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Barak, rafat to meet i Pars
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Palestinian gunmen bat-
tied Israeli soldiers yesteray at isolated army posts
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that have degener-
ated into virtual free-fire zones, as both sides defied
a cease-fire call on the eve of a U.S. attempt to sal-
vage peacemaking.
Yesterday's death toll of five was the lowest
since the fighting began last week. In addition, 206
people were injured, according to the Palestinians.
Overall, 56 people have died and at least 1,300 have
been wounded, the vast majority Palestinian.
"The results have been very painful," Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak said, adding that he
had called on Israel's security forces "to make a
supreme effort to prevent further casualties."
Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat head
to Paris today in hopes that Secretary of State Mad-
eleine Albright can help end the fighting and revive
peace talks. The two also have agreed to meet in
Egypt with President Hosni Mubarak tomorrow.
Barak, meanwhile, was battling for political sur-
vival at home, trying to appease Arab legislators who
are threatening to topple his government over the
harsh crackdown on rioters in Israel's Arab towns.
The internal rebellion, the worst since Israel's found-
ing 52 years ago, has blocked highways and closed
schools, paralyzing large parts of northern Israel.
With the Israelis blasting away with heavy weap-
ons, such as rockets launched from helicopters,
and with the Palestinians routinely firing automatic
rifles, the intensity of the fighting sometimes resem-
bles a war and has surpassed levels seen during the
1987-93 Palestinian uprising and three days of fire-
fights in 1996.
"I have been dealing with such riots since 1987
and ... there has never been anything on this level
- not when it comes to clashes and certainly not
when it comes to the use of weapons," said Yisrael
Yitzhak, commander of Israel's paramilitary border
police in the West Bank.
The heaviest clashes yesterday were again in the
chaotic West Bank and Gaza Strip, where a hastily
arranged cease-fire quickly unraveled at a pair of
chronic trouble spots.
Palestinian television broadcast an appeal in
Hebrew to Israeli soldiers not to open fire, and
a senior Palestinian official said an international
inquiry into Israel's actions would be a condition of
reviving the peace talks.
"We think that the Israeli crimes committed
against our people attacked the heart of the peace
process," said Nabil Abourdeneh, a top aide to
Arafat. But Barak's office said he "totally rejected
the call for an international investigation."
At one point late yesterday, the Paris talks were
almost called off, after Palestinian negotiator Nabil
Shaath reportedly said Arafat had no intention of
meeting with Barak in Paris. Barak informed the
Americans that in this case, he would not go to
Paris, the prime minister's office said.
The prime minister only relented after he was
informed by U.S. mediators that Arafat was ready
to see Barak, the statement said. Arafat spokesman
Nabil Abourdeneh has said that for now the Pales-
tinian leader only planned to meet separately with
Albright, but that a three-way session - Arafat-
Barak-Albright - was possible.
Israeli troops, backed by a helicopter gunship,
traded gunfire with Palestinians at an army outpost
near the remote Jewish settlement of Netzarim in
the Gaza Strip, part of an on-and-off battle that's
been running for days.
Palestinian rock throwers dropped face-down in
the streets, seeking cover amid sustained blasts
of automatic rifle fire. Shortly afterward, wailing
ambulances arrived to take away the casualties.
One man's head was mutilated by an Israeli
rocket, and his fellow Palestinians picked up parts
of his brain and waved their bloodstained hands in
the air.
In the West Bank town of Nablus, besieged Israeli
forces also called in helicopter fire to drive back
Palestinians shooting on the tiny Israeli enclave of
Joseph's Tomb.
After an emotional funeral for a 15-year-old Pal-
estinian boy, Palestinians headed directly to the
Israeli outpost. Several gunmen dashed to the edge
of the compound and raised their rifles to shoot
over the stone wall surrounding the tomb.
Youths relied on'black smoke from burning tires
to provide cover as they darted toward. the wall
and hurled firebombs toward the tomb, believed by
some to hold the remains of the biblical patriarch.
Supreme Court looks at drug roadblocks
WASHINGTON - A new tactic being used by police to wage the war on
drugs - stopping cars and circling them with dogs that can sniff for narcotics -
is in serious constitutional doubt. But yesterday, the Supreme Court did little to
clear it up.
