigh sent a routine e-mail to Helen Hajny, wife of a shipmate of McVeigh's aboard the USS Chicago, a nuclear-powered attack submarine. Mr. Hajny was serving as an onshore ombudsman for sailo aboard the sub, and she communicated regularly with McVeigh. This message, signed "Tim," was about buying presents for children of crew members for an upcoming Christmas party. Mrs. H ajny noticed that the screen name atop the message was "Boysreh." She then went to the profile page in the AOL system and found under that screen name a profile by "Tim" from Honolulu, home port of the Chicago. Under marital sta- tus, the author wrote, "gay." Under hobbies the profile page listed "driving, boy watching, collecting pictures of other young studs." The woman turned this information over to h husband, who passed it up the chain of and until the subml rine squadron commander ordered an investigation. The Navy investigator who telephoned AOL testified at McVeigh's discharge hearing that he told the AOL represen- tative he was a "third party in receipt of a fax" and wanted the full name of the sender. AOL spokeswoman Ann Brackbill challenged that account yesterday. In a telephone interview, she said that in AOLs internal inquiry, the company's representative reported the investigator "said he was a good friend" of McVeigh. 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