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ski?- — ; r-'-.r-' ' "• FOREIGN Minister Shimon

uj«* Peres yesterday voiced dosap- pointment at what be said was Syrian President Hafez Assad’s

■ i. “pessnnfctictone’' and his refusal ; to enter Into high-level talks. .

: f Peres told reporters ■ he was t confused by Assad's statement at

a Sunday Cano news conference - that higher-level talks demanded

TT by Israel would block the road to “ peace. : ■ O

i ‘"There wQsadjsappointinent yesterday in the apj^arance of ■ Assad,. tothbe^ns^oflj^P^si-.'! mistic tone arid also because of one answex- which Was a' ttt strange," Peres saitL. ;,/■ •v

~~ “When they asked him,- ‘Why don’t you raise the leveL of the negotiations to a higher level,’ be

i said: “Tins is the disease,.not the cure.’ And I didn't understand why it is a disease.”

• A Knesset official said Peres ' .told the Foreign Afiahs and De¬ fense Committee earlier that Is¬ rael’s attempt to raise the level of negotiations .with Syria had been - turned down.

He told reporters Peres said negotiations with Syria are stale- • mated in part because Damascus has failed to keep .its agreement to hold talks between senior mili¬ tary officers.

Environment Minister Yossi, Sand, meanwhile, blamed the Syrians for the deadlock in the talks. He said Syria is being in¬ flexible on key issues.

He maintained that it is diffi¬ cult to continue negotiations un¬ der such circumstances.

Lawyer held hostage at gunpoint

rame MARCUS

SCORES of police and anti-ter¬ ror squad units cordoned off a Petah TOcva street last night, af-

- ter an armed man held his lawyer hostage over a N1S 4,500 debt.

The drama began at around 8 p.m. when Eli Gal phoned his friend, lawyer Avi Oreu, and heard him fighting with another man in his office.

According to Gal, Oren told , . the man, who was apparently re-

- cently released from prison, that it is not “worth his while to get

v into trouble” and if the fight^s

"O over NIS 4,500, he would give him the money."

fjt “put the gun down,” Gal re- mU ported Oren said. r Oren, a member of the Petah

Tikva Oty Council, is a weu- ^ known criminal lawyer.

At around 11, a police special . negotiation squad, including a

psychologist, succeeded in taik- mg to the kidnapper from anotfr-

\ er building, but police were tak- j , ing no dbaiices and kept forces at

A » low profits in the sunounttag areal By midnight, the mao haa

t not surrendered.

Undivided Jerusalem is ours - Rabin Jerusalem 3000 begins

HELEN KAYE and BILL HUTMAN

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin affixes the first signature to the Jerusalem 3000 scroll in a ceremony at the Knesset last night, as . Mayor Ehnd Olmert (center) and Knesset Speaker Shevah Weiss look on. (taac Hanuij

Fireworks show tells the tale of one city THE Jerusalem skies have sel¬ dom seen anythmg like the fire¬ works and laser extravaganza that ended the Jerusalem 3000 opening ceremonies last night • Jft was a glorious evening, nip-.

. pybat glorious, arid ina cToncQe&s sky a crescent moon-rose benign¬ ly, unaware thatit would be-a star m tiiis show.,

Crowds had been gathering in the streets surrounding the Israel Museum for hours. From the speaker system came requests to please stay behind die barriers, and -that lost children could be found in the tent provided to al¬ low parentsto pick them np.

■ Promptly at 8, dozens of rock-

HELEN KAYE

ets streaked and spun into the sky, bursting into a firmament of colored stars and rain and clouds.

“Oh, I love those, I really love those,” said a lady on the Knesset balcony, where the throng of guests oohed and aahed, proving that VIPs are like ordinary folk when it comes to fireworks.

To Kobi. Oshrat’s music, the narrator told the stony of Jerusa¬ lem and of David who made the city his capital, bringing with him the Ark of the Covenant As die narrator spoke, laser lights made moving pictures on the walls of foe museum that changed from

crimson to azure to turquoise. Spanish pyro-artist Alberto

Navarro designed it all, fitting the lights and fireworks to suit themes of Jerusalem's history.

When the narration spoke of the people coming to Jerusalem in their thousands, thousands of twinkly laser stars danced up and over the walls, while in the sky the fireworks looked like revolv¬ ing galaxies. Then, when the city was destroyed, angry lasers launched themselves onto a fiery background and rockets shrieked like white banshees into a shud¬ dering heaven.

The show ended with a blessing for peace on the rebuilt Jerusa¬ lem and in the sky a final rocket filled the horizon with a great umbrella of stars. As they spread and spread, they reached above the moon which shone through them. The ephemeral and the eternal. Now that was some spe¬ cial effect.

SAYING firmly that “undi¬ vided Jerusalem is the heart of the Jewish people and the capital of the state of Israel. Undivided Jerusalem is ours.” Prime Minister Yitz¬ hak Rabin' ended the official opening of Jerusalem 3000 at the Knesset yesterday.

Some 1.600 guests heard Rabin declare himself a Jeru¬ salemite. and that the overrid¬ ing message of the city's 3,000-year history is one of "tolerance between religions, love between peoples, under¬ standing between nations, and the penetrating aware¬ ness that there is no State of Israel without Jerusalem and no peace without Jerusalem undivided.”

Earlier. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert had declared that the city's 3,000th birthday as the Jewish capital “is an opportunity to rise above politics and PR.”

Until David came, he contin¬ ued, “Jerusalem was an unimpor¬ tant fortified town, but after him the city’s name has resounded through the centuries.” Jerusa¬ lem became the symbol of unity for the Jewish people and an ex¬ pression of hope for the future.

“Except for a short period in recent history, Jerusalem was never divided and will never be divided again,” he concluded.

Knesset Speaker Shevah Weiss also spoke.

The guests included former president Chaim Herzog, former Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek. ministers, diplomats, MKs, and churchmen. However. US Am¬ bassador Martin Indyk sent a rep¬ resentative. According to Israel Radio, organizers were told that diplomatic protocol did not re¬ quire the ambassador to attend a cultural event.

Prior to the Knesset ceremo¬ nies, the nation's leaders con¬ verged on the the site of the an¬ cient City of David, part of the village of Silwan, for its official opening as an archeological park.

Hundreds of police and border policemen were deployed in the village, which has a reputation of being a hotbed of unrest, to keep the peace. Residents watched from their rooftops and windows as the leaders and their guests arrived.

There, too. Rabin declared that “Jerusalem is the heart of the Jewish people.”

“We are opening our celebra¬ tions here, in the original City of David, to tell ourselves, and the entire world that our roots in this land predate Zionism, predate the Diaspora, and even predate the Holy Temples," Olmert said.

As the ceremony ended. Pales¬ tinians launched green, red, and white balloons, and a large PLO flag held aloft by balloons.

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SARAJEVO - Defying a NATO ultimatum, the top Bosnian Serb general yesterday refused to with¬ draw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, setting the stage' for. renewed airstrikes.

Journalists in Sarajevo saw two flashes from the direction of a Bosnian Serb armament factory north of the city last'night just after the expiry of a UN deadlme'for Serbs to lift the siege of Sarajevo.

They said they saw flashes from the direction of Vogosca shortly after the 11p.m. deadline expired. NATO aircraft could be heard in the sky at the time and in nearby Pale reporters heard loud detonations.

“No onei not even myself,' has the right to order the withdrawal," said, a letter from Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, received at UN regional head¬ quarters in Zagreb, Croatia just'3V& 2 hours before the deadline. .

The deadline passed with no sign of further moves by the Serb’to comply-with NATO demands. In Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold southeast of Sa¬ rajevo, streets were deserted as NATO jets roared overhead.

The letter, addressed to Lt- Gen. Bernard Jan¬ vier, the UN commander in former Yugoslavia,

appeared to negate one received earlier at regional UN headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia, and signed by Nikola Koljevic, chief deputy of Bosnian Serb lead¬ er Radovan Karadzic.

Koljevic, in his brief letter, signaled “overall compliance” with UN demands, including pulling back the heavy weapons menacing the Bosnian capi¬ tal, said UN officials.

Other demands were an immediate halt to attacks on Sarajevo and other UN "safe areas" and the complete freedom of movement for aid workers and UN personnel.

With Mladic, who has defied his political counter¬ parts before, refusing to bow, the prospects of re¬ newed massive airstrikes grew. Janvier and his staff were considering their response. A decision was expected within hours, said Chris Gunn ess, a UN spokesman, minutes before the deadline passed.

Asked how Mladic’s letter reflected on the NATO deadline, UN spokeswoman Leah Melnick said: “It isn't a good sign."

The letter “did not sufficiently address the condi¬ tions put forth by Gen. Janvier, nor the conditions put .forth by NATO,” she said.

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When they arrived, however, it was only to hear that the thieves had reduced their ransom de¬ mand from $6 million to $2m.

“Thank God none of us. go hungry, but we are not a wealthy communityBinyamim Tse- daka, editor of the Samaritan journal, AB, said yesterday.

According to Tsedaka, Arafat said that although he was in con¬ tact with the gang which stole the ancient manuscripts, he had no control over it.

Meanwhile, the saga took an- . other dramatic turn when the Sa¬ maritans learned that the manu¬ scripts had been smuggled across the border to a neighboring Arab

country. Tsedaka asked that the name of the country not be given, in fear that if it were, the govern¬ ment there could initiate a man¬ hunt which might cause the thieves to destroy the sacred texts.

However, he did say that the thieves had smuggled an un¬ named member of the Samaritan community across the border so that he could see for himself that the two manuscripts were intact.

Tsedaka said that the two works are both more than 700 years old. One is a scroll and the other a codex. He said that no -monetary value can be put on such works, which are priceless for the members of the communi¬ ty, but noted that other Samari¬ tan manuscripts from private col¬ lections have fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction.

He also noted that even if the members of the community could come up with the kind of money demanded by the thieves, both

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Rabin and Peres tour Hebron HERB KBNON PRIME Minister Yitzhak Rabin

and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres toured Hebron yesterday to get a close look at the security situation prior-to reaching an agreement with the Palestinians on IDF redeployment in the city.

Hebron is one of four major issues holding up an interim au¬ tonomy agreement, the others being prisoners, water, and land management

Peres and Rabin were accom¬ panied by OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Dan Biran, CXI Judea and Samaria Maj.-Gen. <3abi Ofir, and Maj.-Gen. Danny Ya- tom, the prime minister's military aide.

The group visited military in¬ stallations, the roads in the area, and the Machpela Cave.

Noam Amon, the leader of the Jewish settlement in the city, said the settlers did not know about the two-hour visit in advance.

Amon added that the settlers were not asked to meet with the

delegation. Rabin and Peres flew to He¬

bron by helicopter. Israeli and Palestinian negotia¬

tors have not been able to reach agreement an redeployment in Hebron, with the Palestinians de¬ manding that soldiers only man six Jewish compounds, and Israel demanding to keep troops in oth¬ er parts of the city, as well as along access roads.

The main road through He¬ bron links the Jewish settlements in the Hebron Hills - including Beit Hagai, Otniel, Pnei Hever, and Beit Yatir - with Kiryat Arba.

Meanwhile, talk of either di¬ viding Hebron or evacuating its Jewish residents has some He¬ bron settlers talking about mas¬ sive resistance, and others warn¬ ing of unprecedented violence.

“If the government decides to uproot the Jews, thousands of

Jews from all over the country win come and help defend us,” said Amon. “They will defend us with all their strength.”

He would not spell out exactly whai this means, but said, “the Jewish people will not let the gov¬ ernment destroy Hebron.”

He said it is impossible to di¬ vide the city, and have the DDF staticned only in the Jewish sections.

“Yon need access to a wide area and to the roads,” he said. -

“If a soldier is sitting in one house, a terrorist can shoot at him fiom a home across the road. It won't work,” he said.

Responding to recent state¬ ments by Housing Minister Bin- yamin Ben-Eliezer that Hebron's Jews should be removed, Amon said that by advocating the evic¬ tion of people based on their “race or religion,” Ben-Eliezer is giving approval to the eviction of

Arabs. “This is not a one way street,”

he said. “If you can evict Jews because they are Jews, you can evict Arabs because they are Ar¬ abs. He should not be surprised when under the next government someone uses his argument to justify evicting Arabs.”

Baruch Marzcl, former head of Kach and a resident of Tel Rn- meida in Hebron, said attempts to evict the Jews or divide die city would lead to violence between Jews and Arabs that '‘would make everyone forget Baruch Goldstein.”

“I know the Jews hem, and I know die Arabs,” Maizel said. “There woald be unprecedented bloodshed.'

At least one Hebron Jewish resident said he hopes the gov¬ ernment goes through with plans either to'divide the city or evict the settlers, saying this would, cre¬ ate a level of violence that would, put an end to the peace process.

PM convenes crucial meeting on Hebron ALON PfNKAS

OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Dan Biran is expected to reiterate his reservations over security in Hebron in the context of the impend¬ ing Israeli-Palestinian agreement ar a high-level meeting scheduled for Thursday in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Diplomatic sources confirmed last night that Rabin called the meet¬ ing in a last ditch effort to find a viable solution for IDF redeployment in the city, when Palestinian self-rule is extended to the West Bank.

Hebron remains a contentious issue impeding conclusion of an agreement Israeli offers have been so far not only met with Palestinian opposition, but perhaps more emphatically with harsh reservations from Biran.

Biran has depicted the agreement over Hebron as untenable and has said that the IDF must either remain deployed in the entire Hebron area, or the Jewish residents of the city must be relocated to neighbor¬ ing Kiryai Arba.

He maintains that coexistence between militant settlers in Tel Rumeida and Beit Romano and the Palestinian population is unrealis¬ tic, and that the army would not be able id prevent friction that would

inevitably lead to violence. A source close to Biran said that the he is so frustrated by the

proposals that he actually considered telling Rabin he would not be responsible for their implementation unless they are reformulated. Biran especially objects to the division of security between dm IDF and the Palestinian Police, and has argued that partial redeployment in the heart of Hebron would make it impossible to provide security for both Jews and Palestinians.

“Biran has said privately that he plans to retire by year’s end after being passed over for OC Intelligence,” one source said. “I doubt he will resign over the agreement, because many of his reservations were taken very seriously by Rabin, with the support of Chief of General Staff AmnOn 1 iplrm-Shahalr ”

But if he thinks Israel’s Hebron proposal is still untenable after Thursday’s meeting, it is likely that Biran will consider early retirement

The IDF Spokesman last night issued a denial of a Channel 2 news report which stated Biran intended to resign.

11 PA offices said operating in Jerusalem ELEVEN Palestinian Authority institutions have been operating in Jerusalem recently, in viola¬ tion of the Oslo accord, accord¬ ing to Peace Watch* an indepen¬ dent organization established to monitor its implementation.

Peace Watch officials said yes¬ terday that this is up from the seven institutions operating six months ago. The 12 include the three institutions which have pledged to cut ties with die PA.

“According to Article 5 of An¬ nex II to the Declaration of Prin¬ ciples, as well as Article ID (6) of the Cairo Agreement, the offices of the PA must be located only in Gaza or Jericho, pending the in¬ auguration of foe elected Pales¬ tinian Council. Thus the presence of PA institutions in Jerusalem constitutes a violation of the agreements,” Peace Watch offi¬ cials said.

Noting the secret letter sent by Foreign Minister Shimon Feres to the late Norwegian foreign minis¬ ter Johan Jorgen Holst on Octo¬ ber 11 1993 - the eve of the sign¬ ing of the DOP - promising that Israel would encourage the con¬ tinued existence of Palestinian in¬ stitutions operating in Jerusalem, Peace Watch’s legal adviser nonetheless concluded that pre¬ existing Palestinian institutions in the city which have become PA

Five months for not paying taxes

A STORE owner who evaded taxes for four years was given a five-month prison sentence and fined NIS 25,000 by the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Ehud Kamin refused to pay taxes from 2990-1993 for ideolog¬ ical reasons on the NIS 304,840 in income he earned from his jew¬ elry, gift and toy store. I&n

CORRECTION The summer camp attended by Palestinian girls in Gaza was sponsored by Interns for Peace and not as stated in a photo cap¬ tion in Thursday's paper. '

Jerusalem Post Staff

offices violate the prohibition. Peace Watch’s legal adviser

said Peres had himself explained to the group -that his letter deals with municipal institutions serv¬ ing the Arab population of Jern- sJem, not political or govern¬ ment bodies.

The legal adviser added that “relevant clauses in the DOP and Gaza-Jericho Agreement on the prohibition of the location of PA offices outside of Jericho and Gaza, being an integral part of the public and mutual commit¬ ments undertaken by Israel and the PLO, take precedence over Peres’s letter, which was a unilat¬ eral undertaking sent in secret to a third party outside of the frame¬ work of the Israel-FLO agreements.”

The 11 institutions are the Pal¬ estinian Ministry of Religious Af¬ fairs; Palestinian Energy Center; Office of the Mufti of Jerusalem; Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruc¬ tion; Orient House; Municipal Council of East Jerusalem; Pales¬ tinian Institute for the Wounded; Palestinian Housing Council; Pal¬ estinian Bureau of Statistics; Pal¬ estinian Broadcasting Corpora¬ tion; and the Palestinian Health Council.

Man dies

in collision A TRUCK and a car collided at the entrance to Rabat yesterday, and the car’s driver. Sheikh Jnma Jianda, 61, was (tilled. Police said the track was driving on the main road, and hit the left side of Jian- da’s car.

In Ramat Gan, 26 people were lightly injured when two buses collided at 6:35 am.

Thirty-two people were injured - nine of them -moderately - near Anatot, on the Jernsalem-Mishor Adumim Road, when a Jordan- bound bus with passengers from the Gaza Strip lost its brakes and hit an oncoming car. (Itim)

In its report. Peace Watch out¬ lined the connections between the various institutions and the PA

The Municipal Council of East Jerusalem, the report noted, for example, is the East Jerusalem Municipal Council, which had been subordinate to Jordan prior to the Six-Day War, as reconsti¬ tuted under orders given by PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in early June. The PA funded the re¬ sumption of its activities.

The council is directly subordi¬ nate to the PA according to its head, Dr. Amin Majaj, and is reportedly providing residents of Jerusalem with some municipal services, although Peace Watch said it has no independent confir¬ mation of this.

The Palestinian Housing Coun¬ cil is already offering mortgages of S10,000-330,000 to Arab resi¬ dents of Jerusalem, out of its total mortgage budget of S2J million sponsored by the PA, Peace Watch said.

Among criteria used by Peace Watch to link the institutions to the PA were the role of the insti¬ tution and its activities; where its funding comes from; whether its functionaries have official PA po¬ sitions; and external signs ap¬ pearing in the institution’s offices or on printed material.

Judea, Samaria schools left unguarded

JACOB DALLAL and STEVE RODAN

SCHOOLS in Judea and Samaria have been left unprotected be¬ cause of a dispute between police and the IDF over who is responsi¬ ble for guarding educational insti¬ tutions in the territories.

In the Binyamin region, schools did not have any guards, with parents fearing for their chil¬ dren’s safety.

The police spokesman for the Judea and Samaria region said the police are not responsible for guarding schools in the territories.

“From the police point of view the same [private] guards that were in place last year, also apply for this year. The IDF is responsi¬ ble for security in the area,” the spokesman said, suggesting to ask the army.

The IDF spokesman said that it had been decided at a meeting on the matter a week ago, attended by the security officer of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, that Judea and Samaria district police would be responsible for provid¬ ing security “at least at the same level as last year”.

Hanegbi: Rabin held

46 polls at taxpayers’

expense SARAH HONKS

UKUD MK Tzahi Hanegbi yes¬ terday published a list of 46 pub¬ lic opinion polls conducted by the Prime Minister’s Office which be says are really political surveys that cost taxpayers NIS 1 million.

Hanegbi received the list from the PM’s office several months ago by order of the High Court of Justice. He petitioned the court (o put an end to die polling and, despite the government’s objec¬ tions, the court ordered that the full list be turned over to him.

