2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 22, 2001 NATION/WORLD Israel tightens grip on West Bank JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli tanks Bethlehem, where Palestinians said moved deeper into West Bank yester- three people were killed by Israeli day, tightening their grip on biblical gunfire - a police officer and a civil- "1 17 Bethlehem and five other towns in the ian in a nearby refugee campand NEWS IN BRIEF ,l 1 i i1L'K - saws.. NUMtULJfpr - - ..psp.M.i t._5...-.. . _. ' widest operation against the Palestini- ans in years. Three Palestinians were killed yes- terday, and the Palestinian Health Min- istry said a teen-age boy wounded in fighting last month died of his wounds. The three-day-old assault, retaliation for the assassination of an Israeli Cabi- net minister by a radical PLO faction, drew harsh international criticism and set off disagreements within Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition gov- ernment. In New York, Foreign Minister Shi- mon Peres told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday that Israel does not intend to stay in the areas it entered, according to a spokesman for Israel's U.N. Mission. "We do not want to overthrow the Palestinian Authority," the spokesman quoted Peres as saying. Some members of the moderate Labor Party threatened to bolt the coalition - a move that could badly hobble the government - if the esca- lation continued. The focus of violence yesterday was another civilian when a shell landed near a hospital. Israel's army said Palestinians threw a bomb at an Israeli tank near the refugee camp, setting off an exchange of fire, and were looking into the hospital incident. The Palestinian Health Ministry also announced that 15-year-old Ahmed Abu Mandeel, who was shot in the chest during a clash with sol- diers in the Gaza Strip on Sept. 29, died of his injuries yesterday in a hos- pital in Amman, Jordan, where he had been sent for treatment. Palestinians reported two injuries in yesterday's fighting when a tank shell exploded 50 yards from the Church of- the Nativity in Bethlehem, marking the birthplace of Jesus. The Israeli mil- itary, holding tank positions several miles away, was also checking this report. Palestinian gunmen, meanwhile, opened fire from nearby Beit JAlla on the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in a disputed part of Jerusalem, Israeli police said. A few miles north of Jerusalem, HELENA, Mont. Pentagon identifies 2 killed in crash The Pentagon announced yesterday thatnKristofer Stonesifer, 28, and Spc. Jonn J. Edmunds, 20. of Cheyenne, Wyo., were the Rangers killed in Pakistan when the helicopter crashed during poor visibility as the United States launched its attacks on terrorist strongholds in Afghanistan. They served with the 75th Ranger Regiment based at Fort Benning, Ga., the Army said. Clegg said that after his junior year Stonesifer dropped out of ROTC and enlisted in the Army because the ROTC unit was not intense enough for him. Stonesifer joined the program at the Missoula campus in August 1999 and con- tinued until his enlistment in May 2000, Clegg said. "He was a very mature and focused young man, one of my top two cadets in a very challenging year, that's the junior year in an ROTC program," Clegg said. "He was a little older, and he had been around a little bit. He made better deci- sions than some of the younger cadets made." Stonesifer was "a solid student" academically and "was learning the skills required to be a second lieutenant, leadership skills," Clegg said. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) said in a release that the deaths would bring people in his state closer together "as we grieve with the families of the fallen, help those in need and stand up against our enemies." BELFAST, Northern Ireland Religious groups launch grenade attacks Rival groups of Catholics and Protestants pelted one other with homemade grenades yesterday in Belfast, and one man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound, police and residents said. More than 100 Catholics and 50 Protestants had to be dri- ven apart by police in full riot gear during the confrontation in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast, a sectarian front line plagued by rioting in recent months. Residents said shots were fired throughout the area and homemade grenades were thrown. An army bomb disposal team defused an unexploded homemade grenade after the unrest. A man who was struck by a bullet in a predominantly Catholic area underwent surgery for what was believed to be a chest wound, police said. A spokes- woman for the Royal Victoria Hospital said he was in satisfactory condition. The bullet was fired from a nearby alleyway in the Catholic section of the community, said Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan. But police "are not in a position to say which organization was responsible," he said. The violence came amid mounting speculation that the Irish Republican Army was planning to offer a disarmament gesture to ease the current crisis facing Northern Ireland's joint Catholic-Protestant government. AP PHOTO An Israeli soldier in an amored personnel carrier secures an area on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Qalqilya yesterday. 