For the first half of a lively one-hour hearing, drug roadblocks appeared to be
doomed. Justices criticized the tactic, raising the possibility that police would
turn next to stopping pedestrians and subjecting them to canine inspection. *
But the second half-hour was a different story: The new technique abruptly
seemed to regain constitutional respectability. Justice after justice suggested that
if the police first asked to see a driver's license and registration, then the dog
sniff might pose no constitutional problem.
For police and motorists, these were only preliminary signs of the court's lean-
ing. The justices will debate the issue at length and in private over the next few
months, thendecide. But yesterday's public discussion made it appear that a final
ruling won't come easy.
Police in Indianapolis, determined "to interrupt the flow of illegal narcotics
through Indianapolis," began using drug roadblocks two years ago. The city ran
six such roadblocks before motorists who had been stopped challenged tr
constitutionality.
Clinton proposes
efficient appliances
WASHINGTON -Afterasummer
of brownouts, the Clinton administra-
tion proposed efficiency standards yes-
terday that would require new home
central air conditioners and heat pumps
to use 20 to 30 percent less electricity.
The increased cost of the improve-
ments - $274 more for the air units
and $486 for a typical heat pump -
would be more than offset by con-
sumers' electricity savings over time,
Energy Department officials said.
"By reducing electricity costs we
are helping consumers save money,"
said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson,
who announced the proposal that is
expected to be finalized later this year.
He said the new standards - along
with more stringent efficiency require-
ments for four other appliances already
announced or about to be proposed -
will also ease the threat of summer
brownouts and help cut pollution linked
to climate change. -
Separately, the department will pro-
Milosevic wants
opposition arrested
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Esca-
lating the Yugoslav crisis, President
Slobodan Milosevic's government yes-
terday ordered the arrest of leaders of
one of the strikes launched to drive
him from power.
The announcement by the Belgrade
prosecutor followed a government
statement warning of "special mea-
sures" against those responsible for the
wave of strikes and blockades called
to force Milosevic to accept defeat in
Sept. 24 elections.
The arrest order raised fears that
Milosevic may resort to the army and
police to hold on to power, despite calls
at home and abroad. for him to step
down in favor of challenger Vojislav
Kostunica.
The opposition showed no signs of
backing down and has called on Yugo-
slavs to come to Belgrade on Thurs-
day for a final push to drive Milosevic
from power.
Strikes spread to a key copper mine,
and 50.000 demonstrators took to the
pose this week that clothes washers be
required to use 35 percent less water
and energy beginning in 2007.
These high-efficiency washers are
expected to cost $240 more than
today's washers, but the additional cost
is expected to be recouped in seven
years through energy and water sav-
ings, the department estimated.
Massive amounts of
spandex heisted
LOS ANGELES - The masked
intruders burst into Ace Knitting Co.
just before II p.m.
They stuck a pistol to the head of
the lone employee, bound his wrists
with shoelaces, then sped away with a
truckload of booty.
The target of their carefully wo*
scheme - Bolts of spandex fabric.
Armed gangs have stolen more than
$2 million worth of the springy yarn
and fabric from downtown textile
mills over the last year, police say,
making Los Angeles the city with
the greatest amount of spandex fabric
banditry.
streets in Yugoslavia's two largest cities
- 20,000 in Belgrade and 30,000 in
Novi Sad, while barricades were up
around the central town of Cacak.
In the capital, an estimated 20,000
people chanting "the police are with
us" marched toward Milosevic's resi-
dence. Hundreds of riot police tui
them away without incident.
Unifacation festival
marred by bombing
DRESDEN, Germany - Germany
celebrated 10 years as one nation yes-
terday in a city rebuilding symbols of
its pre-World War I splendor, but a
bombing darkened the festive moo
After a summer marked by reW-
gent neo-Nazi violence, the firebomb-
ing of a synagogue in Duesseldorf,
nearly 500 miles to the west, lent new
urgency to concerns about the ugly
side of united Germany.
Police said unknown assailants
tossed as many as three Molotov cock-
tails at the synagogue's front doorjust
before midnight Monday.
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