The list, Hanegbi told The Je¬ rusalem Post last night, “more than bears out my initial conten¬ tion about the blatantly political nature of the polling

Hanegbi said the polls exam¬ ined such issues as the prime min¬ ister’s image after certain media appearances, or what the public chinks about the co-opting of var¬ ious parties to the coalition.

Hanegfri, who served as former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir’s bureau chief, argues that he knows “from close personal knowledge that such polls were never conducted in the Shamir administration, nor in any previ¬ ous administration. In fact, the Likud governments never con¬ ducted polls at afl. To make mat¬ ters worse, the Rabin govern¬ ment hired the Labor Party’s pollster Kalman Gayer as a rivfl servant at quite a high salary to conduct these polls.”

Former director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office Shimon Sheves, however, claims that “these polls are totally on the np- and-up. There is nothing whatev¬ er the matter with them. They are conducted because this govern¬ ment is sensitive to what the pub¬ lic thinks. It cares.”

Hanegbi retorted that “we care about public funds being grossly misused. The High Court is to rule ou my petition in a few weeks and I ask that Labor re¬ store the funds to the state trea¬ sury, and pay for its polls out of its political funding allotments.”

Hanegbi explained that he only released his list now because “I had been asked by the govern¬ ment to give them time on the grounds chat they expected policy to change due to Sheves leaving his office. Since what I wanted was for the polls to cease, I agreed to hold off. However, when months passed and foe pre¬ vious practices continued, I de¬ cided to make foe list public"

We sorrowfully announce the passing of our beloved

The funeral will take place on Tuesday, September 5,1995, at 11:00 a.m.

at the Sanhedria Funeral Parlour leaving for Har Hamenuhot, Jerusalem.

' Her son, Gad Ehrlich Family and Friends

We deeply mourn the untimely death of our beloved brother and unde

MARK LITTWIN Gary Ltttwln and family Lynn MIchaelson and family

Tuesday, September 5, 1996 The: Jerusalem Post

Peres: I hope to resolve issues when I meet Arafat this week

“THERE are still 18 subjects on which we have yet to reach agreement with foe Palestin¬ ians and which are holding up an Oslo 2 accord,” Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was quoted as telling foe Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday.

Among those differences, many of which are marginal, he said there are three or four important matters, such as foe release of security prisoners, the future, of foe Jewish com¬ munity in Hebron, the holy places, and ejections for a Pal¬ estinian self-rule authority. '

Feres said there is a good chance some of these differ¬ ences can be resolved when he meets later in foe week with Palestinian Authority Chair¬ man Yasser Arafat in Taba, then finalized in the Eilat talks.

The session was particularly stormy, even though there

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were fewer committee mem¬ bers than usual in attendance.

Likud leader Binyamin Ne¬ tanyahu ripped Into Peres. “There certainly is a new Mid¬ dle East,” he said, “bid foe PLO controls it Look at foe fear throughout the country at the opening of foe school year because of parents’ concern at* the security situation in the schools.”

He then slammed the gov¬ ernment for transferring MS 58 milliou to the PA as a return of value-added taxes paid by Palestinians, and said that over the next five years, Israel will have to retain NIS 250m. This, he stressed, at a time when there is no money for school security.

He accused Peres of being more concerned with the PLO’s interests.

“I weary more about Isra¬

el’s interests than you do,” Peres responded. “The mon¬ ey we are returning is money we collected from them. Their tax cofiectkm is going better than we expected”

Feres also had a bitter ex¬ change with the; Likud’s Ze'cv Begin, who catted Mm “foe FLO’S lawyer/.*

Founding - his briefcase on the table, Peres shouted bade “Pm the lawyer for foe Jewish people. For two years, you have been trying to block the peace process. You’re the lawyer fin- those who want to destroy foe peace, and you’re certainly the lawyer for Hamas:” .

There was also a shooting match between Ariel Sharon (Liked) and Ron Cohen (Meretz), with Sharon callings Cohen “a servant of the Ar-

. abs,” and Cohen calling Shar¬ on “me of those-who gave birth to terrorism.”

Dan EKyabn, 19, one of three border policemen suspected of robbing and shooting a Palestinian jeweler near Hebron waits in Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The border poBcemen were remanded for six days. (Brian Headier)

HAMAS yesterday accused one of its members of being an Israeli agent planted among them with the aim of assassinating senior Palestinian

Hamas accused Walid Ham- diyah of being a GSS agent Hamdiyah, known as a street leader from foe Shajaiyah neigh¬ borhood of Gaza City, is current¬ ly under arrest by the Palestinian security police.

The Hamas charge, in a leaflet issued in Gaza, came after Pales¬ tinian police found a hit list of Palestinian Authority officials as well as weapons when they ar¬ rested a group of Hamas mem¬ bers last week. Hamdiyah may have been one of those arrested during foe raid.

The Palestinian Police said one of those arrested was on his way to blow himself op at Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station.

The police findings and the Ha¬ mas charges could create serious new tension between the Pales¬ tinian Authority and Hamas, un¬ less the police take seriously the charges of Israeli collusion in foe assassination of Palestinian officials.

Hamas had long ago promised

JON IMMANUEL

not to attack Palestinian officials. By shifting the blame for an-ap¬ parent serin of assassinations to a purported Israeli agent from the ranks of Hamas appears to be a desperate bid to save face.

Khaled Amayreh, a pro-Ha¬ mas Hebron journalist, said Hamdiyah was one of several de¬ portees amomg the 415 expelled to South Lebanon in December 1992 considered as planted Israeli agents.

Hamdiyah reportedly “con¬ fessed” to being an Israeli agent who helped foe General Security Service track down Imad Afcel, a leading Izrariin Kassam gunman, who was ambushed and killed early last year.

Attempts to restart a PA-Ha- mas dialogue were abandoned in July after a new outbreak of Ha¬ mas violence starting with an at¬ tempted bombing in Netzarim, the Ramat Gan bus bombing and finally the Jerusalem bus bombing.

Yesterday, the Associated Press reported receiving a fax from Hamas saying “Reassess¬ ment, reevaluation and rear¬

rangement of priorities have ^be¬ come an nrgem.national duty — to set up a new strategy for dealing with events in accordance with overriding Palestinian interests.” It did not say whether Hamas should make the reassessment, the PA should change or that both should meet somewhere in

foe middle. *3t is too early to decide that,

but many elements in Hamas want to see what political role if any they can pilay as Oslo 2 ap¬ proaches,” said Amayreh.

While foe political wing of Ha¬ mas tong ago agreed that there should be no violence in areas under Palestinian authority, the PA has now demanded that Ha¬ mas end violence not only in Gaza but everywhere, a demand which it has been difficult for Ha¬ mas to accept on principle.

Hamas sources however have attempted to overleap the vio¬ lence issue with talk of reconcilia¬ tion or rapprochement. This week' some of its well-known leaders have spoken of a gap be¬ tween the “political” and “mili¬ tary” wings of Hamas, saying that Kassam gets its orders directly from abroad.

Gulf states expected at Amman summit DAVID MAKOVSKY

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THERE are signs of an upswing in the participation by Persian Gulf countries in the upcoming Middle East economic summit in Amman. This is due to Jordan’s potential rapprochement with the Gulf states, a conference organiz¬ er told a press conference yesterday.

While careful not to be drawn into regional political issues, Gregory Blatt, of the Geneva- based World Economic Comer}, who is organizing the Amman parley on October 29-31 said, “We are getting very positive signs from the Guff, perhaps due to Jordan's new profile.”

He voiced confidence that Sau¬ di Arabia and Kuwait would be represented, along with foe other four Gulf states that have tended to be more willing to attend events in which Israel participates.

Blatt noted that Jordanian For¬ eign Minister Karim Abdul Ka- bariti has made various trips to all Gulf states in a bid to obtain opti¬ mal participation.

The World Economic Council, which was also behind last year’s Casablanca regional business conference, is dedicated to the idea of bringing together govern¬ mental and business leaders to work together for economic

international parley in Davos, Switzerland, which .it sees as the model for the conference in Amman.

Blatt said he expects 60 coun¬ tries to send at least their trade ministers to Amman, and be¬ lieves 700 companies would be in

not as a sign of enthusiasm for regional economic cooperation, but as signaling a desire fin eco¬ nomic control

. In keeping with this theme, Economics Minister Yossi who is coordinating the Israeli delegation, promised Blatt earli¬ er this week that Israel will not

attendance. “We expect half to come from the region, and the other half to come from outside the region,” he said.

Syria and Lebanon are widely expected to boycott the confer¬ ence, as they did m Casablanca, as a signal that there, can be no normalization with Israel until territorial issues are resolved.

Blatt suggested that all patties have learned from the Casablan¬ ca experience, where. Arabs mis¬ took foe the big Israeli delegation

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While there has; been cancer that Egypt may seek to signal dh pleasure by sending a low-rani ing delegation, Blatt sonnde confident “We have been tol that. Egyptian Foreign Minists [Amr Moasa] will be in attei danoy” he srid. - Blatt said that Egypt is one c the countriBS ‘that seeks to ha next year’s parky. The other cm tenders are Tunisia and Oman.

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; A SENIOR iicart jsingeoa ?t Pe- ; tali Tikya’s .Beilinson, Hospital ; has been arrested for allegedly ■ demanding money from patients.

Under questioning, the snr- - geon denied telling patients that

• would personally operate in return for a largestnn of money.

Bat detectives said that they, have evidence to' prove that the surgeon demanded money from at least w?o families.' '

In one case a 70-year-old wom¬ an needed a heart operation. Die surgeon allegedly told her family that he wodld personally perform the operation for a fee.

The family of a three-old-boy also cmnplained that the. surgeon, a department head, offered to perform surgery for a price.

Patients’ families, said police, .trusted his experience and repu¬ tation and preferred to pay thou¬ sands of doll?15 rather than to trust their loved ones , to junior doctors.

“There’s no need to worry, there are other. Junior, doctors who can do the operation if you can’t pay,” the surgeon reported¬ ly told one family. •

Now police believe that- they may have uncovered the tip of an iceberg, and are appealing to pa¬ tients who were' "offered treat¬ ment by senior doctors-in return for payment to come forward.

•• ' "• • :-' ■' • MosbeYa’acOT Shafir, 59, of Jerusalem, suspected of stabbing an Arab 8t the Haas Promenade on Nflinir Saturday, arrives at Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing yesterday. (Isaac Hanm)

Live liver and lung tions approved

New regulations will give hope to dozens ISRAELIS will uow be permitted to donate a lobe of (heir lungs to a patient who needs z transplant. In addition, a parent will be al¬ lowed io donate part of his liver to his children who are under 12.

These procedures were ap¬ proved by the Supreme Helsinki Committee on Human ExperimerttanotL

The panel was convened Sun¬ day night by Health Ministry Di¬ rector-General Dr. Metr Oren.

Kidney donations from a live done: have been allowed for many vesrs.

Recent successes in transplant¬ ing pans of organs bom live do¬ nors led to discussions of the is¬ sue. A number of Israelis have

JUDY SIEGEL

gone abroad io have such opera¬ tions performed.

Some 500 operations have been successfully carried out abroad in which a living relative has donated a pan of his liver to a child.

Oren appointed a small team from among the Helsinki com¬ mittee to set criteria and condi¬ tions for such donations, includ¬ ing informed consent by the donor.

As for transplants involving a Jobe of liver donated by a live donor for an adult recipient. Oren decided to delay deciding on this matter because it is as yet

only experimental, with just 25 such operations carried out abroad so far, and not all of them successful.

In exceptional cases involving a lobe of liver needed by an adult recipient from a live donor, the committee (comprising physi¬ cians, medical ethicists and reli¬ gious leaders) will meet to discuss them.

Last June, Health Minister Ephraim Sneb asked the commit¬ tee to meet urgently and approve live-donor organ transplantation, especially for cystic fibrosis pa- dents needing a lobe of a lung.

The new regulations. Such said yesterday, will give hope to doz¬ ens of patients.

resting of lice shampoos required; those that don’t work to be barred

MEMifactiirers must do their owe trials

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invites Jordanian princess to visit

MICHAL YUDELMAN

LABOR and Social Afiara . Min¬ ister Ora Nanra- yestoxlay-Javited= -q Jordan’s Princess Basina, King FfusSfcm V daughter, to'vishjfera- el, her spokesman - announced.

INamir, who heads the'Isaefi del¬ egation to the UN Conference.ao Women, met Basma jn her hotel

-suite. - Pam»it head. : of the Jordanian

delegation, accepted the invita- 'tkm warmly and spoke in support of the peace process: She assured

‘Namir of the Jordanian people’s -wholehearted support for the process. • t

During the meeting, which was described as cordial and friendly, toe two also discussed a visit of a

-delegation of Jordanian women to Israel to study issues pertain-

' ing to labor and social affairs. After the official opening of

'the conference, Namir attended a 'festive dinner sponsored by the •prime minister of China for the 185 delegation heads.

' Behind the festivities, ccnfikt "is raging between the conserva¬ tive delegations and those from

•democratic, Western states, over ■the final conference resolutions on abortion, contraception and statements on equal rights.

Israeli sources noted that the 'conservative delegates are press¬ ing, in one resolution proposal,

' to replace the term “equal rights” in marriage with the more non¬ committal “fair relations.”

NEWS IN BRIEF Grenade put on official’s car

■Mdr Amar, the head of the Lachish Regional Council, found a stun grenade attached to his car yesterday morning.

Amar found the grenade attached to the exhaust pipe as be left the council’s office in 'Moshay Nehora at about 830 a.m. He called police, and a sapper removed the grenade.

•" He saidhe had no idea who placed the grenade, but saidshots had previously been fired at him and his tires slashed. He attributed

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Burglar freezes dog to shut it up: ,; An Ashdod man, convicted of burglary and of potting tiie dog hefound in toe apartment he was robbing into the freezer, was sentenced yesterday id a year in prison and 18 months suspended by Ashdod Magistrate’s Court.

■ According to the indictment, David Cohen, 22, stole a car last September, drove to an apartment in the town, forced open a window, and started looking for valuables. The family dog, however, started to bark loudly and to nip at bis heels, so he picked it up and put in the freezer section of the refrigerator. He then stole a VCR and several other items, loaded them in the stolen car, and drove off. him

Driver fined for not checking bus The Tel Aviv Traffic Court yesterday issued bos company driver David Ben-Yehonatan a NIS 2,000 foie and a three-month suspended sentence over two years for not doing a security check of his bus before taking on passengers.

The incident occurred on July 10 at the Dan station in north Tel Aviv. Police sappers watched Ben-Yehonatan as part of a campaign to check drivers’ security awareness. Itim

Weizman cancels tripleUS Presnfepi Eger WeizmahhasTteddeiftb-' pos^jbfie'hS'yish to Washington, planned for 'November^ sources in Washington said yesterday. This is the second time the president has pat off his trip to die US capital.

The reason was said to be the large number ofvisits by Israeli leaders to the US at that time of the year. Following last month’s bus bomb in Jerusalem, Weizman canceled a planned visit to Germany and the Czech Republic^ saying the political situation did not warrant his traveling abroad.

A spokesperson for Beil Hanassi said the decision was not linked to the eye infection that made Weizman cancel his participation yesterday in the Jerusalem 3000 celebrations. Batsheva Tsur

FOR 3e first time, the Health Ministry is requiring clinical tests on ami-head l ice preparations to prove iceir effectiveness, and those that fail the test will be barred from sale. The Jerusalem Post has ieamed.

However, the ministry has not commissioned an independent expert to perform the trials, but merely required the manufactur¬ ers themselves to test their own products.

Head lice become resistant to pesticides after several years of use, with stronger ones who sur¬ vive the chemicals breeding new generations unaffected by them.

Dr. Kosta Mumcuoglu, a para¬ sitologist at the Hebrew Universi¬ ty medical school and one of the country’s leading experts on pe¬ diculosis, argues that some anti¬ lice preparations have been al¬ lowed by the ministry to be marketed even though they have been useless for decades. As a

■'fesulE. .parents who' rise' them to :.'ri^.‘their children of bead. lice “trunk tfiy have done a good job.

JUDY SIEGEL

but the youngsters continue to be infested and to infest classmates.

The ministry confirmed that on the eve of tbe new school year, it sent letters to manufacturers of all anti-lice shampoos, sprays, creams and lotions and instructed them to conduct clinical studies over the coming year. Their de¬ tailed reports will then be studied by the ministry, which will decide whether to allow their sale. Until now, any product that was not dangerous has received a license.

Mumcuoglu has demanded that tbe ministry remove prepara¬ tions based on pennethrin from the shelves because it is “no long¬ er effective,” a declaration he bases on tests of head lice he has removed from the heads of thou¬ sands of children in kindergartens and schools.

Among the chemicals that he says are currently effective against head lice are carbaryl (as in Hafif Hadash, 'Caibacyte of Fi¬ scher Labs) and malathion (as in

Prioderm and Monocyte Lotion). However, parents should know

that lice eggs hatch within nine or 10 days after they are laid, so Priodenn's instructions to use the preparation again after three days and then six days will not get good results, says Mumcuoglu, who advises all the companies but does not work for any of them. Also effective are sprays such as Ricide or Kin-X, based on pyr- ethium (a derivative of chrysan¬ themums), but they most be ap¬ plied in an aired room and close to the child’s scalp.

The parasitologist says that parents can effectively get rid of lice by combing children’s hair with a fine-toothed metal comb daily for 10 days - without using any chemicals.

The combing breaks the para¬ sites’ legs and make it impossible for them to feed on blood from the scalp.

But unless hair conditioner is applied,, and if the hair is very long or curly, few children will sit still for such “torture.” W"

48 wedding guests still hospitalised from gas fumes FORTY-EIGHT people re¬ mained in Holon’s Woifson Hos¬ pital yesterday after inhaling gas which leaked into a Bat Yam halL

The hospitalized, who were celebrating a wedding on Sunday night when the inhalation oc¬ curred, included eleven children.

The condition of all tbe victims was described as good, and they were being kept under supervi¬

sion until it was finally deter¬ mined what the gas that had over¬ come them was.

Once this has been deter¬ mined, doctors will know if they suffered any real damage, with what medication to treat them, and whether they can be sent home.

The Environment Ministry’s Poison Treatment Unit will only

be able to definitively determine what the gas was after it receives further data and a report from the Fire Department's air-condition¬ ing engineer, who is also investi¬ gating the occurrence.

The ministry believes that die gas was carbon dioxide.

But there is as yet no explana¬ tion for how the gas got into the wedding hall. (Itim)

Eilat man, ship’s captain, recovered from ‘Mineral Dampier’ (WE of the bodies recovered re¬ cently from the wreck of the Min¬ eral Dampier has been positively identified as that Of foe ship’s captain Philippe Eyron, it was an¬ nounced yesterday.

The body of Eyron, 53, of Ei¬ lat, is expected to be flown back

’to Israel on Thursday. Transport .Minister Yisrael Kessar ex¬ pressed his condolences to Byr¬ on’s family. ..

Transport Ministry spokesman Eli Danon said all the necessary arrangements were being made in Sooth Korea, through the pons authority and tbe Israeli Embas-

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sy, to have the body flown home as quickly as possible.

Divers found tbe body of Eyron and that of another sea¬ man from the ill-fated vessel last week following the resumption of search operations after a two- week respite.

The bodies were brought ashore to South Korea, over 160 kilometers from the site in the East China Sea where foe craft sank in June after being struck in thick fog by a South Korean vesseL

Shahal visits Neveh Tirza’s new wing and urges stress on rehabilitation

An Israeli police officer in South Korea identified Eyron through personal items, including a gold medallion he wore around his neck and his watch.

Tbe other body is not that of one of the Israeli crew, but either a Filipino or Romanian seaman.

A few days ago, divers discov¬ ered another body covered in de¬ bris inside the wreck of the Min¬ eral Dampier.