0 0 0 Israeli troops also moved farther into Ramallah -- the seat of Yasser Arafat's government in the West Bank - and took over the Palestinian Local Affairs Ministry. Israeli officials said the moves were made necessary by Arafat's inaction against militant groups refusing to honor a Sept. 26 cease-fire, and dis- missed as rhetoric Palestinian claims Arafat had outlawed such groups in recent days. Israeliofficials: Forces to withdraw WASHINGTON (AP) - Israel has told the Unit- ed States it will withdraw from its recent incursions deep into the West Bank, a commitment necessary for the prospect of a cease-fire with the Palestinians, Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday. Powell, attending an Asian-Pacific economic sum- mit in China, said he spoke earlier with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Hopefully the Israelis will be able to leave the territory that they have occupied recently," Powell said on CNN's "Late Edition." . Sharon "said he did not plan to stay in those areas. And I hope they will finish what they're doing, remove themselves as quickly as they can so that we can get back to a process that hopefully will lead to a cease-fire," Powell said. Also yesterday, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York that Israel does not intend to stay in the areas it entered, a spokesman for Israel's U.N. Mission said. Peres also was speaking yesterday night at a national meeting of the American Jewish Congress in Washington. An aide to Yasser Arafat said the Palestinian leader told Powell yesterday that Washington must pressure Israel to withdraw. "This issue will be a test (of) the willingness of the U.S. to keep its coalition, or to sacrifice the Arabs and Muslims to satisfy" Israel, said Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh. He was referring to U.S. concerns that Israeli- Palestinian fighting could hinder efforts to maintain the support of moderate Arab nations for U.S. opera- tions against Affghanistan's Taliban govemrnment and terror suspect Osama bin Laden. In the region, Israeli tanks moved deeper into West Bank in the widest operation against the Palestinians in years. Three Palestinians were killed yesterday, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said a teen-age boy wounded in fighting last month died of his wounds. The assault is in retaliation for the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister by a radical PLO faction. "The United States position over a long period of time has been to point out that targeted assassina- tions of the kind that we have seen there is not in the best interest of trying to find a way to move forward with the peace process," Powell said. Take it to the extreme ... with a career at Quicken Loans! Dynamic, cutting-edge, revolutionizing the industry ... is this the kind of company you want to work for? Interested in working for the nation's leading online lender? How about the "True to Life" probability of earning $50,000-$ 100,000 in your first year? You'll learn from the best in the business and have unlimited growth opportunities! We're Quicken Loans, powered by Intuit, maker of Quickeno and TurboTaxw software. Our people are the best top-of-the-line ... our work environment is second-to-none (where else can you wear jeans every day?) 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The voting was for the city's legisla- ture, which elects the mayor. Schroeder's Social Democrats, led by interim Mayor Klaus Wowereit, won 30.8 percent, up from 22.4 percent in the last election two years ago, according to the projections. JACKSON, Miss. Crop duster sprayed boats deliberately' Crew members who were aboard a Mississippi River tugboat when a crop duster sprayed it with an unknown sub- stance have reported no health prob- lems but were given an antibiotic as a precaution, health officials said yester- day. The towboat's skipper reported that the low-flying plane sprayed the tow- boat and barges Friday near Rosedale, Miss., then circled around and sprayed The small home where Elian Gon- zalez lived while at the center of an international custody battle opened yesterday as a shrine to honor him. Elian's wooden swing set and a picture of his mother, Elizabeth Bro- tons, who died while trying to bring him to the United States, greeted nearly 500 people who passed through the front door of Unidos en Casa Elian, or United in Elian House. Delfin Gonzalez, the boy's great- uncle and the Little Havana home's owner, said some people might not agree with opening the shrine shortly after last month's terrorist attacks, or even having a site dedicated to the boy. But he said-it filled a need in the community. "For the people that don't care, this might not be of any signifi- cance," said Gonzalez. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. a pleasure craft. Officials were still searching for the pleasure boat. "This was a deliberate act by a crop duster - this was no accident," said Kent Buckley of the Bolivar County Emergency Management Agency. Buckley said officials suspect the sprayed substance was sodium chlorate, used to defoliate cotton crops. 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