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NATION/WORLD

Arafat and Sharon split over talks

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel and the Palestini-
ans argued yesterday over conditions needed to
begin truce talks, while Israeli tanks entered the
West Bank city of Ramallah in a retaliatory raid,
provoking a shootout that killed one Palestinian
and one Israeli soldier.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said truce
talks could begin only after two full days with no
Palestinian attacks. But Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat rejected that demand, saying the violence
was caused by Israel's incursions into Palestinian
territory.
"If absolute quiet lasts 48 continuous hours,
our foreign minister will meet with Arafat in
order to advance the cease-fire," Sharon told a
special session of parliament, convened to show
solidarity with the United States following last
week's terror attacks.
Arafat, speaking in Gaza City, said: "We are
committed to the cease fire. We are ready for
political dialogue any time, any place."
During the past year of Mideast fighting, sev-
eral efforts to arrange a cease-fire have failed. A
meeting between Arafat and Israeli Foreign Min-
ister Shimon Peres that had been tentatively set
for Sunday was called off after Sharon objected,
saying opening truce talks now "would give
Arafat legitimacy as a good guy."

President Bush called Sharon on Friday to urge
him to begin the talks soon. U.S. officials believe
calming Israeli-Palestinian tensions is important
to their efforts to enlist Arab states in an interna-
tional anti-terrorism coalition following the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penta-
gon.
Arab states have been upset with U.S. policy in
the Mideast, urging the United States to take a
tougher line with their Israeli allies.
However, Sharon appeared to be resisting the
American calls for truce talks with Arafat,
believing that he should instead be isolated and
branded a terrorist leader. Most of his Cabinet
agrees.
"We should remember that the one who gave
legitimacy dozens of years ago for the hijacking
of planes was Arafat," said Sharon.
Radical Palestinian groups carried out numer-
ous airline hijackings in the early 1970s.
Sharon has also compared Arafat to accused
terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, the lead-
ing suspect in the attacks in the United States.
The Israeli tank incursion in Ramallah,
launched in the early hours yesterday, came in
response to a shooting attack in Jerusalem late
Saturday that killed one Israeli and injured anoth-
er, the army said.

NEWS IN BRIEF
HEADLINES FROMI AROUND THE WORLD
CHEYENNE, Wyoming
Eight student athletes killed in crash
A sports-utility vehicle collided head-on with a pickup truck early yesterday
killing eight cross-country runners from the University of Wyoming.
Highway Patrol Sgt. Pete Townsend said the SUV carrying the athletes collided
with a one-ton pickup truck at 1:30 a.m. yesterday about 17 miles south of Laramie.
All seven passengers of the SUV were ejected. They and the driver died at the
scene.
Jay Fromkin, a University of Wyoming spokesman, said he did not know where
the students were going.
"We believe they just got together," he said. "All the athletic meets were canceled
over weekend, they may have been just out for the day."
The driver of the pickup truck, Clinton Haskins, 21, of Maybel, Colo., was in
serious condition, Townsend said.
Townsend said only Haskins was wearing a seat belt.
Those killed were driver Nicholas J. Schabron, 20, of Laramie; Justin Lambert-
Belanger, 20, of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; Kyle N. Johnson, 20, of Riverton;
Kevin L. Salverson, 19, of Cheyenne; Shane E. Shatto, 19, of Douglas; Joshua D.
Jones, 22, of Laramie; Morgan McLeland, 21, of Gillette; and Cody B. Brown, 21,
of Hudson, Colo.
PORT ISABEL, Texas
Five dead in S. Padre Island bridge collapse
Safety concerns yesterday delayed the work to recover victims missing since
barges smashed a section out of a major bridge and dropped cars 85 feet into a
shipping channel, killing at least five people.
The impact of the barges hitting a piling knocked two adjacent 80-foot seg-
ments of the Queen Isabella Causeway into the Laguna Madre channel early Sat-
urday. The bridge is the only link between the mainland and the popular South
Padre Island resorts on the Gulf of Mexico.
A third 80-foot section of the bridge collapsed Saturday afternoon, suspending
recovery work indefinitely while engineers evaluated the structural integrity of
remaining sections of the four-lane bridge, said Adrian Rivera, spokesman for
the Texas Department of Public Safety.
"There's a concern with the structure and we don't want to put divers at risk,"
Rivera said early yesterday.
An unknown number of people were missing in the 50-foot-deep Laguna
Madre, part of the Intracoastal Waterway shipping route along the Gulf Coast,
officials said. Thirteen people were rescued. The waterway was closed.

