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Hamas leader wants to stop militant attacks
From Daily Wire Servces
JERUSALEM - Sheik Ahmad
Yassin, jailed spiritual leader of the
Hamas Islamic movement, is pushing
for the militant group to both stop its
military attacks on Israelis and com-
pete in Palestinian elections, an Israeli
lawmaker said yesterday.
Yassin still opposes the Israeli-Pales-
tinian 1993 peace accord in principle but
acknowledges that it has changed politi-
cal reality, said parliamentarian Talab
Sanna, of the Arab Democratic Party.
"I feel very optimistic after meeting
with Sheik Yassin, who made clear to
me that the Oslo (peace) accord is the
new reality which must be respected,"
Sanna said. "He told me that he feared
that a continuation of military attacks
on Israel would lead to conflict in the
streets among Palestinians."
Sanna met Wednesday with the
partly paralyzed Yassin, who has been
held in an Israeli jail since 1989.
Yassin reportedly said that he has
66I feel very optimistic after meeting
with Sheika Yassin" f
- Talab Sanna
Arab Democratic Party
approved a 16-point draft agreement
reached between Hamas and the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization that is due
to be finalized next month in Sudan
during a summit between Hamas and
PLO leaders.
A Hamas-PLO accord would be a
political triumph for PLO leader Yasser
Arafat, neutralizing his most important
opposition' as he prepares to expand
Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank
and to hold elections for a Palestinian
self-governing council.
Palestinianpolitical analysts say that
once Hamas decides tojoin the political
process, it will be nearly impossible for
any of the smaller, left-wing opposition
groups to sit out the elections.
If all the opposition groups opt to com-
pete, Arafat will have succeeded in rede-
fining the rules of Palestinian politics.
He will have forced the various fac-
tions into a test of political strength that
Palestinian analysts say he is bound to
win.
"Arafat is in very good shape," said
Khalil Shikaki, apolitical scientistwho
conducts public opinion polls for an
independent think tank in the West Bank
city of Nablus. "Nobody can compete
with him in the presidential elections,
and his organization, Fatah, stands to
do very well in the elections for the
legislative council."
Arafat has said he hopes to hold elec-
tions before Jan. 22. Palestinians in the
West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza will
elect a self-governing council and a
president of the Palestinian Executive
Authority.
It will be the first time Palestinians
have had a national elected legislature
and president.
Shikaki said that Hamas' efforts to
reach an accord with Arafat are based
on a hard political calculation that their
only chance for surviving as a political
opposition lies in competing in the elec-
tions.
"They have been looking at our pub-
lic opinion polls," he said.
. Both Shikaki and other Palestinian
pollsters now predict that Hamas prob-
ably would capture only about 10 per-
cent of the vote, although Hamas lead-
ers insist their share will be more like
30 percent.
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within a few years.
Flint campus Chancellor Charlie
Nelms said, however, that while re-
cruitment andaretention efforts are m-
portant, they are not what the Univer-
sity will have to look at in the future.
"I feel that we are headed in the right
direction," Nelms said at the regents'
meeting yesterday. "But it is not just
enough to recruit. We must make some
effort to help the minorities achieve
success while at school and beyond.
This is our next task."
Nelms saitlthe Flint campus has felt
the effects of the Michigan Mandate
with a large influx of black students in
the past couple of years.
Ruby Ridge case leads to tighter roles
WASHINGTON - In an extraordinary display of contrition, FBI Direc
Louis J. Freeh said yesterday that the 1992 Ruby Ridge, Idaho, siege was "a ser
of terribly flawed law enforcement operations with tragic consequences"
vowed to ensure that something similar will "never happen again."
Although Freeh did not head the FBI in 1992 when an anti-governm
fugitive's wife and 14-year-old son and a deputy marshal were killed in the Ru
Ridge siege, he expressed regret for overreaction there by law enforcemr
officials and for later promoting an official who had a major role in the episo
During testimony before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, Fre
said that it had been a "mistake" to elevate Larry Potts to deputy director soon af
censuring him for a management failure at Ruby Ridge.
"It was a grave error on my part," Freeh said. "I'm paying a price for it."
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) chairman of the panel, said that the blame for t
Potts promotion goes even higher than Freeh, citing Attorney General Janet Rer
who approved the appointment.
"The attorney general of the United States is in a position to say 'no,"' Specc
said, as the subcommittee wound up its hearings. "The attorney general is:
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BOSNIA
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government "masterfully" .used the
media to foster ethnic hatred.
.The Serbs established news media
under their own control, he said, creat-
ing their own TV channels, which could
reach almost all of Bosnia.
"These stations were hate-monger-
ing stations," Gjelten said. He said Serb'
control of TV channels would be like
David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan
taking control of all U.S. news stations.
The Serbs used TV to persuade people
of the need to divide along ethnic lines,
he said. He used the example of a news-
cast that began with pictures of starv-
ing African refugees while a reporter
stated'that this is how everyone would .
look if all ethnicities continued to live
together.