They have so far been unable to recover foe body or identify it because h is trapped under a met¬

al girder and other debris. There were 27 crew members

aboard the Mineral Dampier who all went missing after it sank, nine of them Israelis, 10 Filipinos, five Romanians and three Belgians.

Seven bodies - four of them Israelis, including Eyron - have been recovered from foe sea and foe wreck itself during the search and rescue operations.

Eyron was well known to resi¬ dents of Eilat where he was port pdoi for 21 years. He was also a member of the town council.

He leaves a wife and four children.

THE Prisons Service has changed . its role to increased emphasis on rehabilitation. Police Minister Moshe Shahal said during a visa to a new drug-free wing at Neveh Tirza women’s prison yesterday.

Out of 185 inmates in tire roonr

‘trv’s only iafl for women, 70% ai drug users, said SbahaL ^

“To be inside jail is a sufficient

I punishment,” be said “We adopt an attitude of rehabiho-

'tion, and not punishment ‘ 'Although we have come a

long way during the pas: eonpto

'of years, [ am &r fern Shahal said, •*§_****?

■increasing budge* for there are still inmates in cells JES meters by three meters.

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That is .“inconceivaWe^” Shahal

said.. Shahal regretted that local

councils are stiQ reluctant to have prisons in their areas and urged foe general public to change their attitude and help those released. 41 Wo cannot ignore released pro- oners, and society should help ■ them,” he said.

MIchaJ Mot, 26, a recovering addict, nervously told a packed hall how she had started taking drags when she was 17 after she manied a violent criminal.

“I was brought np by my grandmother,1” she said. “So • when I met my husband, I

thought I had found warmth. But instead he beat me and I starting taking drugs to forget foe pain.”

Mot, serving a prison sentence for ding offenses, said the Prisons Service rehabilitation program has given her new hope.

Neveh Tirza warder Geula Hard, who left her position yes¬ terday after three years, said that when she arrived, the prison was intended “to guard inmates,” but that her “mission” had been to help them.

Said one prisoner: “After 14 years of being addicted to drags, she was foe first person to treat me like a human being and gave me foe confidence that I could stop taking drugs - even.in here.”

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BARROW, Alaska (AP) - In the 10 months since voters in Ameri¬ ca's northernmost town decided to ban booze, calls to police have dropped off and emergency room doctors have become accustomed to sleeping through the night.

But for prohibition opponents, it’s been nearly a year without the freedom to enjoy a cocktail at home.

And with another petition pending, Barrow could be tip¬ pling again in November, before the sun disappears for the winter.

About 700 residents - more than voted against the ban last year - have signed a petition call¬ ing for another vote as soon as October. The city clerk is expect¬ ed to approve the ballot question this week.

At least SO Alaska Native vil¬ lages have gone dry since the 1980s. Others have gone “damp." meaning no bars or li¬ quor stores but people can import alcohol ro drink at home.

This old whaling village of 5,000 people and 39 percent non- Narives was one of those “damp" hubs until the October 1994 vote that narrowly banned alcohol outright.

The Barrow Freedom Commit¬ tee is pushing to force a referen¬ dum to reverse the ban on alcohol.

“I believe we're going to have an overwhelming victory." said committee member Tom Nico- los, a 14-year resident.

But dryness does have its bene¬ fits. The borough's public safety department says drunken driving arrests have dropped from 73 in the six months before prohibition to nine in the six months after.

Alcohol-related jailings dropped from 239 to 29 in the same period and alcohol-related emergency room visits dwindled 118 last October to 19 in July.

Barrow's disagreement over drinking reflects, in part, a divi¬ sion between whites and Inupiat Eskimos who have inhabited this outpost for centuries.

With the nearest place to buy booze at least 400 km south, drinkers pay dearly for the indul¬ gence: A fifth of black-market vodka fetches about dlrs 150.

The public safety department has seized about 450 bottles of liquor prohibition began Nov. 1, said department chief Dennis Packer. Most alcohol, police say, is smuggled in luggage at the city’s airport.

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Kashmiri separatist car bomb kills 13 in Srinagar

KASHMIR separatists detonat¬ ed a car bomb in Srinagar yes¬ terday. killing at least 13 people in an audacious attack in the center of the heavily fortified city.

The Hizbul Mujaheddin group claimed responsibility in a telephone call to a Western news agency and said the bomb was aimed at Indian soldiers outside a bank in the city centre.

Witnesses said five of the dead appeared to be soldiers.

Officials at the government- run hospital where casualties were brought said 20 wounded were admitted, and three were in surgery. One died on arrival.

The bomb went off in a car near a police station and outside a branch of the government- owned State Bank of India, where Indian soldiers fighting the separatist insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir congregate at the beginning of every month to collect their pay.

A bomb placed on a scooter in almost exactly the same location

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SRINAGAR, India

in late 1992 killed two people and shopkeepers had been pressing authorities for pay¬ ments to the soldiers to be made elsewhere.

The explosion was just down the road from Ahdoo's, one of the only hotels left open in the city and packed full of foreign journalists covering the Kash¬ mir hostage crisis, now in its third month.

Wimesses said there was an army truck parked in the area when the bomb went off at 1.30 p.m. Three cars and five scoot¬ ers were destroyed.

The wheels had been blown off one car and the tin roofs of shops opposite were riddled with holes from the debris.

“I was going to buy food when I heard a huge explosion. The next thing I knew I was lying on the ground with injuries to my neck and stomach," hotel work¬

er Ghulam Qadir Khan said at the hospital where he was being treated.

“It’s only the poor like me who sufferhe said.

Witnesses saw 12 bodies after the blast, two of them women and five others dressed in mili¬ tary uniform. Some of the corpses were badly mutilated.

Security forces arrived quick¬ ly and carried off the bodies. Police cordoned off the area saying there could be another bomb.

The blast was preceded by a grenade explosion the guerrillas said was meant to warn civilians away from the car bomb.

Police and hospital sources say more than 20,000 people have been killed in the five-year insurgency by separatist mili¬ tants in Jammu and Kashmir,

British, Irish ministers in crucial peace talks DUBLIN (Reuter) - British and Irish government ministers held two hours of talks yesterday to pave the way for a summit they hope will end months of dead¬ lock in the Northern Ireland

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Spring and Britain’s Northern Ireland secretary. Sir Patrick Mayhew, met in Dublin at the start of a crucial week for An¬ glo-Irish efforts to convene all- party talks on a lasting political settlement.

The two ministers said their talks bad helped prepare for to¬ morrow's summit but declined to give details.

“The preparations for Wednesday’s meeting are al¬ most complete but we shall be working right up until the talks begft." Spring told reporters.

Mayhew. Britain's top politi¬ cal representative in Northern Ireland, then flew to Belfast for talks with Gerry Adams, presi¬ dent of the political wing of the IRA, Sinn Fein.

Sinn Fein, which seeks to end British rule of Northern Ireland, fears that tomorrow's summit talks will signal no real change to British insistence that the Irish Republican Army disarm before Sinn Fein can be invited to all-party talks.

Adams said at the weekend

that it would be folly for Britain to go “eyeball to eyeball" with guerrillas who fought British rule for 25 years and declared a ceasefire one year ago in the hope of getting Sinn Fein invited to new political talks.

Adams said there was no way the IRA would contemplate handing over weapons before Britain set a date for all-party talks and invited Sinn Fein and all other Northern Ireland polit¬ ical parties to attend them.

Sinn Fein and the Irish gov¬ ernment hope a date for all-par¬ ty talks can be arranged before President Bill Clinton tours Ire¬ land and Northern Ireland in late November to set the seal on US support for the peace process.

But Britain says no political group can come to the confer¬ ence table so long as it has an army of supporters still in pos¬ session of weapons it might use to resume its war at any time the discussions founder.

Irish officials say that British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart, John Bru-

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ton, will establish an interna¬ tional commission tomorrow to oversee the surrender of IRA and Protestant Loyalist weapons.

But Adams has made clear there will be no point in estab¬ lishing such a body if its brief is to take ERA arms out of service before all-party talks are launched.

George Mitchell, a former US senator who heads Clinton’s Ire¬ land Economy advisory teanl, is expected to head the commis¬ sion and involve Washington di¬ rectly in the peace process for the first time.

Sources close to the peace process said the Dublin govern¬ ment believes that a commit¬ ment by the IRA not to use its arsenal first or for, any reason other than self-defense might help break the logjam.

Protestant Loyalist gunmen, who fought for 25 years to keep Northern Ireland British, made a similar pledge this month and have called on their IRA rivals to do likewise.

The rival guerrillas called cea¬ sefires last year which have led to 12 months of rare peace but little real progress towards rec¬ onciling Protestant determina¬ tion to keep Northern Ireland British and Catholic dreams of a re-united Ireland. R

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predominantly Hindu India's only Moslem majority state.

An unusually large number of foreign journalists. Western diplomats and hostage crisis ad¬ visers are in Srinagar while ne¬ gotiations continne to secure the release of foar Western tourists held by guerrillas in the Kashmir Valley since early July.

Americans Donald Hutchings and John Childs and Britons Paul Wells and Keith Mangan were kidnapped by the AJ-Faran group on July 4 while trekking in the Himalayan region.

Childs escaped after four days and Al-Faran abducted German Dirk Hasert and Norwegian Hans Christian Ostroe. The Norwegian was found beheaded last month.

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HANOI (AP) - In a further sign of improving ties between old en¬ emies, former US President George Bush arrived yesterday for an historic - if unofficial visit to Vietnam.

Bush wifi become the first American ex-president to meet with Vietnam's Communist lead¬ ers since the Vietnam War ended in defeat for US ally South Viet¬ nam in 1975. Bush's private visit comes less than one mouth after the United States and Vietnam opened embassies in each others’ capitals. ' No serving US president has met so far with Vietnam's leaders.

US officials have played down Bush's four-day trip, but the Vietnamese are preparing to wel¬ come Bush as a state guest. He is to meet separately today with President Le Due Anh at Hanoi's presidential palace and with Prime Minister Vo Van IGet at his office, known locally as the White House.

“We’re not expecting any cere¬ mony,” Bush’s chief of staff, Jean Becker, said. “It’s going to be pretty low-key.”

Some Vietnam War veterans. Republican congressmen and Vietnamese-Americans have ob¬ jected to Bush's planned visit. They say it amounts to an unde¬ served gesture of approval for a Communist regime that violates human rights and still isn’t doing enough to help resolve the fate of 1,615 US servicemen missing here from the war.

Last week Bosh made a late. change in his schedule to travel to a site near Da Nang, in central

Vietnam, where investigators are digging for the remains of at least one missing American. Becker denied that Bush decided to visit I the MIA site in response to the negative publicity surrounding - his trip to Vietnam.

“It’s just an issue that he’s al- ; ways been concerned about,” she ' said.

Vietnam is eager to broaden - ties with the United States, espe- - dally in trade and investment. - Bush is tnrveting here to give two * speeches in a lecture series spon¬ sored by Gtibank, the first US bank to open a branch in Viet¬ nam. Becker refused, to say how much he is being paid.

BushV visit comes at a crucial - time, as “the two ad«s are look- ■ ing forward to improve relations : rather than looking to the past,” said Nguyen Ngoc Truong, edi- . tor-in-chief of the Foreign Mims-'. try newspaper World Affairs . Weekly. -

Bush, a Texas Republican, was ’ instrumental in ending 17 years of postwar estrangement between the United States and Vietnam. In 1992, just before leaving office, he - allowed US companies’to open of-.. fices and hire staff herefor the first, time since the war. That began a - warming of ties that ted to Presi-, dent Groton's removal of a US economic embargo in February 1994 and the establishment of dip-, krmatic.relations this July.

Cfintcm said he established re-• lations because Vietnam had, shown strong cooperation on the ^ MIA issue. Some Republican congressmen disagreed and have threatened to withhold funding* for the new US embassy.

EU economist blasts monetary union

. LONDON (Renter) - A top Eu¬ ropean Commission economist touched off a furore yesterday by denouncing European Union plans to create a single currency as a “confidence trick” that would increase economic insta¬ bility in the bloc.

The EU Commission imBrus-. seis immediately warned that.the. economist was under investiga-. tion for publishing his dissident opinion and might even lose bis job as head of an influential unit responsible for economic and monetary affairs.

Bernard Connolly's book con¬ taining his forthright views is not due to be published until Septem¬ ber 18.

But in the first part of a seriali¬ sation in The Times newspaper, Connolly accused Friends and German officials of agreeing a "sweetheart deal”, three years ago that committed the German central bank to give unlimited support to the French franc but not to other currencies under speculative attack.

The September 1992 deal led to the pound being forced out of the European Union’s semi-fixed exchange rate mechanism, wrote Connolly, who The Times said

had attended meetings, of the* monetary committee where key; decisions about the ERM are* taken.

British Prime Minister John; Major had been enjoying a poUti- - cal honeymoon after his unex-' peered general election victory five months earfieri unfit the ERM crisis dealt a body blow to tire credibility of his govern¬ ment's economic-’policy.

In a front-page article preview¬ ing the rest of the book. The Times said: “Connolly says that a move to full-scale monetary union would trigger an open struggle between France and Germany for the mastery, of Eu¬ rope and could ultimately lead! to war.” • .

Coonolly’s book is likely !to* provide plenty of ammunition for- anti-Europeans in Major’s Con¬ servative Party.

Major won a battle in July for the leadership of the ruling Con-, servatives after faring down his, Euro-sceptic critics in his party; who want a tougher line against' European integration. But the, sniping is expected to resume af-; ter the summer recess. j '

Antidepressant gives j; patients surprise bonus *

LONDON (Reuter) - An anti¬ depressant drug is giving patients an uplifting bonus - when they yawn, they have an orgasm.

And some patients who are over their depression have asked doctors to be allowed to go on taking the clomipramine tablets because of the side-effect, British newspapers reported yesterday.

The newspapers quoted a sci¬ entific study published in the Lat¬ est edition of New Scientist magazine.

“One woman, better after be¬ ing depressed for three months, wanted to keep taking the tqb-^ lets. She even found she could experience an orgasm by deliber¬ ately yawning,”, the New Scientist report said. >

The discovery could herak^ a new era in sexual relationships, the magazine suggested.

“People who experience ' it would presumably actively seek out the most boring person they could find at parties,” it said.

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YJ Day HONOLULU (AP) - Paying a fi¬ nal tribute to America’s aging war¬ riors, President Qinton .attended solemn religious services in a pray¬ erful search for lessons of “the" tragedy of World War II.** •

In surprisingly brief remarks capping V-J Day commemora¬ tions, Clinton said historians looking back centuries from now will say the war showed that peo¬ ple will reject repression and prejudice to fight for freedom.

“I believe the lesson will be that people, when given a choice, will not choose to live under em¬ pire; that citizens, when given a choice, will not choose to five under dictators; that people, when given the opportunity to let the better angels of their natures rise to the top, will not embrace theories of political or racial or ethnic or religious superiority,

he said. On a day filled with hymns and

hallelujahs, Clinton spoke for less than five minutes - allowing the poignant words of veterans to

resonate. The president and fiist lady

Hillary Rodham Clinton parj«i after the services. Clinton hearted to California for a two-day tnp. Mrs. Clinton left for China, where she will address an interna¬ tional women’s conference.

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PAPEETE. Tahiti (AP) - As grace prepared to set off an xm- gerground midear test yesterday. French officials lashed bade at what they called interference ^ domestic affairs by foreign poiith aans protesting in the region.

In Paris Jacques Cousteau PjMded with President Jacques Chirac to scratch the testing in French Polynesia. The popular ocean explorer said it “shows foe power of the nuclear lobby.” .

Rumors continued to fly over when France would set off.the first of seven or eight tests planned be¬ tween September and the aid of May under the Mururoa or Fanga- taufa atolls L20G km southeast of - Papeete.

Greenpeace, waging a war of nerves with France by vowing to send another protest ship into the atoll, said the blast would take place yesterday. Other sources suggested it would take place later in the week, but French authori¬ ties have refosed to give, a date.

Chirac has faced outcry by gov¬ ernments and anti-nuclear activists around the woxid since June, when the conservative president an¬ nounced the tests aimed at updat¬ ing France’s nudear arsenal and developing test technology.

French military on Sunday seized a third protest vessel off Mururoa after it violated the 22- km territorial zone, where a pro¬ test flotilla of about 10 boats cruised the' periphery.

The French yacht Kidu was tak¬ en into custody after.it crossed into zone four times despite warnings to leave the area, said Vice-Adm. Philippe Euverte, military com¬ mando- in French Polynesia.

Other boats in the flotilla claimed the Kidu bad sailed to Mururoa after running out of drinking water.

The Kidn’s seizure follows that of two Greenpeace steps for incur¬ sions into foe zone Friday - the Rainbow Warrior n and foe MV Greenpeace.

French frigates and helicopters . continued shadowing the protest flotilla, Greenpeace sakL .

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BOSNIAN Serb commander

. SCB5ral Ratko Mladic has found himself firmly feed in NATO s sights since he miscal¬ culated Western leaders’ resolve after the fall of two UN “safe havens” this summer, alliance diplomats say.

Senior NATO diplomats say foe Bosnian Serbs’ overrunning of Srebrenica and Zepa in July, along with subsequent reports of atrocities against civilians and Bosnian Moslem army troops, were “one humiliation too many”.

The US, backed by the lead¬ ing European allies, decided it had to act to restore foe much- damaged credibility of both the alliance and foe United Nations.

“The stakes were high. There

was a feeling we just could not let foe alliance continue to be damaged like this,” said a NATO diplomat.

After months of taunting by Bosnian Serbs, foe alliance qui¬ etly agreed a detailed plan of how to react to any further Serb attacks or threats on the remain¬ ing UN “safe areas”.

“We sat down with a cold, quiet determination, we walked through every detail to make sure we got it all right - no splits, no weaknesses, everyone had to be certain and happy with what could follow,” said one se¬ nior diplomat.

At the same time, Washing¬ ton - desperate to head off a Congress which wanted to lift the arms embargo against the

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Moslems - launched a new dip¬ lomatic drive for a peace accord.

NATO’s 16 members agreed to broaden the definition of what could trigger air strikes, including for the first time a sud¬ den “concentration of forces", and to widen the zone of action for possible reprisals and range of targets.

“Finally, and most important, we agreed to stop when you re¬ move the threat,” the diplomat added.

NATO sources say alliance unity on foe issue persuaded UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to agree the most

critical change of all - letting the UN decision on action to pass from its civilian to its military wing.

“NATO and UN military commanders now would turn the key together. That changed everything." an alliance source said.

NATO, which can act in for¬ mer Yugoslavia only at the re¬ quest of foe United Nations, had blamed the UN's cumber¬ some bureaucracy for the failure to respond quickly to Serb defiance.

As the summer wore on. Brit¬ ain and France and other troop-

contributing nations to the UN Protection Force withdrew their soldiers from areas where they could be taken hostage by Bos¬ nian Serbs, as had happened af¬ ter previous NATO raids.

Independent analysts say two totally unconnected events then suddenly tilted foe balance fur¬ ther away from the Serbs.

First, the Croats’ rout of the breakaway Krajina Serbs killed the dream of a Greater Serbia.

Then, foe death of three top US diplomats in an accident on the treacherous Mount Igman road into Sarajevo increased the determination of President Bill Clinton, entering a pre-election period, not to waver.

When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into Sarajevo one

week ago and killed over 30 peo¬ ple, NATO waited for the UN to point the finger at foe culprits and then blitzed the Bosnian Serbs with its biggest ever com¬ bat mission.

The battered citizens of the Bos¬ nian capital may have been sur¬ prised by the tough response, but diplomats say Mladic and foe Seibs were “even more shocked".

“They had got away with so much, they failed to sense the shift in resolve,” said the US diplomat.

He added the action would not stop until the siege of Sara¬ jevo was lifted. “There is no question of a halt before the mission's aims are achieved. We have come too far to lose it now". (Reuter)

Women’s conference opens with call for social revolution B OUlb found ill EDITH li LEPERER

BEUING

THE largest UN conference in history opened yesterday with a call for mean to join women, in a social revolution for equality - Md for governments and interna¬ tional institutions to pay for it.