AP PHOTO
Some 150 Palestinians burn Israeli flags in front of the United
Nations building in downtown Beirut yesterday, protesting the
continued fighting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Pale stinian s sup pre ss crowd cove rage

The Washington Post
JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat's Pale'stinian
Authority is trying to suppress broadcast images and
photos of Palestinians glorifying the terrorist attacks
on the United States and hailing their suspected mas-
termind, exiled Saudi financier Osama bin Laden.
Palestinian officials have told local representatives
of foreign news agencies and television stations on
several occasions that their employees' safety could be
jeopardized if videotapes showing Palestinians cele-
brating the attacks were aired. Broadcast news organi-
zations operating in the Palestinian-ruled portions of
the West Bank and Gaza Strip have complied.
The suppression of the images is part of a concerted
campaign by Arafat and his lieutenants to avoid being
perceived in the West as part of the international terror-

ist scourge. Having sided with Iraq during the Persian
Gulf War, the Palestinians are eager to avoid a similar
political blunder this time, analysts say.
Palestinian officials acknowledge suppressing the
images, arguing that they distorted actual public
opinion and would be used by Israel to mount a
smear campaign against Arafat and his government.
"These measures were not against the freedom of
the press but in order to ensure our national security
and our national interest," said Yasser Abed Rabbo,
the Palestinian information minister. "We will not
permit a few kids here or there to smear the real face
of the Palestinians. This is a real insult to our people
and our nation."
Meanwhile, Arafat was filmed donating blood for
the victims of the attacks in Washington and New
York, and he seemed suddenly more receptive to nego-

tiations with the Israelis. Palestinian schoolchildren
were made to stand in silence to commemorate the
American victims, Palestinian officials and journalists
signed a petition of sympathy and the Palestinian Leg-
islative Council met in a special session to express its
grief. Palestinians also held a candlelight vigil outside
the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem.
Still, many Palestinians deeply resent the United
States for supporting Israel and supplying it with
weapons that have been used against them in the past
year's Middle East violence. On several occasions
since Tuesday, those anti-American sentiments have
burst into public view.
Hours after the attacks Tuesday, Associated Press
Television videotaped a small group of Palestini-
ans, some of them children, rejoicing in East
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MESA, Arizona
Attacks on Arab
Americans worsen
An Indian-immigrant gas station
owner was shot to death and a
Lebanese-American clerk was target-
ed, but not injured, by gunfire at anoth-
er Mesa gas station, police said
yesterday.
Shots were also fired at a home
where a family of Afghani descent
live, authorities said.
Frank Roque, 42, was charged with
attempted murder in two of the three
attacks Saturday, and police were
investigating the possibility that the
crimes were linked to Tuesday's terror
attacks in New York and Washington.
Around the country, several appar-
ent backlash attacks and threats have
been reported against people of Mid-
dle Eastern descent.
The East Valley Tribune reported
that Roque shouted, "I stand for Amer-
ica all the way;" as he was handcuffed
Saturday night.
MIAMI, Florida
Tropical storm
leaves Florida dark
Tropical Storm Gabrielle headed
out to sea Saturday after a drenching,
daylong passage across the Florida
peninsula that at its peak left a half
million homes and businesses in the
dark.
Nearly 160,000 homes and business-
es remained without power Saturday
night. Utilities said they expected to
have all service restored last night.

At 1I p.m., Gabrielle was 150 miles
south-southeast of Cape Fear, N.C.,
and was heading northeast at 14 mph.
Winds had increased to 60 mph, but
the rainbands had moved offshore.
"It's holding its own; it's not getting
any weaker;" said Stacy Stewart, a hur-
ricane specialist at the National Hurri-
cane Center. "But other than some
storm surge flooding, we don't see any
threat to the United States mainland
now that the system has moved off the
Florida coast."
BOGOTA, Colombia
Ri ht-wing faction
kil s 11 in Colombia
Members of a right-wing paramili-
tary group raided a Colombian village
early yesterday and killed at least 11
people, authorities said.
National Police spokeswoman Jenny
Alvarado said up to 15 people may have
been executed in the early morning mas-
sacre near the township;of Falan,;some
74 miles west of the capital, Bogota.
Fighters from the United Self-
Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC,
killed the villagers after accusing them
of working with leftist guerrillas, said
Tolima Police Col. Ciro Chitiva.
Authorities from the attorney gener-
al's office and the government's human
rights office were heading to the
region in Tolima state to investigate.
Police said four people were badly
injured in the massacre.
The U.S. State Department last week
placed the 8,000-strong AUC on its list
of worldwide terrorist organizations.
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