"Certain key points were drivenhome
over and over again," he said. The Serb
media emphasized that the Bosnian
government was trying to impose an
Islamic state.
The media also characterized Mus-
lims as-people who were trying to im-
pose their religion on others. An ethnic
slur was included in every program,
*Gjelten said.
Gjelten also included an example of
the Serb media reporting that the Mus-
lims had a plan to "systematically
slaughter" Serb leaders.
"These are the only versions (of the
news) the (Serbs) are given," Gjelten
said. "People are given very twisted
stories of what is happening."
Not everyone agreed with Gjelten's
statements.
"That's a lie!" an audience member
shouted during Gjelten's speech. The
speech was interrupted many times by
angry audience members. Two Univer-
sity officers arrived at the amphitheater
and watched from the entranceway.
"I was definitely embarrassed at the
way he was treated," said LSA first-
year student Jennifer Bradley-Swift. She
said such "outpourings" were counter-
productive to an effective discussion of
the issues.
Gjelten's speech was part of a two-
day conference on the subject of media
coverage during the Balkan conflicts.
The conference will continue today with
three separate sessions focusing on dif-
ferent aspects of Balkans coverage.
The sessions begin at 9 a.m. and run
to 5:30 p.m. All sessions are held in the
Rackham.
supposed to be a rubber stamp."
Re ort dets U.S.
iltary problems
WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of
military housing is "unsuitable" for its
family and single residents - a pr6b-
lem that would cost the Pentagon as
much as $30 billion and take up to 40
years to solve, according to a new study
of life in uniform.
The answer: create a military housing
authority to recruit private know-how
and money to get the job done at lower
cost andin less than 10years. Noestimate
of the cash savings was available.
That is the major recommendation of
a Pentagon task force that has spent the
past year studying the living and work-i
ing conditions of the all-volunteer mili -
tary, including the amount of time troops
spend away from home, and the ser-
vices offered to their families.1
"I don't think we can count on the
(forces') morale staying high forever in 1
the face of these problems," Defense
Secretary William J. Perry said at ai
briefing yesterday. "We have to ad-t
dress them."t
It is a central tenet of current defense f
policy that if the forces are not paid and
treated properly they will quit, threF
ening the military's combat readir
"Spending to modernize force stru
ture should be appropriately balar
against spending to enhance the quali
of life in the military," said the ta
force report.
Clinton, Gore check
on Midwest econom
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The rest oft
country could learn a thing or two fro
the Midwest, President Clinton's nation
economic adviser said yesterday.
Since the beginning of the econom
recovery three years ago, the regio
has outpaced the rest of the nation i
income growth, employment and th
percentage of high-paying manufac
turing jobs, Laura D'Andrea Tyso
said after a speech to the Economi
Club of Columbus.
Clinton and Vice President Al Gor
will have a chance to see the Midwes
economy firsthand tomorrow when the:
travel to Columbus for the third in
series of regional economic confer
ences.
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foreign Ainister
MOSCOW - On the eve of depart-
ing for talks in the West, a bristly Boris
Yeltsin said yesterday that he plans to
fire his foreign ministerand vowed that
Russian troops would never serve un-
der NATO command in Bosnia.
Addressing a small group of Russian
and foreign journalists, the Russian
president blamed the Foreign Ministry
for bungling foreign policy on a num-
ber of unspecified issues and singled
out Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev
for criticism.
"I do not see any improvement in his
work. But I have not yet made a specific
decision about a new appointment. A
worthy candidate has first to be se-
lected," Yeltsin said.
"He has tried hard. So, let us not
squash him. Let him work. But my
decision will remain."
Speaking in the Kremlin's ornate
Catherine Hall, Yeltsin reiterated his
opposition to NATO leadership of the
Bosnian operation.
"We will not fight under NATO com-
mand," he told the journalists in an
interview that was broadcast on Rus-
sian television later in the day. "This is
not a NATO operation ... This is a
peacekeeping operation of the armed
forces of major. states." Russia has of
fered to commit 20,000 troops, abou
one-third of the peacekeeping force.
Brazil, U.S. company
plan joint project
BRASILIA, Brazil - Flying over the
Amazon is like skimming an ocean o
green that goes on for hours, blurred by
rising mist, then bright in the tropical sun.
From horizon to horizon, it's green
and more green. In the rain forest below
live millions of species, the Earth's
greatest treasure of biological diver-
sity, a mysterious wilderness that Bra-
zil has yet to masteror even understand
in all its immensity and complexity.
But in recent decades, the green has
begun to wilt. Millions of people have
pushed into the region, greatly worsen-
ing problems such as deforestation, ero-
sion, pollution, poverty and crime..
Now, to learn more about the Atna-
zon, to watch over and protect it,
Brazilian authorities and a U.S. com-
pany are about to launch a pioneering
project that would put the vast, vul-
nerable region under electronic sur-
veillance.
The planned cost for this project is
estimated at $1.4 billion.
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