“A revolution has begun,” said Gertrude MougeQa, secretary- general of the Fourth World Con¬ ference on Women. “There can be no spectators, no side-liners, no abstainers, for this is a crucial social agenda which affects all humanity.”

Some of foe world’s top wom¬ en political leaders said again and again that foe conference will come to nothing without strong follow-up - and that men must be part of the solution.

The gathering of more than 4,750 delegates from 181 coun¬ tries, the first of its kind in a decade, opened with a lavish Chi¬ nese welcoming ceremony. It passed its first day smoothly, in contrast with the controversy over Chinese policing that has dogged a parallel gathering of voluntary organizations.

By yesterday, there were signs of relaxation in Huairou, north of Beijing, where 23,000 activists from private groups have met for the past five days. ■

Police stood by quietiy as about 1,000 members of the in¬ ternational anti-war group Wom- arin^Biackprotested- sflenllyfor an -hoar -deman ding an end to violence. - .In tire only incident in Beijing. Chinese security men barred Winnie Mandela from foe wel¬ coming ceremony, saying she came late. Mandela, the es¬ tranged wife of South African President Nelson Mandela, who heads foe African National Con¬ gress Women's League, said her bus lost its way to foe Great Hall of the People.

The visit of US first lady Hilla¬ ry Rodham Qinton today and to¬ morrow could be another head¬ ache for Chinese security. Activists are planning to capital¬ ize mi her highly publicized visit by demonstrating.

But yesterday foe spotlight fi¬ nally turned to issues confronting women and foe platform of Ac¬ tion to be adopted by foe confer¬ ence to guide the women’s agen¬ da in the 21st century.

“Cementing the partnership of women and men” is critical, Mongella said.

“Women have all along strug¬ gled with their menfolk for the abolition-of slavery, the libera¬ tion of countries from colonial¬ ism, the dismantling of apartheid and foe struggle for peace. It is now foe turn of men to join wom¬ en in their struggle for equality,”

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proposals for governments, the United Nations and voluntary or¬ ganizations to alleviate women's poverty and improve health care, education and job opportunities for women. It afro proposes mea¬ sures to combat violence against women and 4b make women’s voices heard in government and in peace talks.

Mongella said the conference “must elicit commitments to ac¬ tion coupled with commitments of resources, nationally and internationally.”

Conservatives in foe West and Middle East have portrayed foe

conference as a radical, anti-fam¬ ily gathering that will endorse lib¬ eral stands on such issues as abortion.

Bhutto, the first Moslem wom¬ an prime minister, vigorously de¬ fended Islam as a moderate reli¬ gion and denounced its fundamentalist interpretations.

But she warned that the plat¬ form is “disturbing weak” on the role of the traditional family and said this could lead to distor¬ tion by opponents of women’s advancement.

Saudi Arabia’s highest reli¬ gious authority said yesterday foot the platform “seeks foe de¬ struction of foe family, and al¬ lows the unrestrained practice of adultery and other immoral acts.”

Iran's deputy minister of cul¬ ture and Islamic guidance. Mo¬ hammad Ati Taskhiri. was quoted by the Iron News as say¬ ing “so-called liberal stands” by some “pro-American and Zion¬ ist” elements at foe conference were aimed at promoting immor¬ al acts. (AP)

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PARIS (AP) - Schoolchildren freed intense security on foe first day of school yesterday while po¬ lice dismantled a 25-kg bomb, the fifth planted in three months in what apparently is a new wave of terrorism.

The explosive, placed in a pub¬ lic toilet at Place Qiarles Valiin in southern Paris, was about two blocks from the Paris Police Lab¬ oratory where previous bombs have been analyzed.

The French news agency Agence France-Presse quoted sources as saying the bomb, placed near an outdoor market, was to have exploded Sunday. A bomb made from a pressure cooker blew up Sunday at a fruit and vegetable stand at another Paris market, near the Place de la Bastille, injuring four women. But it failed to fully explode, avoiding likely extensive injuries.

Hidden'in a box and found by a maintenance worker, foe bomb found yesterday morning was made with a gas canister similar to two other bombs that exploded since July, killing seven people and injuring about 100, officials said on customary anonymity.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion fell on Algerian Moslem funda¬ mentalist extremists who have threatened France for its support of the military-backed govern¬ ment in Algiers. The Armed Is¬ lamic Group is suspected.

Meanwhile, security on the first day of fall classes yesterday was the tightest since foe last bombing wave that hit the capital in 1986, killing 13 people.

Only the parents of children in kindergarten were allowed on school grounds, all adults were closely screened and kids were told not to gather in front of their schools or leave their backpacks on foe ground. All field trips were canceled until further no¬ tice, officials said.

“The recent events are impos¬ ing the greatest vigilance on us,” explained a statement by foe Academy of Paris, which directs foe capital's school system.

Interior Minister Jean-Louis Debre held an emergency meet¬ ing with Paris Police Chief Phi¬ lippe Massoni, National Police Director Claude Gueant and oth¬ er security officials but made no statement.

Police have mounted a nation¬ wide effort to tighten security and search for suspects since the first bombing in a Paris regional sub¬ way train July 25 that killed seven people and injured 84.

After police boosted patrols and searches and covered up trash cans in subway stations, an¬ other bomb exploded on a street near the Arc de Triomphe on Aug. 17, wounding 17 people, including 11 tourists.

On Aug. 26, authorities found a bomb planted on a high-speed train track north of Lyon as French vacationers were return¬ ing home. The bomb, which like the other two was made from a gas canister filled with explosive and hexnuts. failed to go off.

Since the July bombing, au¬ thorities have also conducted tens of thousands of identity checks, deployed extra patrols and evacuated train stations, stores and museums as a result of bomb scares or threats. Metal plates have covered outdoor trash bins along heavily traveled Paris' streets after foe August blast.

Terror worries also prompted police to ask Planet Hollywood to cancel its star-studded grand opening party that was scheduled at the new theme restaurant on the Champs-Elvsees.

Investigators believe foe three bombs in July and August were planted by foe Armed Islamic Group, which is seeking to topple the Algerian government and es¬ tablish an Islamic state.

Security was also tight in Brus¬ sels yesterday for foe opening day of a trial of 13 suspected support¬ ers of foe group. About 200 po¬ lice were to be deployed around the courthouse, trash cans were removed and patrols were stepped up in subways, train sta¬ tions. the airport and embassies.

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THAT Christianity and Islam consider Je¬ rusalem a holy city may be viewed by Jews as a form of flattery. It is only

because they tried to compete with the Jewish religion and'supersede it that they claimed Jeru¬ salem as their own. The city, now routinely described as holy to the three great monotheistic religions, would have meant nothing at all had it not been central to Judaism and the capital of the Jewish nation.

Yet Jews cannot and must not forget that there is a world of difference between what Jerusalem means to them and the role the city plays in Christianity and Islam. There is nothing in the annals of mankind like the relationship between the Jewish nation and Jerusalem.

This is not only because for 3,000 years Jews have considered Jerusalem their spiritual capital and faced Jerusalem in prayer. Nor only be¬ cause there is no equivalent in history to the vow “next year in Jerusalem,” made by Jews everywhere with tenacious, hean-rending con¬ sistency for two millenia. Nor is it just because there is no other capital and holy place for Jews.

Above all, Jerusalem is unique because it is the apotheosis of the dream of return, the quin¬ tessence of the vision of rebirth which has kept the Jewish nation alive since the destruction of the Temple. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin put it aptly when, opening the celebrations of Jeru¬ salem’s 3,000th birthday yesterday at the Knes¬ set, he said, “There is no Israel without Jerusa¬ lem, and there is no peace without undivided Jerusalem, the City of Peace.”

Appropriately, he also quoted David Ben- Gurion’s statement on the occasion of the move of Israel’s government offices to the capital in 1949; “The State of Israel has always had and will always have only one capital, eternal Jeru¬ salem. This is how it was 3,000 years ago, and this is how we believe it will be for eternity.” The city is not only a physical capital. It is * ‘the heart of the Jewish people,” he stressed. In¬ deed, to deny Jerusalem's centrality in Jewish life and its role as the Jewish capital is to deny Jews their most fundamental rights as a nation.

- Other claims to the city are dwarfed by these facts of history. To strenuously point to Roman

■ and Ottoman architecture or pre-Israelite arti¬

facts found in Jerusalem as proof of the city’s universality and diversity, and to suggest that the celebration should commemorate all its in¬ habitants, beginning with the Canaamtes and Jebusites, is an insult to history and common sense - a laughable, self-deprecating bow to politically correct multi-culturalism.

For all but Jews, Jerusalem has never been

Jerusalem, still to be won anything but just another town. Except for the short-lived Crusader kingdom, no other nation has ever made the city its capital. In fact, all non-Jews have treated it as occupiers, making a special effort to destroy its Jewish character and limit, if not eliminate, freedom of worship for any religion but their own.

One way or another, they tried to emulate the Romans, who attempted to erase Jerusalem’s Jewish identity by changing its name to Aelia Capitolina. To suggest now that the city be divided again, that half of it become a capital of a Palestinian state, or that parts of it be interna¬ tionalized, is to attempt such erasure by other means.

It would have been nice bad the celebrations of Jerusalem’s 3,000th anniversary coincided with world recognition of the city as Israel's undivided capital. That no such recognition is imminent was clearly demonstrated by the ab¬ sence of the American and European ambassa¬ dors at the opening celebrations of the city’s birthday.

That the European nations have decided, with typical nasty pettiness and plain malice, to boycott the celebrations is yet another indica¬ tion that the days of the double standard are far from over. There is no other nation on earth whose capital is not recognized as such by the vast majority of the world community. Unfortu¬ nately, Jerusalem is also unique in that no Israeli government has made the recognition of the capital by the major powers topmost in its order of priorities.

Rabin concluded his speech by asserting that “undivided Jerusalem is ours. Jerusalem forev¬

er.” But no one is more aware than the premier that the battle for Jerusalem has only just begun, and that in the first skirmishes Israel has by no means been the victor.

Israel has capitulated on its demand that three Palestinian Authority governmental offices in the city be shut down. In its update on the encroachment of the PA on Jerusalem, Peace Watch yesterday revealed that there are now 11 major offices in the city connected to the PA, as opposed to seven listed six months ago. And

• despite Rabin’s vow to put an end to the illegal operations of Orient House, there is no indica- *& tion that the government intends to do anything about it

The year of celebrations begun yesterday is

intended to highlight the uniqueness of the 3,000 year bond of the Jewish people to Jerusa¬ lem. If it also reminds Jews in Israel and the Diaspora that the battle for Jerusalem is yet to be won, it will have served its purpose.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR INJTJDiaOUS CHOICE Sir, -1 notice that your collabora¬

tor, Moshe Kotin, quite frequently uses the sentence “Rabin/Peres/Bei¬ lin junta (or “gang,” "clique,” etc.) when describing our govern¬ ment, thus implying that the country is ruled by a corrupt triumvirate of dejected army officers or a bunch of thieves, Tammany-Hall style.

I shall not argue about your likes and dislikes concerning our rulers. What really puzzles me is Mr. Kahn’s choice of ministerial names when venting his animosities. In¬ deed, why davka Beilin and not Shohat, Shahal, Namir - you name him (or her), for after ah, who is Yossi Beilin? He is nobody’s emi¬ nence grise (Rabin once described him as Peres's poodle), be has prac¬ tically no influence on our country’s destinies and never sat in the inner cabineL As deputy foreign minister, he was more or less ignored by his superiors and his present position as minister of economics and planning is the one usually reserved for the people one wishes to kick upstairs.

In my opinion, Mr. Beilin is an intelligent, articulate and well- meaning public servant, apparently not over-ambitious considering the dizzy heights reached by him so far.

So if you really want to disparage the political establishment, please be more judicious in the choice of your targets.

ANDRE MOKADY.’, Ram at Gan.

LEFT-WING SLANT Sir, - The Israel Broadcasting

Authority has often been accused of having a left-wing slant in its pre¬ sentation of news and voicing of opinions.

On August 23, I watched Erev Hadash (“A New Evening”). We were shown a news dip of Prime Minister Rabin stating that the ter¬ rorists who committed the suicide attacks in Ram at Gan and Jerusalem came from Judea and Samaria. He later repeated this twice, using the abbreviation "Yosh.” The end of the program, however, Daniel Pe’er quoted Rabin as saying that the ter¬ rorists came from the West Bank.

Draw your own conclusions.

Riston Lezion. JOSEPH A. REIF

WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE?

Sir, - Should Israel-continue a so- called “peace process” in reliance upon what Arafat tells Peres, Rabin and the world in English? Or should Israel take Arafat at his "Arabic word” and stop this process imme¬ diately? On many occasions since the "handshake,” Arafat has called in Arabic for a jihad against Israel.

“Give peace a chance" and "what is the alternative" are the two most quoted arguments for con¬ tinuing this alleged road to peace with an alleged "peace” partner who repeatedly tells his people that we must continue the jihad while he is negotiating in what Peres and Ra¬ bin consider good faith.

How can any sane rational nation give control of the West Bank to anyone who calls for a holy war against Israel when he talks to his people, and talks "peace” when he is dealing with the present leaders of Israel? How can a nation rely on a leader (Peres) who declared that a tape of the June 19 Arafat speech calling for jihad was a forgery, when Arafat later admitted that the tape was accurate?

“Peace” has been given a chance, and what does Israel have to show for it so far? There have been more deaths than ever before. The PA has committed violation after violation of the Oslo agreemenL

Should a reasonable, rational Israeli expect improvement with the dives¬ titure of more land to the PA?

Unfortunately, nobody has a solu¬ tion at present to "what is the alter¬ native.” However, to give land which Israel controls to one who repeatedly promises his people a holy war against Israel is definitely not the alternative.

WILLIAM K. LANGFAN Palm Beach, Florida.

HADASSAH AWARD Sir, - In Greer Fay Cashman’s

column of August IS, she states that - the ICC was packed for the ceremo¬ ny awarding Hadassah’s prestigious award to Peres and Rabin. Not so! One half of the lower section was empty because of Hadassah women who stayed away. As a life member of Hadassah, I walked out with oth¬ ers at the presentation.

HATTIE PRUCE YAN1GER Baltimore, Md.

‘LOVE THE STRANGER’ Sir, - Tikkun editor Michael Ler-

ner attempts to buttress his attack on Rabbi Shlorao Riskin "and his fol¬ lowers" ("Poisoned wells,” Au¬ gust 20) by invoking the Torah com¬ mand to the people of Israel to “love the stranger.” His is not a new argument; it is one often used, mostly it seems by the avowedly secular (Jew and gentile) in a rather transparent attempt to get at the con¬ science of those Israelis who believe in and honor the Torah.

Lemer may quote the Bible to substantiate his beliefs when it suits him. But to maintain credibility he must also aticnowledge the prereq¬ uisites which the Torah lays down for the "stranger” to live by in order to be accepted and lovingly treated by Israel. Among these is the command that the stranger respect the law of Israel and acknowledge its applicability to himself (Exodus 12:49 and Leviticus 24:22). Leviti¬ cus IS makes it clear that those strangers who kill or otherwise dis¬ obey the law of the land must be "cut off from among the people.”

Nowhere is it written that the peo¬ ple of Israel should love the stranger who is intent on stealing their land, or those who board its buses with bombs with bombs on their bodies and murder in their eyes.

STAN GOODENOVGH Jerusalem.

OFFENSIVE STATEMENT

Sir, - Reading Shlomo Riskin’s Shdbbat Shalom of August 25,1 feel terribly offended in the name of all the innocent people, religious and nonrctigious, who were killed in Auschwitz. How could be write: "Those whose lives rested on a higher meaning, who were involved in working out a mathematical the¬ sis, or who dedicated themselves to preserving and copying segments from the Torah, generally managed to survive Auschwitz.”

BOB ENGELSMAN Jerusalem.

Sir, - Did those Jews Rabbi Ris¬ ton mentions have a greater resis¬ tance to Zyklon-B? What unfounded foolishness!

YOSEF KLEIN Savyon.

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Anti-terror handbook According to Minister Beiliir, the recent bns bombing in Jerusalem

wasn’t the last. This being so, we most do every¬

thing to foil the next attack. Secur¬ ing citizens’ lives is, after all, any government’s chief duty. Apd con¬ tinuing impotence in the face of terror could bring down this gov¬ ernment come next elections.

So what are our options? Revenge? An old-fashioned, re¬

gressive sentiment, surely, most ill- chosen in our new sophisticated dimate, ill-suited to the high moral ground we have finally achieved.

A "Zionist answer”? A new set¬ tlement for every deed of blood? We could drive home the lesson that more Arab tenor means not Jewish destruction, but ever more Jewish construction.

No, no, that’s out of the ques¬ tion. Since Oslo, we are commit¬ ted to freezing all settlement. What’s more, the mere mention of the word gives us the creeps.

Deport the inciters and organiz¬ ers? ' We can’t The 400 Hamas lead¬ ers expelled to Lebanon were the last We promised the US. And deportations would smash the peace process to smithereens.

Could we send in the army to pluck tire terrorists out of their cities of refuge?

No. It would mean fighting an all-out war against an army of 20,000 in Gaza alone. With the addition of the West Bank, they’ll be 50,000-strong. It’s not easy breaking into a densely populated urban area defended by tens of thousands of infantry. Remember Beirut, Suez?

That's not all: Within hours, all the Arab states would enter the fray. Even our most cherished peace with Jordan would collapse.

How about separation, then, like our premier promised us?

It’s just not feasible. The cost would be huge, and besides, the

ELYAKIM HA’ETZNI

entire IDF would need to do guard duty along the hundreds of kilome¬ ters of the new line. Not to speak of Jerusalem, and the political con¬ sequences of separatum there.

Besides, our partners from the PLQ strongly object to the very notion of separation. Every day of unemployment in Israel costs them a million shekels, almost their en¬ tire annual budget

Want to stop the next suicide bomber?

Choose your option...

Suppose we don’t release im¬ prisoned terrorists?

If we did, some of them would doubtless emerge as the next hit men; but on the other hand, Ara¬ fat has matte it eminently dear to us that he would be kicked out by his people if we didn’t get him a mass prisoner release, including Hamas.'

And without Arafat, it’s good¬ bye to peace.™

OKAY. We could stop negotia¬ tions as long as there's terror.

Out of the question. That would mean admitting failure, and cer¬ tain electoral defeat. Anyway, isn’t stopping fee talks Hamas’s avowed aim?

How about the death penalty for the murderers?

There’s no point pursuing that, now that we have finally integrated into the most progressive part of the enlightened world.

We could demolish murderers’ houses—

Completely ruled out The rage that would ensue among the Pales¬ tinian people would largely benefit Hamas, and weaken Arafat

How about agents inside the au¬ tonomous territories?

Alas, we have very few left. The others have been murdered, or transferred into Israel to save their lives. Some claim we abandoned them, and don’t want to have any¬ thing more to do with us.

Couldn’t we close off tire territo¬ ries until tire murderers are extra¬ dited?

Frankly, Arafat has . convinced us that delivering Arabs to the Jews is something his people couldn’t tolerate. The prospects of peace would dim again. No, Jeri¬ cho was the last closure. The Pal¬ estinians presented us with a di¬ lemma: Stop negotiations in Eilat; or let .fibril Rajoub, the man per¬ sonally responsible for harboring the kflleis, out.

Clearly, when the choice is be¬ tween peace and another terrorist attack, peace comes 'first So Ra¬ joub went to Eilat

He also staged a small “demon¬ stration” for us: stones, attacks on our soldiers, a flag-burning, the capture of an army- post. Of course, we told our soldiers to run.- Imagine if-they’d-opened fixe. What are they - settlers? The Pal¬ estinian police would certainly have returned fire. Then the cere¬ mony in Washington would have gone down the drain.

At any rate, in the face of public opinion, particularly tire extreme right, we can’t allow ourselves an¬ other outbreak of fere kind, anoth¬ er disgraceful flight of our soldiers. So froan now on, closure’s out

Extradition, then? We’ve had that, too, in Jericho,

la less than five minutes they con¬ jured up a “special court” out of thin air, indicted, judged, convict¬ ed and sentenced the escaped killers.

So what’s our next move against terror?

The writer, a lawyer and farmer MK, is a resident of Kbyat Arba.

Straight thinking on peace IT IS natural that repeated Ha¬

mas outrages should arouse rage and pain among our peo¬

ple, and some of them have vented their anger against any target with¬ in sight. But these instinctive reac¬ tions shouldn't be allowed to affect our powers of rational thought-''

It is sad to see Yosef Goeli writing in this paper (August 25): “Not even in response to terrorist outrages... such as [fee] suicide bombing in Jerusalem, will Prime Minister Rabin... declare an end to the peace process with the PLO.”

The underlying assumption is chat the outrages are somehow caused by fee "peace process.” So long as the process continues the outrages will continue, tot if it is ended, the bombings are likely to cease. This assumption is nonsen¬ sical; almost exactly fee opposite is fee case.

The Hamas outrages have been perpetrated parallel to the negotia¬ tions, not because of them. If the talks fall, as extremists on both sides hope, Hamas will win the trust of fee Palestinians and con¬ tinue its campaign of genocide.

The end, or even suspension, of the peace process would be a great victory for fee fundamentalists, wife incalculable results, That is not "twaddle.” as Goeli says, but plain common sense.

The only hope of ending the outrages is an agreement wife fee Palestinians who are now negotiat¬ ing with us. There is no guarantee of success; but any other policy means more conflict, more intifa- das, more outrages, and, sooner or

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later, more-wars. The Israelis so foully murdered

in the series of outrages culminat¬ ing in the Jerusalem attack last month were not victims of the peace process. They were victims of (he Arab-Jewish conflict, which Rabin is trying to settle, and the Hamas terrorists are doing their worst to perpetuate.

IN 1937, the Zionist movement adopted tire principle that tire con¬ flict should be solved by partition-

Hamas's outrages aren’t caused by

the peace process

ing the country. In 194ft, tire Jews, defending themselves against Arab attacks, established the sov¬ ereign, independent State of Israel in part of fee country, fee rest being occupied by Egypt and Jordan.

For 19 years, the stale devel¬ oped, prospered, and encom¬ passed hundreds of thousands of Jews within its limited de-facto boundaries. But fee 1967 victory, in self-defense against Arab ag¬ gression, aroused among some of our people the hope of pennanent rule over the entire historic Land of Israel, wife the Arabs a perma¬ nent minority.

The Labor Party, however, re¬ mained faithful to tfce.princxpte of

partition as tire only realistic basis for peace, ending tire unhealthy and untenable position of Israel governing by force nearly three million Arabs who were prepared to go to any lengths to cast off our rule.

After the 1992 elections, Labor and its allies were able to form a government, supported by a razor- thin majority, dedicated to these principles, and it has been engaged in exhausting and complex negoti¬ ations to implement them.

For some 25 years, the genocid- al aims of Hamas were included in the Palestine National Covenant of the PLO; but just two years ago there was a fundamental change in the attitude of the Palestinians.

On September 9, 1993, Yasser Arafat declared in an official letter to Prime Minister Rabin: 4*The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security” and “renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of vio¬ lence.” He also announced that any articles and provisions of the covenant Inconsistent wife these anamitmems “are now inopera¬ tive and no longer valid.”

The negotiations based on these awtertafcings and the Oslo Decla¬ ration of Principles have given the Palestinians hope of a peaceful so¬ lution to the conflict

If Israel ends them, Hamas will be aWe to claim that Arafat was wrong and fee fundamentalists right all along.

Ihe writer is a veteran member of the Zionist and Labor movements.

The Begin *

Doctrine SHLOMO NAKDIMON~~

SADDAM Hussein’s vendet¬ ta against his defectors* proves thfl* fee UN anns-

control investigations in Iraq sines ' 1991 haven’t famed up the real facts. Apparently even the secrets' now coining to light only represent fee tip of fee iceberg.

The last report to the Security , Council by Rolf Ekens, chairman, of fee UN committee for the dim!-. nation of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, indicates that Iraq had: intended, by April 1991, to pro-’ dace a nuclear device based on enriched uranium.

The “raw material” for this/ weighing some 50 kg, came from; France and fee Soviet Union, and'1 was ostensibly subject to sopervi-, sion by the Internationa] Atomic; Energy Agency. >

The final plan began to gelt in- 11 Baghdad after the invasion of Ku-. wait, and during the American., military buildup for war; but tire1* destruction by Allied bombing of the Iraqi nuclear installations in January 1991 put an end to that

Ekeus’s report didn’t surprise those few, in Israel and abroad, who had long contended feat the UN inspection was full of boles. Those who were surprised in Israel and abroad were obviously those who opposed the 1981 decision by Menachem Begin to attack the “innocent” Iraqi nuclear reactor.

Information available since the Gulf war points to fee conclusion that fee bombing of fee Iraqi reac-" tor was Israel’s most important de¬ fensive action ever.

AFTER THE latest disclosures by' Ekeus, known as a discerning' man, it is even dearer feat Israel, was Saddam’s target

Had be succeeded in his aim,; Israel would not have had fee ca¬ pacity for a second strike. - «

After the reactor was taken out,] Begin argued that the operation had put off fee Iraqi atomic weap-: £

‘Destroy each hew ; Iraqi nuclear reactor*

ons production plan by five years at most .

He then formulated a doctrine:, “Based on the precedent we have, created, every prime minister and; every Israeli government will de-; stray fee [new] reactor before it becomes operational”

Moreover, from talking wife! Begin I can attest foat.be meant' tire disruption of any Iraqi miji-j tary-nudear activity (and any in; fee countries around os as well). #

He didn’t, for instance, over-, look fee fact feat Saddam was set¬ ting up a parallel plan to produce, nuclear weapons using procedures; other than reactors. After all, US> Senator Allen Cranston had spo¬ ken about this plan openly in it plenary Senate meeting in March! 1981, three months before theT Iraqi reactor was shattered. * 1

Very regrettably, Israel’s gov-, ernments after Begin did not-take, -?■ up his doctrine; by fee time they! ^ awoke to the danger, it was too! late. - t

fo July 1990, days before Iraq's* seizure of Kuwait, then defense minister Moshe Arens presented a comprehensive document to Washington on Iraqi nuclear orga¬ nization. It spoke of a dispersal of sites of activity, and not just the? existence of a single reactor — mid’

■ so there was no longer any pros- pect of repeating the Israeli Air Force strike of June 1981.

.International action was now. called for; but the charters wrryri

Y5 81 ^ moment* God performed a miraritt, oonfus-i mg fee Iraqi dicta tor’s mfnri antfr causing han to invade Kuwait. The, rest is being uncovered day by dayJ

Looking back, fee remaining IsJ * raeli critics of fee 1981 bombing, including Shimon Feres, must ad¬ mit their mktoirw

To add emphasis, this is what Begm replied to my question of

he believed had beta , his most important decision as prime* minister:

Peace wife Egypt was impra^ fent and essential; but omty timo will .prove if ft is effective; In oos^ - tmst, fee bombing [of fee Iraqi miclear reactor] definitively pceJ vented the possibility of -a second- Holocaust. We must remain alert to ensure that this firaqil attempt « not repeated.” l™1

writer^ who is a member of lefeot Aharonot'j editorial Staff, ts the author of First Striked ife- scrtbmg the bombing of the Iraqi, nuclear reactor in 19RL , .

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Welsh soprano’s advice: Don’t eat the humous

Avery relaxed Rebecca Evans turned up in shorts at the Santa Fe Opera

canteen earlier this summer; The Welsh soprano was mak¬

ing her American debut as Susan¬ na in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Fi¬ garo in this New Mexico city's Opera festival. She said it was a very different experience from her international debut three years ago m Tel Aviv.

Relaxing, Tel Aviv wasn't. The stresses included a bad

batch of humous, -discovering that she had to kiss a woman on. stage, and 'dealing with an unusu¬ al production.

Bat it all worked out and, yes, she claims she would love to come back.

Evans has been invited to per¬ form the role of the captive Cre¬ tan princess Ilia in a new produc¬ tion of Mozart's fdomeneo, directed by David Alden. .

“Wien we talked about it he [Alden] wanted me to be. a kind of an Anne Frank character fall¬ ing in love with a Nazi,” die says. “So I read the diaries and tried to imagine how it would be in those days when the Greeks and Cre-

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tans were around. I'm sure their war, was as important to them as any war is important to us to¬ day.” While the interpretation was new to Evans, the role was not.

Two years earlier, Evansi barely out of music school, un¬ derstudied Ilia in a production of the Welsh National Opera.

As luck would have it, the so¬ prano who was signed to sing Ilia in Cardiff got sick, and Evans offered to jump in.

“The director wasn't happy as I was inexperienced, but it turned out an overwhelming success for me and the production,” she says.

In Cardiff, Evans sang oppo¬ site a tenor Idamante. the Greek .prince with whom she falls in love. In Israel, there was a mez¬ zo-soprano Idamante, and it was a surprise Evans did not know how jo handle.

“She was the first woman I bad to kiss on the stage, and I found that a bit odd. I guess I was inex¬

perienced at the time. Later on when I sang Sophie [in Strauss's Rosenkavalter] I had no problems with Octavian [who also was sung by a mezzo-soprano.]”

On top of all that. Evans was ill throughout her entire stay in Israel.

“I had a virus,” she says. “I ate something that really upset me. 1 think it was some bad humous. 1 lost 14 pounds, which was great for a moment, but not really.”

Although she always loved to sing, for five years Evans worked as a professional nurse in a small hospital in Wales.

“Then F took some singing les¬ sons and suddenly my life was very busy,” Evans says. “I was nursing during the week and sing¬ ing on weekends with male choirs all over Wales, and so my nursing was suffering and 1 really had to make a decision.”

The decision was made once Evans met Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel.

“When he heard 1 was a nurse, be told me l was a fool and ad¬ vised me to pursue a career in singing."

Evans accepted the challenge.

Barenboim defends Jerusalem 3000 lineup

Rebecca Evans's US debut went a lot smoother than her appearance in Tel Aviv.

Today, advancing her career is on the top of Evans's priority list.

“You have to be selfish and disciplined in a way. if you want to keep on singing.” she says. “You can't get drunk, at least not to often, and you can't go to a disco as it's loud and you have to shout there.”

As for family, no thank you. at least for the time being.

“I mean who knows." Evans says. “At the moment my career is very important It’s probably very selfish, but I feel 1 gave up a lot leaving my nursing. I left all my real friends and the job I love, and so I owe it to myself to give it all I can.”

DANIEL Barenboim, who arrived here over the weekend to conduct

three performances for the open¬ ing week of Jerusalem 3000. holds no truck with the political and religious controversies loom¬ ing over the 15-month-long event.

He will lead the Berlin State Opera, of which he is the music director, in Beethoven's Jesus on the Mount of Olives ("Wednes¬ day), Fidelia (Thursday) and Ninth Symphony (Friday).

Jerusalem 3000 should be out¬ side politics because “the fate of Jerusalem [in the context of the peace settlement] is one thing and this is something else. Drag politics in and out goes the event's singularity.” he comments.

“I'm happy to come to the 3000. It's important for me as an artist and as an Israeli.” he says. “Jerusalem is the symbol of our history and that of others, and that symbolism is perhaps the best gift we can give to the world. We're speaking of a historical.

HELEN KAYE

religious and cultural center for all the nations.”

Asked about the fuss that the Orthodox have made over the performance of Jesus on the Mount of Olives coupled with Stravinsky’s Psalms. Barenboim rejected the accusation of antise¬ mitism, calling it “a Levantine excuse. I chose the work, not the Germans- Jerusalem isn’t just any city and [the choice of pro¬ gram] represents its symbolic and humanist importance.”

He splits hairs as neatly as a talmudist (or a Jesuit), adding that “Jesus had some connection with the Jewish people, if I’m not mistaken. The oratorio tells his story, that’s all. and to play it on the very site is marvelous, very special. I'm looking forward to the concert.”

He's been at the Berlin Stare Opera (Unter den Linden) since ’92. It has its street address in its title to distinguish it from its col¬ league in the West, the Berlin Opera. Until the unification of Germany, Berlin State Opera

was part of the communist GDR. And that, says Barenboim,

coupled with its decade and a half under the Nazis, is responsible for the orchestra’s special sound "because it was closed to outside influences for all of those years. Their sound is that of the '30s, the sound I grew up with.”

It’s not politically correct to say so. he continues, but that’s a Ger¬ man sound.

Not Germanic, or Teutonic or anything that is allied to the awful nationalism that propelled Ger¬ many into its two disastrous wars, but the German sound of music.

The sound Beethoven himself heard when the 450-year-old or¬ chestra played his music.

Barenboim has. he says, “ex¬ panded their sound but not changed it.” He has also exposed the orchestra to 20th-century music.

The State Opera has never been here and the artists are looking forward to their visit “enormously and with that spe¬ cial feeling that any German of conscience and sensitivity must have visiting here.”

They are women, hear them roar

NEW RELEASES

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FORGET Freud's infamous question “What do women want?” Two utterly female

current albums shunt it aside with the simple statement: “Women want!”

Interestingly enough, much of the power in these two strong, sensual albums, featuring out- front front women, comes from the brilliant musical backing they're given by the men behind the women.

Atlanta's trio TLC may look £ like sugar and spice in their sto- _

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Vanessa Daoud looks like vari¬ ous other, only slightly provoca¬ tive, trendy New York Giy shek¬ els. Bat it is Erica Jong's more than slightly provocative, bawdy, feminist poetry that she is speak¬ ing/singing.

CrazySexyCool was released in ’94, but is still spawning R&B/rap bits. The first was “Creep.” in which a woman explains how rite takes care of herself by cheating back on a beloved man wbo cheats on her.

Then came the lascivious “Red Light Special,” with its toe-lick¬ ing video and the message: “I’m a woman/ A real woman/ I know just what I want/1 know just who I am.”

Oddly enough, these lines were written by one of the male producers of the album. Baby- face, whose credits indude pro- dudng Madonna.

The third single is the current “Waterfalls.” with its haunting

# hook: "Don’t go chasing water¬ falls” and its cautionary tales (ef¬ fectively staged in the beautiful video) about a boy who refuses to

listen to his lonely mother’s warn¬ ings about the dangers of drug dealing, and a young stud who catches AIDS.

This one is co-authored by Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes (the one with her hair in girlish bunches). The 24-year-old Lopes is the most ac¬ tive of the three behind the scenes. •

She is also (or was according to an article written a year ago) a very publicly battered woman.

At the time she was facing ar¬ son charges for allegedly burning her Atlanta football hero's house to 3hc’ ground. ■ The other two TLC itoembers. professed either outright; celibacy or the self-re¬ specting ability to just say no.

.The image of the lithe,' con¬ trolled,sexy superwoman may be fueled by male fantasies, yet those fantasies axe inspired by the women whose myth they are both building up and banking on. TLC are not just puppets in their inter¬ play with their male musical part¬ ners. The silky swagger with which they deliver the song and dance is their own. So is their crudity.

It is “Chili”, who takes prime credit for a joke interlude in which she teases a man with a breathy phone call that ends with the sound of a flushing toilet. The men, heard here only in brief spoken segments, are saying that they are turned on by women who fight back. TLC are taking them up on it. «

LIKE TLC, Vanessa Daoud’s backup is male. Though she sings and writes melody lines, it is her husband Peter who produces, ar¬ ranges and plays the “ambient” blend of jazz, rock and even clas¬ sical oriented music that propels her work, and he is good.

One might even wonder what

Contrary to appearances TLC are decidedly streetwise and even downright gross, im. La vine j

27-year-old Vanessa, delivering Erica Jong's words and floating on her husband’s rich music, is doing headlining'this effort. But somehow it's her concept, her baby.

Sounding a bit like Suzanne Vega, she is restrained, giving an almost ethereal reading to explic¬ it descriptions of love-making, fe¬ male self-abuse and scorn of male inability to handle women’s emo¬ tional “messiness.”

The result is an album that can, as intended, be played much more often than a mere poetry reading could, though it could perhaps have gained from a bit

more passion and vocal flexibili-

*y- When Daoud repeats strong

lines over and over in a catchy, song-like fashion to a good beat it works well, like “Near the Black Forest.” which really takes off into a song that sings.

This effort is perhaps a little too “cool.” Nonetheless, there is an interesting subtlety to a work that pushes listeners to come up with ideas of their own. to say nothing of a collection of words that often forces one to think. The overall effect is both pleasant and hypnotic.

The last poem/song is a new

one called “Smoke” (about mari¬ juana, the cosmos and the eternal now) spoken by Jong herself. The contrast of her traditionally in¬ tense, personalized reading makes one appreciate the roomi¬ ness of Daoud’s slightly bland al¬ ternative.

Perhaps a looser, punchier in¬ terpretation would have made the album stick to your ribs bet¬ ter.

Nonetheless, her genuine inno¬ vation is way ahead of the vast majority of the pop mainstream. Like the earthy sisterhood of TLC, Vanessa Daoud is surely no wimp.

Director holds both actress and audience captive BLOOD Written, directed and^gned by Amir Orion. Ai the Room Theater. Tel Aw. Hebrew title. Dam. The patient -Ehmt Wefcmsn _ Guy Coheo

A neighbor ..... NfcoJette Algranati

2 HE--AnurErc2 Amir Orion, driven by a com¬ pulsion to expose one of me

cruder faces of fananc ftmda- Salism in ultra-Ortbodox communities, returns toxbe theme of the sexual torments of¬ ten perpetrated on their women.

Baring his play on a Yemenite story by Bracha Sem. this pme

he shifts the ethnic scene from Sha'arayim to a Hareth quarter in Bnei Brak or Mea She’arim.

In what is tantamount to a monodrama, his protagonist - bed-bound and afflicted with post-natal depression - reveals in her ravings a history of sexual abuse and humiliation.

In the experimental theater tied to his Open Circle Method, Orion confines the action to the tiny area he calls his “Laboratory Theater."

Here, a captive audience never exceeding 15 is held in intimate

THEATER REVIEW

NAOMI DOUDAI

proximity and pulsing interaction with the actors.

This is a significant element in the unfolding of the drama. The 15 represent the guests who come to visit the half-demented patient bound hand and foot to the bed in the comer of “The Room."

Tbe materia], spellbinding in its authenticity and agonizing de¬ tail, affords an unlimited range of vocal and facial expression to an

actress as gifted as Einat Weiz- man.

Her performance sustains a deeply moving ethos that amounts to more than just anoth¬ er workshop exercise.

Yet even if, as part of the audi¬ ence involvement, one’s critical faculty should be in suspension, mine was stirred by a horrid sus¬ picion that here the actress, like audience, was a captive witness in a “dosed" rather than an “Open Circle," Somewhere, silently, in¬ visibly manipulating was the pal¬ pable Svengali presence of the director.

Brilliantly innovative as Orion shows himself in this and other past ceremonials of the same kind, one wonders about the psy¬ chic effects this method may have on the personalities of vulnerable performers.

The possibility that his detesta¬ tion of the revolting facts of fe¬ male, sexual abuse has become something of an obsession, is equally disturbing.

After all, there are many other areas in which the formidably faithful deviate from the norms of civilized conduct that deserve simi¬ lar exposure and denunciation.

Hugh Grant gets a boost Kolben goes back to ‘ Casablanca’ ° _ • . .1_1. rZivi i/rt11 Ifnnai EMMA Thompson to Hugh

Grant: good job. old bov. The Academy Award¬

winning British actress said Grant’s notorious liaison with a Sunset Boulevard prostitute was “wonderful, absolutely wonder¬ ful m an interview published

SUidon,t think it was a mistake ■« all ” she told The Independent on Sunday newspaper.

thought, thank God, you know, vou’ve broken out.”

Grant pleaded no contest to- lewd conduct in July after Los Angeles police arrested him in his

car with a prostitute. He plays Thompson's love interest in Sense and Sensibility, due out in December.

Thompson won the' best actress Oscar in 1992 for Howard’s End.

CORKECTION

The adllwr sod ^Jrlnted Three Quarts 15 Yoran ^

yesterday

GIFTED choreographer Amir Kolben has im¬ proved his latest work,

Casablanca. The performance at the Gerard Behar Theater in Je¬ rusalem on August 31 was much better than its premiere there some while ago.

Casablanca - an eternal love triangle involving two women and a man - is linked with the film classic of that name; but the snippets on the screen were now less dominant and obtrusive, while flashes of Bogart and Berg¬ man were used as comment rath¬ er than a pivot.

The dancing was a smoldering

DANCE REVIEW

DORA SOWDEN

affair expressed by the three characters in passionate solos, duets and finally a trio.

The focus thus remained on Galit Hamami. Riki Jarone and Kolben himself, with Zohar Ra¬ binovich on the sidelines.

The performers’ gymnastic whirls from a strange, fish¬ shaped metal object was fascinat¬ ing; the dancing as a whole acro¬ batic but also anguished.

This was an ingenious drama of

troubled souls. Despite its title. Body Express

is a bright and lively show that lives up to its subtitle - “Hallelu¬ jah Broadway.” Performed on August 29 at the Tel Aviv Opera Tower, this rich¬ ly costumed, excellently re¬ hearsed and smartly presented piece was more nostalgic than new.

The seven or eight dancers in the “chorus line” were all beauti¬ ful.

The songs belted out in high traditional style ranged from "Hey Big Spender” and “Hello Dolly” to more recent hits.

The ice-queen cometh CONCERT ROUNDUP

ICELANDIC avant-garde pop singer Bjork gave an as¬ tounding performance in

Caesarea last week. Though she is a darling of MTV. nothing pre¬ pared us for the impact of her remarkable stage presence. ' On the one hand Bjork is the epitome of free-spirited inspira¬ tion - she skips around the stage like a schoolgirl, singing stream- of-consciousness texts. On the other, the former child star is a completely controlled profession¬ al who knows every trick of the stage trade.

Though her somewhat minima- listic music can be repetitive, it is always original, as are this wild Bohemian elf s movements.

Her keen voice and bold ap¬ proach were projected from a stage decorated with weird troll¬ like trees. A multicolored light show bathed her. and at times the audience, with stroboscopic beams, as an unpretentious band pumped rhythms and sounds that have very little to do with any¬ thing anybody else in the business is doing today. The wonder of this individualism is that she actu¬ ally got everybody dancing.

Caesarea Amphitheater. .Au¬ gust 29.

Tirzah Agassi

ON the eve of a major tour of Poland and the Czech Republic, the Jerusalem Symphony Orches¬ tra bade its local audience fare¬ well with a concert that suggested that tour audiences are in for a real treat. In front of a less than

full house on a very hot day, the JSO played with enthusiasm, verve and distinction.

David Shaiton, JSO music di¬ rector. has performed Bern¬ stein’s First Symphony, the un¬ forgettable "Jeremiah,” several times with his musicians. But this performance was one of the best. It conveyed the real essence of the piece - from the intensity of the first movement. “Prophecy.” to the emotional outburst of the Lamentation in the finale through the scherzo-like "Profa¬ nation,” in which Noam Buch- m3n plaved magically on his flute.

There were very few weak links in either the playing or the interpretation. The sound was bright and clear and the musi¬ cians' devotion and dedication to the score was beyond reproach.

The soloist in the final move¬ ment was Jerusalem's mezzo-so¬ prano Susanna Poretsky. today a major international singer. Her warm, lush voice grows in stat¬ ure. breadth and intonation from performance to performance, and she delriered Bernstein's music with the appropriate pa¬ thos and drama.

Poretsky also gave a towering reading of six of Dvorak’s Bibli¬ cal Songs. which unfortunately are not performed very often. Here Poretsky’s big. caressing voice conveyed all the beauty and magic of the Slavic music.

Henry Crown Symphony Halt. Jerusalem, August 30.

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Business & Finance TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1995

Bank Leumi restructures Divisions now based on four customer categories

BANK Leumi announced yester¬ day major restructuring changes and the hiring of additional se¬ nior management staff.

Leumi’s board of directors ap¬ proved the changes, formulated by recently appointed managing director Galia Maor, that will change the bank's structure into divisions based on customer type and activity. Each division will offer services to customer groups through branches tailored to the group's needs.

Customers have been divided into four categories: private and small commercial customers, who will receive bank services through the banking division, made up of 188 branches: medi¬ um-sized business customers.

GAUT UPK1S BECK

who will receive services through the commercial division, made up of 55 branches; upscale clients from here and abroad who will receive services through the divi¬ sion of special banking, located in Tel Aviv. Jerusalem, and Haifa; and large businesses, who will re¬ ceive service through the busi¬ ness. international, and real es¬ tate divisions.

Among other approved changes, die bank has established a marketing and strategic devel¬ opment division to develop new banking and financial services, a division for subsidiaries that merges capital market and finan¬ cial services activities, and a man¬

agement resources division re¬ sponsible for human resources, operations, and management.

“From now on. Bank Leumi’s structure is organized to handle customers' requirements from the management level to the per¬ sonal banker at customer branches,” Maor said.

The bank will begin operating under the new structure on Octo¬ ber J.

Due to the changes, the board has appointed four new senior managers who will work directly under Maor. and an additional eight managers who will serve on Leu mi's management board.

The four major appointments

are: Ehud Shapira, who will be in charge of business and interna¬ tional banking in addition to his current position as corporate di¬ vision manager; Avraham Zeld¬ man, banking division head, who was appointed in charge of pri¬ vate and commercial banking', Shmuel Sussman. current bead the bank's human resources divi¬ sion, who was appointed manag¬ er of the resources department; and Ze'ev Nahari, head of the finance and accounting division, who was appointed head of the finance and economics division.

Arye Nissan, head of the capital market and financial services divi¬ sion, and Mosbe Nadir, operations and administration bead, an¬ nounced yesterday they will resign.

Tourism Minister IM Baram (l> and British Airways head of regions and sales, John Watson, meet on the eve of die Prime Monster’s Tourism Conference on Peace Tourism. Baram said 1995 has been a record-breaking year for incoming tourists. During the first eight months, 1.6 million tourists, a rise of 16 percent compared with the-same period last year, arrived here. Some 550 tourism industry leaders worldwide are expected to attend the conference. (Text: Haim Shapiro; Photo: Isaac Hanoi)

Agriculture exports to jump by 18%

GAUT UPKJS BECK

AGRICULTURE exports will in¬ crease by 18 percent to $715 mil¬ lion in the 1994/95 export season compared with $605m. in die 1993/ 94 export season, the Agriculture Ministry announced yesterday.

The figures are based on Agrex- co’s exports, which are expected to reach $550m. this season.

The export season runs from October to September.

The ministry said citrus is the leading sector for exports, reach¬ ing Sl74m., up 45% compared with the previous season. Flower exports increased 17% to $160m., while exports of field crops rose 1% to $104m.

While processed agriculture exports reached $350m. last year, fresh and processed exports are expected to reach $1.06 billion, one third of the country's entire agriculture production.

Agrexco general manager Shlomo Tirosh said the export sector has been characterized by instability.

“The season started with a drop in exports because of high prices in the domestic market, which encouraged farmers to sell their produce locally. In January, there was a turnaround, as more produce was directed to the ex¬ port market," he said.

Shekem will invest $20m. to modernize stores

GAL/T LIPKIS BECK

Shohat okays coverage increase for exporters

Post Business Staff

FINANCE Minister Avraham Shohat has authorized, at the request of the Israel Foreign Trade Risks Insurance Co. (IFTRIC), an increase in the amount of coverage for exporters, giving them mid- and long-term credit similar to that now available only in the short-term, the Treasury announced yesterday.

Mid- and long-term credit - for periods up to 10 years - will be increased from 82.5 percent to as much as 90%. Until now, 90% coverage was only available in short-term deals - up to one year - with countries rated A or B, such as the US, Germany, Japan, Italy, Greece. Chile, and Thailand.

Shohat also authorized an increase in short-term coverage in deals with countries ranked C and D in political risk - from 80% to 85% and from 70% to 80%. These countries include India. China, Colombia, Poland, Bulgaria, Brazil, and Jordan.

The finance minister said the increase was mandated by increasing international competition in the export of capital, industrial equip¬ ment, and medical and high-tech goods.

Competitive imports are 30% of industrial product market

Post Business Staff

SHEKEM will invest $20 million to restore and modernize its de¬ partment stores, the firm an¬ nounced yesterday.

The chain's flagship store, Sbe- kem Gallery in Tel Aviv, is to Open Saturday night, following renovations of $5m. that were ini¬ tiated shortly after Elco pur¬ chased Shekem from the govern¬ ment some eight months ago.

“We have tried to create a buy¬ ing atmosphere similar to what

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Israelis search for when they go abroad," managing director Am- non Dick said yesterday. “We are offering fashionable products in attractive showcases at reason¬ able prices."

He said an additional four stores - in Bat Yam, Haifa, Jeru¬ salem, and Ramat Gan - trill be turned into upscale. Shekem Gal¬ lery stores by year’s end.

In addition, the firm will oper¬ ate ten standard department stores as well as a chain of supermarket and hypermarket stores.

COMPETITIVE imports repre¬ sented some 30 percent of all in¬ dustrial products in the local mar¬ ket in 1994, according to a Central Bureau of Statistics study released yesterday.

The study noted that competi¬ tive imports made up 27% of the market in 1992, and 20% in 1990.

Competitive imports are prod¬ ucts which face local competition making up at least 20% of that market's product.

The increase is linked to the liberalization of the economy, which has been increasingly ex¬

posed to competitive imports. The increase affected products

in all industrial sectors, according to the survey.

In the food sector, competitive imports represented 14% of the local demand, compared with 10% in 1990. A sharp rise was recorded in the clothing industry, in which competitive imports grew from 10% in 1990 to 18% in 1994. In the wood sector, the rate increased from 15% to 20%, whereas competitive imports grew from 35% to 40% in the leather sector.

Bank Otsar Hahayal profits up to NIS 13.9m.

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BANK Otsar Hahayal reported second-quarter net profits of NIS 13.9 million compared with profits of NIS 12.8m. in 1994.

First-half profits increased 8.45 percent to NIS 5.5m.. from NIS 4.4m. Net return on equity on an annual basis fed to 14.98%. from 16.06%.

The bank recorded a 3% growth in financing profits before provisions for doubtful debts to NIS 88m., from NIS 67,2m. Op¬

erating and other income rose to NIS 35m., from NIS34.8m.

The rise was partly offset by a growth in provisions for doubtful debts to NIS S.9m.. from NIS 5.6m. Operating and other expenses grew to NIS 85.4m., from NIS 6S.9m. • C Mer Industries posted net losses of NIS 3.36m., from losses of NIS 2~29m. in 1994. Revenues rose to NIS 26m., from NIS 20.6m.

Half-year net losses were

NIS 3m. compared with NIS 5.7m. Revenues rose to NIS 52.7m., from NIS 35.7m. • Tuttnaner reported losses of NIS 4.7m., from losses of NIS 4.6m. in 1994. Revenues rose to NIS 24.3m.. from NIS 14.19m.

Six-month losses were NIS 4.6m. compared with NIS 5.7m., on revenues of NIS 38.49m., from NIS 24.3m.

Galii Lipids Beck and Rachel Neiman

Koor sets cash dividend distribution

policy

GAUT UPKJS BECK

KOOR Industries' board of di¬ rectors declared yesterday an an¬ nual cash dividend distribution policy of not (ess than NTS 3 per share.

The dividend will be distribut¬ ed twice a year.

The board declared a cash divi¬ dend of NIS 1.5 per share for the first six months of the year, equal to NIS 21m. for the period, or NIS 42m. on an annual basis.

Koor's subsidiaries will also distribute dividends.

'The board said the dividends will be based on (earnings, the economic situation, and other relevant factors.

President and CEO Benny Gaon said the policy refects the group’s belief that shareholders are entitled to benefit from com¬ pany profits.

“The decision to adopt a cash dividend policy is part of the firm’s policy to be a multinational holding company," he said.

Koor has not distributed divi¬ dends since 1992 due to a finan¬ cial arrangement made with cred¬ itor banks. A spokesman said the company instituted die new poli¬ cy since it has repaid all debts and is not subject to bank dividend distribution limitations.

Last week, Koor reported a 128 percent growth in second-quarter net profits to NIS 135m., from NIS 62m. in die same period last year. Six-month profits rose 16%, while net return on equity for the first half readied 16.1%.

Tax receipts rise 2

Post Business Staff

TAX receipts rose two percent to NIS 6.7 billion last month com¬ pared with last August, the finance ministry announced yesterday.

During the first eight months of the year, tax revenues in¬ creased 4% compared with the same period last year, reaching NIS 55.6b. However, adjusting for legislative tax changes and payment transferred to the Pales¬ tinian Authority, which reduced the tax base, revenues rose 7%.

Income and property tax reve¬ nues were up 1% to NIS 3.8b. Since January, revenues have risen 5%, reflecting a jump in individual income tax receipts, despite reduc¬ tions in property tax receipts.

Customs and Value Added Taxes rose 3% in real terms to NIS 2.8b. During the first eight months of the year, they rose 2%. however, when adjusting for customs and purchase tax reduc¬ tions, as well as (ax transfers to the Palestinians, they rose 7%.

VAT refunds rose 6% since the beginning of the year.

Meanwhile, the growth in du¬ rable good imports moderated last month. Car imports rose 3% to 10,000 units, while dishwash¬ ers and washing machines rose 1% and video recorders soared 53%. By contrast, television im¬ ports fell 31%, while refrigera¬ tors dropped 221%.

Elbit close to major sale of

avionics system RACHEL NBMAW

ELBIT notified . the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange yesterday that it is ready to conclude a major avi¬ onics systems sale.

The buyer’s name was not re¬ vealed, however, the sale is relat¬ ed to a major aircraft upgrade project in which the supply of avionics systems will be sub-con¬ tracted to Elbit.

Upon conclusion, the firm’s share in the project will be be¬ tween $70 million and $90m., to be paid out over an unspecified number of years.

Elbit operates as both an air¬ craft systems integrator and a supplier of upgrade systems. The company has retrofitted a broad range of aircraft including the A- 4, F-4, F-5, F-16, Mirage, and helicopters.

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Sfailoah Insurance has appointed Mosbe Abramovitcb as general manager of the company, the board of directors announced yesterday. Abramovitcb will take over from Menaham Harpaz, who resigned due to personal circumstances. Abramovitcb has managed Israel Land Development j Insurance over foe last four years. Before that, he worked at 5hiIoah for 16 years. Galit Upkis Beck '

Amisragas, the American-Israeli Gas Corporation, hosted a seminar yesterday on Economic and Safetey Reguattions concerning natural gas. “In view of advancing preparations to [integrate} natural gas in Israel, it is fitting to [learn from] the world’s experience in using this energy source,” Amisragas president Rafael Paradis said.

Lectures were presented by John Erickson, vice president of the American Gas Association, and William Kelestrom, ^ senior VP of Noram Energy- Rachel Neiman *

IEC buys 150 Silicon Graphics work stations: The Israel Electric Corporation has purchased 150 Silicon Graphics computer work stations for $3.6m. The computers wiQ be used to plan the new Ashdod power station. An additional $1.6 billion wiQ be invested in the new coal-based station. ‘

Rachel Neiman

Toys R Us International has placed a $1.2m. order with interactive software/hardware manufacturer Comfy. The toy store chain will market Comfy products, which target the . infant and pre-school market, in 600 stores in the US. The Disney-affiliated multinational Shamrock made a NIS 4m. investment in Comfy last month- Rachel Neiman

Ytong inaugurated a new advertising campaign yesterday . geared to the Arab sector. The slogan “Ytong [quality] rises above the price,” was chosen to emphasize tire construction material’s price after market research showed the firm’s cement blocks are perceived as far more expensive than competing products. Rachel Neiman

UNIX, NT users to increase: The number of local institutions using UNIX and NT (networking) operating systems is expected to rise during the next three yearsT according to a survey conducted by Meta Group-Israel. NT operating system usage is expected to rise to 70%. Industrial and public services head the list of groups making the transition from open VMS to NT.

UNIX use is expected to increase to 80%, led by the defense and high-tech sectors. Many organizations use both operating systems.

Market shares held by IBM's OS/2 and Novel Netware are expected to decline to 2%, from 50%, and 45%, from 80%, respectively. Both operating systems are used primarily by the financial sector. Rachel Neiman

Piastre, rubber sales growth second highest In the world: Israel is the world’s second highest growth market for plastic and rubber sales, the Manufacturers Association reported yesterday. The results are based on figures published by the. worldwide plasticandrubSer association. ...

-"'Israel registered al9.1%growth insales in1994, as piastre and robber sales increased to $2.2 billion last year. Hungary - - ‘ • registered the highest growth worldwide, up 21.5% from the previous year. Rachel Neiman

Large Australian trade delegation to arrive soon: The largest- ever trade delegation from Australia is to arrive this month as . guests of Industry and Tkade Minister Micha Harish.

The delegation, due to arrive Sunday, includes 35 participants from Australia and New Zealand, and will be here for a week of meetings with leading economic and industrial figures.

The group is headed by David Mortimer, general manager of TNT, the Australian transport grant, who is looking to establish a base here for his company’s Middle East operations. Among other participants will be repre¬ sentatives from the ANZBank and the Pratt paper oompa- ny.

Jerusalem Post Staff

Teachers’ groups transfer funds to First International: The Teachers Federation and the Post-Elementary School Teachers Organization transferred their advanced study funds to tire management of Fust International Bank's provident funds earlier this week. J

The two funds have more than 110,000 members with assets valued at about NTS 2.4b. Galit Upkis Beck

Taste of Israel losses increase J RACHEL NEIMAN

TASTE of Israel reported sec¬ ond-quarter net losses of NIS 717,000, from net losses of NIS 405,000 in the same period last year.

Revenues fell to NIS 8.3m., from NIS 9.3m.

Six-month profits were NIS 225,000 compared with NIS 895,000, on revenues of NIS 21.46m., from NIS 23.17m.

Manufacturing costs increasi during the reported period due the firm's construction .of marshmallow production line.

The company intends to conti ue its pre-sale marketing poli and expand its local client base

Taste of Israel's product ran, in the coming quarter will expat to include chocolate coins ai chewing gum.

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PARIS (Remrer) - French tirade union leaders warned Prime Min¬ ister Alain Juppe ye&erday that his austerity plans, including cots in welfare spending and a tight rein on public sector wages, could spark strikes this autumn..

The conservative premier met with a cool reception when he unveiled, in a series of talks with labor chiefs, his reform plans to curb public spending.

Although most - unions an - ■ swered Juppe’s call for a nation¬ wide debate on welfare, several accused The government of going back on presidential campaign pledges during which victorious candidate Jacques Chirac had taken a leftist stance on welfare issues .arid backed- strikers de¬ manding pay hikes.

BEIRUT (Reuter) - a Lebanese parhamentary committee recom¬ mended yesterday that a contract with Cablc and Wireless Pic be scrapped because the British firm holds a 10 pereenr stake in Be¬ zeq. ;. .

decided, in agreement with the minister of communica¬ tions, to recommend the breakup of the contract,” bead of the committee Ayyoub Hmayyed toM reporters after a meeting at¬ tended by Communications Min- istcr AI-Fadel Chalaq.

Cable and Wireless provides management expertise to the ministry under a three-year con¬ tract running to 1997.

The company bought a 10.02 . percent stake in Bezeq earlier

this year. “The recommendation comes

in accordance with Lebanese and Syrian opposition policies to¬ wards the Israeli enemy and all companies dealing with the Israe¬ li entity,” Hmayyed said.

A source in Cable and Wireless said the Arab League boycott of¬

fice, which coordinates a boycott of companies linked with Israel, did not have the firm on its list.

“As far as we understand, the issue is a dead issue. When referred to the Arab League, they said there was no reason for a boycott,” the source said.

Hmayyed said despite the deci¬ sion by the boycott office, the issue had to be reconsidered after Cable and Wireless bought into Bezeq.

at British arms export fair ALDERSHOT, England (Reu¬ ter) - One of the world’s biggest arms export shows opened its doors yesterday, but guests invit¬ ed to the British showcase were expected to bargain harder and spend more carefully than ever.

Britain’s defense firms, whose sales were worth about £4.5 bO-

. lion in 1994, are.among the busi¬ est exporters in a shrinking post- Cold War market.

They rank alongside France and date US the top three mer¬ chants, though the US domestic market is so large that its indus¬ trial base is much bigger.

The biennial, government- funded Royal Navy and British Army Equipment Exhibition also demonstrates the strong backing the state gives to this industry.

’ Britain’s defense procurement minister, James Arbutbnot, opened the show saying he fdt the industry was intact despite recent consolidation and shrinkage.

“ThelUK defense industry has undergone a period of consider¬ able rationalization and realign¬ ments, resulting in greater vitali¬ ty and strength,” he said.

“Companies are rising to the challenge of an ever-more com¬ petitive arid discerning market.”

Arbuthnot revealed no new

- British buys, however, and his upbeat tone, welcoming about 900 officials from 80 governments to the show, was not widely ech¬ oed among exhibitors.

A defensive air hung over the camouflaged vehicles and softjy shaped radar domes displayed in the Aldershot compound as man¬ ufacturers said they faced multi¬ ple challenges.

The breakneck pace of techno¬ logical development, falling entry barriers to tile industry, com¬ bined with ever-tougher contract¬ ing terms by buyers - including Britain - mean increased com¬ mercial risks.

Some larger firms, working more with rivals in consortiums, said they were still in a tricky learning process over workload and market-sharing arguments.

A few smaller firms, desperate to keep production lines rolling, also complained of the political role in marketing, partly due to the government policing sales more strictly.

The Defense Export Services Organization (DESO), which hosts the show and is a support agency for exports, has had to sharpen its monitoring role after scandals around illicit exports to Iraq damaged the ruling Conser¬

vative government's reputation in managing the trade.

The DESO chief told reporters his office currently rejects on av¬ erage one application for an ex¬ port license per day.

Arbuthnot said Britain “has possibly the most stringent con¬ trols on sales in the world”.

At the same time, he argued, the industry’s export potential was boosted by its links with “one of the world's most demanding customers” in the shape of the British armed forces.

Outside the exhibition site, protesters from the pacifist group Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) made clear their opposi¬ tion to the bazaar and what they see as the risks that arms trading with developing countries can ■ pose to human rights.

They will mount a vigil on nearby roads every day of the week-long exhibition and planned a non-violent invasion of the well-guarded site. On Sunday about 30 protesters were arrested for entering Defense Ministry land without permission.

“The government uses a cloak of secrecy to bide the fact that it repeatedly turns a blind eye to the human rights record of arms customers.” CAAT said.

70,000 VW workers walk off

job, protest WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reu¬ ter) - Tens of thousands of Volkswagen AG workers walked off the job and held demonstra¬ tions yesterday, driving home de¬ mands for higher wages and job security before month-long labor talks resume today.

Union IG Metall said some 70,000 workers held brief strikes at all of VW’s six German plants, including the first strike at Volks¬ wagen’s main plant in Wolfsburg since 1990.

The walkouts are the most widespread in the growing dis¬ pute which, according to Volks¬ wagen spokesman Otto Ferdi¬ nand Wachs, has cost the company some $89 million in lost sales and delayed production of thousands of cars.

Talks have been bogged down over the union’s demand that it receive higher wages and job se¬ curity at the same time that Volkswagen is asking workers to put in overtime with only small increases in extra over-time pay.

Speaking to a group of demon¬ strators in front of VW’s head¬ quarters building, Klaus Volkert, head of the works council said, “We want a fair compromise from the board of directors, not an unreasonable dictate.”

The carmaker says it needs concessions from its workforce to remain competitive in the world market place and adjust production to periods of peak demand.

Volkswagen, which says it has tried to compromise, has grown increasingly irritated with IG Me- tall’s tactics.

“After we modified our offer twice in the last round of talks [last week] it is IG Metall’s turn to make a move.” Wachs said in the text of an interview made available to reporters.

IG Metall first held token strikes last Tuesday at several plants and held a protest march through Hanover.

Especially sensitive for both sides is the union’s demand for job guarantees.

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LEADING shares closed little changed yesterday as gains in El- bit were offest by losses in Teva and Dsem.

The Two-sided Index rose 0-21% to 207.68. and the Maof Index rose 0.10% to 211.00. Across the exchange about 15 shares rose for every 10 that fell.

Shares worth some NIS 106 million changed hands. 11.4m. above Sunday's figures and about NIS 50m. below average levels two weeks ago.

‘’The market is in a diffi¬ cult phase” said Pacific Medi¬ terranean analyst David Rosen¬ berg.

“There was a sell-off last week, then prices rose sharply yester¬ day; investors may feel more sell¬ ing is in order”.

The Two-sided Index lost 1.2% last week, and gained 1.79% Sunday.

Maof Index listed Elbit rose 3%. Also on the index, Teva fell 1%. The decline, said Rosenberg was in response to Sunday's gains of 5.25%, which invest¬

ors perceived as an “over- reaction.”

Index-listed Osem Investments fell 2%.

Gainers on the Maof Index in¬ cluded Bank Hapoalim, which rose 1.75%.

Also on the index. Tadircn rose 1%. Tadiran batteries an¬ nounced it won a contract worth $3m. to supply lithium batteries for toll roads in Canada.

The biggest gainer on the Two- Sided Index, Rogosin Enter¬ prises, . jumped a second straight day, gaining 14.25%. Maof In¬ dex-listed investment company Africa Israel Issue 1 rose 1%, while subsidiary Africa Israel Hotels, which is not index-listed rose 3.75%.

Shares in Maof Index-listed phone company Bezeq rose for a second straight day, gaining 0.5%.

The Amex/Oscar Gross Israel Index closed at 155.69 Friday, up from 154.85 Thursday. The in¬ dex, which measures 11 compa¬ nies traded in the US, closed at an annual high of 156.8. _(Bloomberg)

FTSE rises by 13 points, nears record closing high

WORLD MARKET ROUNDUP

LONDON (Reuter) - London blue chips climbed back towards their all-time record closing high of two weeks ago. but volumes were thin as Wall Street was dosed for a US holiday and in¬ vestors await results due this week.

The FTSE-100 index of key LTC stocks closed at 3.522.7, up 13.3. just off the day's best of 3,523.6 on volume of 445 million shares at the close.

“It’s totally thin, just proving how reliant we are on the street." one senior trader said of the Lon¬ don market.

Wall Street’s close on Friday at 4647. up nearly 37 points, helped underpin sentiment on UK shares.

FRANKFURT - German shares ended a session of quiet bourse trade higher as relatively small orders were sufficient to push the market up in thin dealings.

“Small orders hit a thin market and they managed to pull the en¬ tire market higher,” one dealer said. “It is net as if a buying wave or frenzy had broken out.”

The DAX index of 30-leading shares closed up 17.24 points at 2,250.33, and the market made further strides in post-bourse trade. The IBIS DAX climbed to 2,259-05.

Commerzbank AG continued to absorb the market's interest, although share dealers weighed news as neutral that it would buy a 15-38 percent stake in steel¬ maker Thyssen for lateT sale.

Bat the shares sagged to close off two marks at 328.70 marks as last week’s announcement of a capital hike in November contin¬ ued to weigh on sentiment.

PARIS - French shares fin¬ ished with a one percent gain af¬ ter a technical bounce which took the CAC-40 index back just above the psychologically impor¬ tant 1,900 level.

Traders said the market was correcting from last week’s steep falls and took its tone from posi¬ tive bond markets.

Rises by heavyweights Elf and Total pushed the index higher, made easier by thin volume, due to US markets' closure. The' CAC-40 index closed up 18.83 at 1,900.52.

TOKYO - Sharp drops among many speculative shares in small¬

er companies that had led the market recently, especially Fuao Construction, hit stock indexes hard yesterday.

The 225-share Nikkei average closed down 372.21 points or 2.05% -at 17,748.52. after falling as low as 17,637.62.

Fudo, a focus of volatile intra¬ day trade recently, plunged 112 yen or 10.5% to 95S with S.24 million shares traded.

"The drop in Fudo Construc¬ tion had a large impact today. Its weakness pulled down other smaller shares as well. Some in¬ vestors tried to push up high-tech shares, but in vain.” said Sliuji Yasuma. general manager at Kankaku Securities.

ZURICH - Swiss shares ended off their peaks but still at a record closing high for lne year on strong demand for several blue- chips. The rally was also helped by rising bond futures and techni¬ cal factors, dealers said. Volumes were moderate. The all-share SPI put on 14.23 points to 1.928.06.

HONG KONG - Stocks closed firmer in stagnant trading. Light profit-taking emerged in the af¬ ternoon to chip away at early 86 point gains. Market leader HSBC Holdings rose HKS1.61 to HK$104.50 despite going ex-divi- dend yesterday. The Hang Seng Index rose 56.4S points to 9,252.95. Turnover was HKS2.70 billion against HK$2.35b. on Friday.

SYDNEY - The share market closed lower despite a higher Wall Street close. Traders said that after remaining flat to mid¬ day the market fell away after key major stocks dipped and closed at or near their lows for the day. The All Ordinaries index was 9.6 points lower at 2123.60

JOHANNESBURG - South African gold shares ended well down on a slump in the bullion price w'hile industrials, helped by Friday’s gains on Wall Street, ral¬ lied against bearish gold senti¬ ment to end only slightly lower, dealers said. The all-share index was 17.8 points lower at 5.528.8, the industrial index slipped 5.4 points to 6,930.8 and the goid index shed 34.8 points to 1,499.1.

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Bruno wins title Seles, Becker advance to quarterfinals Sampras surges but Vicario is upset

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EXPERIENCED SWING - No. 4 Boris Becker hits a return to Marc Rosset during their fourth (Renter)

WEMBLEY, England (AP) - He may have a suspect chin and a robotic fighting style. Bur Frank Bruno deserves 10 out of 10 for persistence.

Hie 33-year-old British fighter sparked a carnival atmosphere in his country Saturday by winning the world heavyweight title at the fourth attempt

“Fourteen years. You can’t beat that for persevere nee.” Bru¬ no said. “Now I have the champi¬ onship belt and no one can take it away.”

Bruno gained a unanimous de¬ cision over Oliver McCall to take the American's WBC title before 23,000 of his own fans at Wem¬ bley stadium.

“It’s hard to believe, it hasn’t sunk in. So many people stuck behind me all those years,” said Bruno, who took three years off to become a TV and stage star in 19S9 before returning to the ring.

“I feel on top of the world. He came at me like a madman — I did what I had to survive, that’s why I look like E.T. The last round wasn’t three minutes, it was like 24 minutes.”

Loser to Uni Witherspoon in 1986, Mike Tyson in '89 and Len¬ nox Lewis two years ago, Bruno, now in his 14th year as a pro, made it an emotional night as be notched up his 40th victory against four defeats.

Judge Malcolm Butaer of Aus¬ tralia scored the fight 115-113 and Newton Campos, Brazil, and Fay Solis, Mexico, had it 117-111 to spark a night of celebration for the British fans.

It was the first time in history a British-born fighter had won the title in a British ring. Bob Fitz¬ simmons won it in 1897 in the United States and Lewis was handed the WBC belt after Rid¬

dick Bowe had dumped it in a garbage ran

McCall, who won die title from Lewis by knocking bim out in two rounds a year ago. lost it after one defense. He gained a deci¬ sion over Lany Holmes in April.

On the same card, Virgil Hill gained a unanimous decision over Drake Tbadzi of Canada, to re¬ tain his WBA light-heavyweight title for the eighth time.

And Britain’s Nigel Benn knocked out American Danny Ray Perez in the seventh round to defend his WBC super-middle¬ weight title for the ninth time.

After the fight, heavyweight contender Mike Tyson said that be was happy that Bruno won.

“Mike Tyson sent his hearty congratulations to Frank,” pro¬ moter Don King said Sunday. “As we called him. Mitre an¬ swered by saying: ‘Don’t teQ me, I bet you Frank won.’ He took the punch line away.” King said.

“He said: ‘Give him my best, tefl him that's great’”

It is great for Bruno. -Once King has set up a fairly straight¬ forward defease against a lower- ranked fighter, the British heavy¬ weight will be looking at a $100 million fight with Tyson, who continues his comeback Novem¬ ber 4 against Buster Mathis Jr. in Las Vegas.

It’s also great for Tyson. He knows he took Bruno’s best punch before coming back to nail him in five rounds in 1989.

Bruno, it seems, can’t wait to get at Tyson, even though he’s on friendly terms with the former undisputed champion.

“I respect him and I love him because he’s good for boxing. But my main dream of all is to fight Mike Tyson in a rematch,” he said.

NEW YORK (AP) - Monica Seles took another step toward her third US Open title yester¬ day, defeating llth-seeded Alike Huber 6-1, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals.

Also advancing to the women’s quarters were No. 5 Jana No¬ votna and, in a mild upset, big¬ serving Brenda Schultz-McCar- tfay of the Netherlands.

Novotna defeated unseeded Katarina Studenikova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-4, while the llth-seeded Schultz-McCarthy beat No. 7 Ki¬ rn ifcn Date of Japan 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.

In a fourth-round men’s match, fourth-seeded Boris Becker beat No. 13 Marc Rosset of Switzer¬ land 7-15(7-4), 6-3, 6-3.

Seles won the women’s title in 1991 and 1992. Then, in April 1993, she was stabbed by a de¬ ranged spectator during a match in Hamburg, Germany.

Ranked No. 1 in the world at the time, Seles didn't return to the tennis tour until last month at the Canadian Open, which she won.

Haber, who broke Seles twice and was her toughest opponent at Toronto, again made a strong bid for the victory on the hardcourts of die National Tennis Center.

The German broke the tourna¬ ment’s No. 2 seed in the second game of the second set and made Seles stay on court for one hour, 11 minutes, the first time in the tournament that she has needed more than an hour to win a match.

With his win, Becker became a big favorite for a semifinal berth since his quarterfinal foe will be the winner of tonight’s Hattie be¬ tween two unseeded players, Pat¬ rick McEnroe and Daniel Vacek.

Because of a rash of upsets, Becker and No. 1 Andre Agassi were the only seeded players left

round US Open match yesterday.

in the top half of the men’s tingles draw at the National Tennis Center.

It was the Becker of old, die 1989 US Open champion, who took the court against Rosset. Becker blasted 14 aces and, after the first set, controlled the match, which took only 2:01.

The German broke Rosset once in the second set and twice in the third, while never losing his serve.

For Rosset, the 1992 Olympics gold medalist, the loss continued a string of frustration in major events. In the 23 Grand Slam tournaments be has played, Ros¬ set never has reached the quarterfinals.

Schultz-McCarthy is in a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the second time, having advanced that far at Wimbledon this sum¬ mer. This victory came in an er¬ ror-plagued matchup.

Date made 38 unforced errors, while Schultz-McCarthy made 62, including 28 in the first set, which she won.

Match point was typical of most of the match. Date rammed a second-serve return into the net

Meanwhile. Arantxa Sanchez Vicario’s US Open ended one Sunday too soon.

This was the US Open in which Sanchez Vicario, the defending

Joe Fernandez.

Seles has returned after nearly 2/i years away from tennis. Steffi

Graf is finally considered beata¬ ble. And Sanchez Vicario had readied the find of the first three Grand Slam tournaments, this year.

Then along came Fernandez, grabbing a spot in the quarterf^ . nals with a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory, over the No. 3 seed Sunday.

Graf, a three-time US Open; champion, and 1990 winner Ga¬ briels Sabatini also reached the quarterfinals, along with unsced-. ed Amy Frazier, a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3! winner over I2th-seeded Natasha; Zvereva. !

Graf beat Chanda Rubin 6-2,; 6-2, after Sabatini stopped 14-^ year-old Martina Hingis of Swn-- zeriand 6-2, 64. ■

Playing third-round matches*- one round behind the women, winners in the men's singles Sun-; day included second-seeded, two-; time champion Pete Sampras,< No. 3 Thomas Muster, No. 5 Mi- *, chael Chang, No. 8 Michael! Stich, No. 14 Jim Courier, No. 151 Todd Martin, Byron Black o£ Zimbabwe and Michael Tebbutr of Australia, who upset 12th-* seeded Richard Krajicek of the- Netherlands 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(7-5), 7-i 6(7-4), 7-6(74). j

Sampras defeated Mark Philip-, poussis, a 6-fbot-4 Australian, ioj a battle of big servers 6-7(7-S), 7- 5, 7-5, 6-3. Together, theyj pounded 42 aces, 27 by Sampras. «

Sampras next plays Martin, an-! other big server, in the fourth; round. Martin advanced with a fa 2, 6-1, 64 win over Maurido Ha-* (fed of Colombia.

Italy plans enquiry over faking fouls

Rutherford named Transvaal captain

JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) - Sacked New Zealand captain Ken Rutherford has been ap¬ pointed skipper of South African provincial side Transvaal for the forthcoming cricket season, it was announced yesterday.

The Transvaal Cricket Board said Rutherford had signed a two-year contract - He was relieved of the New Zealand captaincy earlier this year following a string of poor performances but Transvaal coa¬ ch Jimmy Cook said he had been impressed by the 30-year-old batsman when he led New Zea¬ land on their tour of South Africa earlier this year.

"He brings a wealth of experi¬ ence and we hope he can add a little steel to the side to turn draws into wins,” Cook said.

The contract means Ruther¬ ford will not be available for next year’s World.Cup even should New Zealand want him.

Rutherford’s first match in charge will start on Friday when he captains a young Transvaal side in a three-day friendly against Boland.

Israeli tennis team seeks to

subdue Slovenia HEATHER CHAP-

ISRAEL’S Davis Cup tennis team will tussle with Slovenia later this month in a struggle to remain in the Euro/African Zone Group L

The squad for the tie to be held in Ramat Hasharon from Septem¬ ber 21-23, will include EyaJ Ran, Gflad Bloom, Eyal Erlich and Noam Behr. This wifi be Kan’s first Davis Cup encounter as Isra¬ el's top racket

After Israel was trounced 4-1 by Norway in April, where Bloom played disappointingly, his place In the team is by no means assured.

Israel’s captain Shlomo Gikk- siein was not giving away any se¬ crets about the final choice of players, saying “This is a new, young squad with a string of suc¬ cesses overseas in both singles and doubles. I believe they wHi prove themselves in this tie.”

The first two singles rubbers have been rescheduled from Fri¬ day to Thursday to avoid die final day befog held on Sunday, which is Rosh Hashana eve.

Oded Ya’acov will be the team coach and Amos Mansdorf is ex¬ pected to add his experience to the squad.

The main umpire will be l™gi BarambOa from Italy.

To help bring in the crowds, tickets will be offered at a reduced price of NIS 20 for adults and NIS 10 for students and soldiers, ac¬ cording to the event organizers.

FLORENCE (Renter) - The president of Italy’s soccer federa¬ tion said yesterday disciplinary officials would meet to discuss a controversial new ruling suspend¬ ing players who fake injury on the pitch.

Two serie B players, Marco Tomaselli of Reggina and Sebas- tiano Vecchiola of Venezia, were last week given a one-match ban by sporting judge Alberto Fuma- galli, who oversees disciplinary matters in serie A and serie B.

The suspensions followed bookings for “pretending to have been foaled while in an oppo¬ nent’s penalty area” on die open¬ ing day of the season.

The suspensions caused a fu-

BUENOS AIRES (AP) - The Argentine Football Association is unfairly targeting past offenders in a bid to crack down on drug abuse, Diego Maradona claims.

Maradona, whose second 15- month playing ban for drug-relat¬ ed offenses expires on September 30, said three tests on striker Claudio Casiggia in the last four weeks made a mockery of what was supposed to be random selection.

"This is a country of squealers. It’s ridiculous that Caipggia has been tested three times,” Mara¬ dona said late Sunday in a radio interview from the Uruguayan re¬ sort of Punia del Este where be is undergoing a fitness program be¬ hind closed doors.

In Argentine league and cep games, two players from both sides are picked randomly to un¬ dergo doping tests.

Maradona last year clashed with Argentine national coach Daniel Passarelia, who said he was in favor of all players in his squad having rhinoscopy - an ex¬ amination of the internal struc¬ tures of the nose - to detect co-

tote, with players and officials caught unawares by die new rul¬ ing, and the situation was compli¬ cated by Fumagalli’s serie C counterpart merely wanting play¬ ers for the same offence.

Matarrese said he had- learned of the new . rules only after the players were suspended.^;:.:.

One serie A player, Interna- zionale’s Marco Delvecchio, was also booked for a fall in the area on the first day of the season on August 27 and risks a similar ban.

His case has not been exam¬ ined yet because there was no serie A action last weekend due to Italy’s European champion¬ ship qualifier against Slovenia on Wednesday.

caine use. Maradona and Caniggia, who

between them have been sus¬ pended for 43 months for drag abuse in the last four years, will team up this season for first-divi¬ sion side Boca Juniors.

Soccer commentators have ex¬ pressed concern that Maradona recently hired Daniel Cerrini, the dietician who claimed responsi¬ bility for the star testing positive for banned stimulants during the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

Maradona was subsequently banned for 15 months by FIFA, soccer's world governing body. He received a similar ban in 1991 for cocaine abuse while playing for Italy’s Napoli Caniggia was banned for cocaine abuse in 1993 while playing for Italy’s Roma.

Maradona, 35 in October, has been training for the last three days in Uruguay with Cenini and other personal assistants.

He claimed he was in good shape for his comeback for Boca on September 30 against South Korea in Seoul: “I’m training hard.”

SPORTS BRIEFS

Monthly Medal tournament results The Monthly Medal tournament was held over fee weekend at the Caesarea Golf Qub.

Shari TzadDtian led the first division wife a 70. Basel Kaufman was second with a 73. Cyril Kaufman tied his brother Basel with a 73.

In the second division, Mali Geri had fee best net score of the day, a 65. Arieh Gresaro was second with a 76, followed by Chuck Shaikowitz with a 77.

Michael Cohen led the third division wife his 69. Joe Klein had a 72 and Toiri Shapira had 74.

Albert Elias with his 72 led fee fourth division followed by Vered Hyman ai 74 and Mike Manner with 75.

After the twelfth round of fee National Golf Coca Cola League, Kfor Shmaryahn leads wife 27 points followed by Ra’anana with 23 and Jerusalem is third at 21. Jules Cupumek

Maradona blasts drug tests

Under-21s playing today

DEREK FATTAL

ISRAEL'S national squad and under-21 (Olympic) side arrived in Slovakia yesterday afternoon, in readiness for their respective qualifying matches against the host counterparts.

The nnder-21s play fee Slova¬ kian team later today in the city of Presov. Coach Yitzhak Shunt looks likely to field a similar start¬ ing line-up to that employed re¬ cently against Hungary.

The under-21s are aiming to achieve the double over the Slo¬ vakians.

The national squad continued wife its training preparations yes¬ terday for tomorrow’s crucial Group 1 European qualifying match in Kosice. The game will determine whether or not the side continues to harbor dreams of participating in its first finals stage of a major competition since appearing in the 1970 World Cup tournament in Mexico.

Brisbane Bears reach playoffs MELBOURNE (AP) - A last- quarter surge by Tony Lockett led Sydney to a 23-point Austra¬ lian Football League win over Collingwood on Sunday, allowing the Brisbane Bears into fee Aus¬ tralian Rules football finals for the first time.

The result dumped Coliing- wood out of the top eight and gave Brisbane its-first playafTep- pearance sines making its debut mT987: The BeariFwH play*Carl¬ ton next Sunday at the Mel¬ bourne Cricket Ground.

Sydney won 19.13 (127) to 15.14 (104) after trailing by 32 points at one stage in the second quarter, giving AFL veteran Ron Barassi a perfect sendoff in his 514tb and final game as a coach.

Full-forward Lockett broke Warwick Capper’s Sydney record of 103 goals for the season when he got his 104th at the 13-mimite mark of fee second term. Lockett then kicked four goals in 11 min¬ utes in the final quarter to finish with seven.

Elsewhere as fee regular AFL season ended, Carlton, with a re¬ cord 20 wins and only two losses in the home-and-away season, se¬

cured top spot while Geelong fin¬ ished wynni? The remainder of the find eight: Essendon, Rich¬ mond, North Melbourne, West Coast, Footscray and Brisbane.

In the only other match Sun¬ day, the West Coast Eagles easily beat the Fremantle Dockers 26.15 (111) to 8.10 (58) in a battle of Peith-area teams.

playoff position with a 16.K (110) to 13.11 (89) win over{ Melbourne. ;

Weekend AFL results: Sydney Swans 9.13 (127) daf. Coffing- vwxxJ 15.14 (104) - West Coast eagles 16:15 (111) del Fn* mantis Doctors 6.10 (58J Richmond 19J9 (123) del Adelaide 12.14

Carlton 16.12 (100) dsL Essendon 9.13 t (67),

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second spot after powering JWt' JS’iitoumel ' Hawthorn 23.10 (148)' to (102) while Geelong’s main com¬ petitor for second, Essendon, was beaten by Cariton.

Carlton’s 16.12 (108) to 9J3 (67) win was maned by the re¬ porting of Greg Williams, who was booked for abusive language. St KBda surprised Footscray with a 20.12 (132) to 1L12 (78) vic¬ tory. In the other game on Satur¬ day, North Melbourne ran up a mammoth 3024 (204) total to de¬ feat Filzroy 15.11 (101).

Richmond completed its best placing in 13 years with a 37-point win over Adelaide oo Saturday night The Tigers Jed all night to win 19.9 (123) to 12.14 (86).

On Friday, die Bears moved .into eighth place and the final

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• do w!tb tile island. This witty musical play rakes a lookatthe ps from the *90&. Meyriiv Gruber andltcbo Ayital play the coopje _ who. married so nppefaUy then and divorce so bitterly now. On the Cameri mamstage tonight at 730 p.m. (Hebrew, with sinmKanemis translation into English)

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THREE and a half years'ago, the CMdren and Youtfr"The¬ ater was gasping for life. To¬ day, boumy as ir ever was^ tt celebrates 25 years with a gala benefit to honor founder Oma Porat who jnstjgot the Knesset Speaker's Prize for her 20 years with the theater: Performers include Porat singing a song es¬ pecially composed for her, fun¬ nymen Dudus Topaz and Do- tan. singer Eyal Gefen, actors Rami Baruch, the inimitable •

Osnat Vishinsky, Gil Alon and many more who’ll do their party pieces at 8:30 p.m. on the plaza at Suzanne Della! in Tel Aviv.

Meyrav Gruber and Itcho A vital survey their marriage . ‘Cyprus’ at the Cameri Theater. CHARamaty)

TELEVISION

Ruth Kern “MADE in Australia” can be a warning label for viewers who have seen one-too-many corny, stat¬ ic, visually flat TV dramas from Down Under. In some ways; Vietnam, a miniseries about how one Aussie family is torov apart by their nation’s involvement in that war, is burdened by the same defects. Perhaps because the subject is so emo¬ tive (although we're used to seeing this theme through American eyes), the series manages to transcend its limitations. The cumulative effect is quite powerful.

Douglas Goddard is a politician who's spine¬ less in Canberra and an autocrar at home, his wife Evelyn is. a living-doormat, their sensitive

son. Phil is emotionally seared by his military service, and daughter Megan is drawn into the antiwar counterculture. The latter, for trivia fans, is played by a spunky Nicole Kidman, well before she became Mrs. Tom Cruise.

Even those who saw VUetman on Jordan TV a couple of years ago and/or insomniacs might want to tune into Episode 1 on Channel 2 at 1:25 a.m.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Michael ajzenstadt . THE1 Hebrew University Quartet - violinists

Vladimir Hefetz and Vera Skolnick, violist Prof. ■ Yehoash Hrrehberg and cellist Sharon GDboa- Greenstem'- performs at 6 tonight at the Old Masters Gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusa¬ lem. Those who prefer a different kind of musical beat can attend tire conceit of Los Chains, Victor and Look, in the museum's pre-Columbian gal¬ lery:, free with museum admission.

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ACROSS

1 Does it make the government sweet? (7,7)

• 9 Letter-opener with no known style? (S)

10 Bisque stirred without energy may. be • a disappointment at a fireworks party <5)

12 Architect employing northern wood 14)

13 Spirit of atom-smashers' ball? (10)

15 Boss of smaller post office merely eccentric? (8)

16 Greek island prepared to pamper people? (6)

18 Subjects not right in torrid zones (6)

20 She is not the gentlemen's first choice (8)

23 JFruit-cup alone at thrash? (10)

H4 A marine's "weapons (4) -.26 Lwndoth worn by lad, hot

indeed(5)«' 27 Clergy, in muddle with

antifreeze ingredient (8) 26It is .exaggerated, even

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3 We French , showing conunonsehse (4)

4 How unlucky this is, hire-tent collapsing! (8)

ate, to pour all over ice (6)

6 Girl’s to arrange hamper (10)

7 Doctors and nurse, perhaps, carrying note? (7)

8 Hands off in it? (11) U Such stuff means the end of

cricket, for example (11) 14 Cruel lacing once, now

hiding? (10)

17 Three tablets together, PC30 orders (8)

19 First woman with a hope-chest? (7)

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22 Does he keep records of lumberjack? (6)

25 Seabird in winter nesting-grounds (4)

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18 Greek fabulist (5) 19 Hypnotic state (6) 22 Big cat (5)

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TELEVISION

■ CHANNEL 1 6:30 News in Arabic 6:45 Cartoons 7:00 Good Morning Israel

■ EDUCATIONAL TV 8:00 Anthropology 8:30 Literature 8:56 Arithmetic 9:26 Young children's programs 9:55 Family relations 10:30 Literature 10:55 French 11:10 Mathe¬ matics 11:20 Science 11:35 English - 11:45 Israeli cinema in the 60s 12:15 Science end technology 12:40 Geogra¬ phy 13:00 The Taj Mahal 13:30 Chil¬ dren's programs

■ CHANNEL 1 15:30 Winnie the Pooh - cartoon 16:00 Heartbreak High 17:00 A New Evening 17;45 Sufti 18:15 News in English

ARABIC PROGRAMS 18:30 Apropos 18:00 News

HEBREW PROGRAMS 19:30 Hash mailt - video clips 20:00 Mabat 21:00 G.B.H. - British political drama 21:55 Chinese Hour - docu¬ mentary series 23:00 Mastermind - quiz show 23:30 News magazine

■ CHANNEL 2 13:00 Polly - Polly's parents die in a car accident and she moves in with her aunt who is the richest woman in a different town. She brings laughter and joy to a gray urban scene beset with inter-racial strife 14:00 Open Cards - youth issues 15:00 Disney time - the Little Mermaid (part 1] 16:00 The Bold and the Beautiful 17:00 Reshel at Five 17:30 First Love - romantic game show for youngsters 18:05 Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman (double episode) 20:00 News 20:30 Comedy Store 21:05 Hahamishia Hakamerit - local comedy 21:35 New six-part drama se¬ ries 22:15 No Mercy (1986) - action movie starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger (105 mins) 00:00 News 00:05 No Mercy (continued) 00:35 Another Love - part 18 01:25 Vietnam - Miniseries set in 1960s Australia fol¬ lows a soldier and his family on the home front Their lives will never be the same. 02:15 The Adventures of Ned Blessing - new, CBS Western series

■ JORDAN TV 13:00 Captain Planet - cartoon 13:30 Mantis - science fiction 14:00 Road to Avonlea 15:00 Families 16:00 French programs 18:35 You Bet Your Life 19:00 The Piglet Files - comedy 19:30 The Bold and the Beautiful 20:15 Women of the World 20:30 Pacific Sta¬ tion 21:00 News in English 21:25 Rus¬ sia: The Missing Years 22:30 New York Undercover - police drama 23:00 Grace Under Fire - comedy 23:30 Varieties

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TEL AVIV

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■ MIDDLE EAST TV 13:00 700 Club 13:50 Strike Force 11975) - Police investigate the killing of thpir fellow Officer's boy. Starring Cliff Gorman, Richard Gere and Donald Bla¬ keley (78 mins) 15:30 Moomins 15:55 Heath cliff 16:20 Inspector Gadget 16:45 Flying House 17:10 Documen¬ tary: Journey Across the World 18:10 Magnum P.I. 19:00 World News To¬ night (Arabic) 19:30 CNN Headline News 20:00 America's Funniest Home Videos 20:30 Star Trek: The Next Gen¬ eration 21:20 Babylon 5 22:10 700 Club

■ FAMILY CHANNEL (3) 8:00 Roxanne 9:00 One Life to Live 9:45 The Young and the Restless 10:30 Perfect Strangers 10:55 The Wonder Years 11:20 Celeste 12:10 Neighbors 12:35 Perry Mason 13:30 To be announced 14:05 St Elsewhere 14:55 Roxanne 15:40 Melrose Place 16:30 Neighbors 16:55 Antonella 17:45 Israeli Clips 18:00 One Ufa to Live 18:50 The Young and the Restless 19:30 Local broadcast 20:00 Celeste 20:50 Beverly Hills 90210 21:40 Friends 22:05 Robin's Hoods 22:50 Murphy Brown 23:20 Seinfeld 23:45 ENG 00:35 Lew and Order 1:25 Dan¬ gerous Curves

■ MOVIE CHANNEL (4) 10:30 Radio Days (1987) - (rpt) 12:00 Vera Cruz (1954) - Robert Aldrich's clas¬ sic Western stars Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper as two hired guns in¬ volved in a plot to overthrow Emperor Maximilian in 1860s Mexico (89 mins) 13:35 Thrs Girl for Hire 11983) - Bess Armstrong plays a private detective in¬ vestigating the murder of a writer (92 minsl 15:15 Our Winning Season (1978) - (rpt) 16:50 Suburban Com¬ mando (1991) - comedy starring Hulk Hogan as an alien who lands in the suburbs (86 mins) 18:15 What's New at the Movies 18:25 Samantha 11992) - (rpt) 20:10 Fortune Hunter 21:00 Road House (1989) - violent action movie. Patrick Swayze, a philosophy student and nighidub bouncer, is hired to dean up a Midwest saloon against the wishes of local mobster Ben Gazzara. 22:55 Terminator (1984) - Excellent futuristic actioner starring Amok) Schwarzeneg¬ ger as a robot sent back in time to the present day to kill the mother of the future rebel leader. Directed by James Cameron. With Linda Hamilton (102 mins) 00:40 Guncrazy (1992) - (rpt) 2:15 Cherry 2000 (1987) - (rpt)

■ CHILDREN [6) 6:30 Cartoons 8:00 Surprise Garden 9:00 Alvin and the Chipmunks 9:40 Spiderman 10:00 Mighty Max 10:35 Back to the Future 11:00 Family Ties 11:30 Crossroads 12:30 Surprise Gar¬ den 13:30 little Monsters 14:10 Cas¬ per and Friends 14:30 Mighty Max 15:09 Bade to the Future 15:30 Saved by the Bell 16:00 Lois and Clark 17:00 The Black Stallion 17:30 Suprise Gar¬ den 18:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks 19:10 Spiderman 19:30 Three's Com¬ pany 20:00 Married with Children 20:25 Perfect Strangers20:55Step by Step 21:20 Cheers 21:50 Clips

■ SECOND SHOWING (6) 22:00 Five Last Days (1982) - West German drama about the friendship be¬ tween two jailed women, one arrested by the Gestapo and the other a student active in aaanti-NazimovemenL'.Direct-

.ad by. Percy Adion.fPagdad Cafe) (1Q7 mins) 23:50 Hell to Eternity 0960).- WWIF drama based on the liffi'Of Gay Gabaldon. an American brought up by

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Japanese-Amerie&n foster parents, who joined the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lot of battle scenes and an anti-prejudice message. Direct¬ ed by Phil Karison. Starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen and Sessue Ha- yakawa (126 mins)

B DISCOVERY (8) 8:00 Open University: History 12:00 Cultural Cities of China 13:00 The Windsors 14:00 Open University (rpt of morning's programs) 16:00 Cultural Cities of China 17:00 The Windsors 18:00 Open University (rpt of morn¬ ing's programs) 20:00 Secret Life of the Office 20:30 in Search Of... 21:00 The Nature of Things 22:00 Special Forces 22:30 Fields of Armor 23:00 Secret Life of the Office 23:30 in Search Of... 00:00 Open University (rpt Of morning's programs)

■ ITV 3 (33) 17:00 Cartoons 17:30 Sage of the Ages 18:30 Open Studio (Arabic) 19:00 News in Arabic 19:30 Interna¬ tional art magazine 20:00 Doctors’ Talk (rpt) 20:30 5ongs 21:00 Mabat 22:00 Weekly Column

■ ETV 2 (23) 15:30 Full House - comedy 16:00 The World st War (rpt) 18:00 Keep Fit 18:15 The Young Riders 19:00 Cur¬ rent Affaire for children 19:30 Family Relations 20:00 A New Evening (with Russian subtitles] 20:30 Lubbock's Ten Sons 21:00 The World - A TV History 21:30 imagination Captivated by Reality

■ SUPER CHANNEL 6:00 FTN News 6:15 US Market Wrap 6:30 Steals and Deals 7:00 Today fea¬ turing UN World News and FT Business 9:00 Super Shop 10:00 European Money Wheel 14:00 Washington Re¬ port 14:30 Live from Wall Street 16:00 US Money Wheel 17:30 FT Business Tonight 18:00 FTN News 18:30 Us- huaia 19:30 The Selina Scott Show 20:30 Russia Now 21:00 Europe 2000 21:30 UN News 22:00 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 23:00 Major League Baseball 00:00 FT Business To¬ night 00:30 NBC News 1:00 Real Personal

■ STAR PLUS

6:00 Wind in the Willows 6:30 Playa- bout 7:00 The Sullivans 7:30 World Cuisine 8:00 El Features 8:30 Dona¬ hue 9:30 Santa Barbara 10:30 The Bold and the Beautiful 11:00 Oprah Winfrey 12:00 Riviera 12:30 World Cuisine 13:00 Aerobics 13:30 The Sul¬ livans 14:00 Small Wonder 14:30 Ro- bo tech 16:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 16:30 Batman 16:00 Home and Away 16:30 Entertainment To¬ night 17:00 M'A'S'H 17:30 Yanni Uv at the Acropolis 19:30 The Bold and the Beautifel 20:00 Santa Barbara 21:00 Hard Copy 21:30 Baywatch 22:30 Misfits of Sdence 23:30 Enter¬ tainment Tonight 00:00 Oprah Winfroy 1 ;00 Hard Copy

■ CHANNEL 5

7:00 — 8:30 Bodies in motion 16:00 Bodies in motion 16:30 Mad About the Wheel 17:00 Boxing 18:00 To be an¬ nounced 19:00 Premier league soccer roundup 20:00 The Price of Glory - drama about the Olympic committee 21:30 Mad About the Wheel 22:00 Invitation games 23:00 Argentinian league soccer 00:30 Boxing

■ EUROSPORT

8:30 Eurogolf 9:30 Sports dance

10:30 Bodybuilding 11:30 Soccer 12:30 Brazilian league soccer 13:30 Speed world 14:30 Triathlon 15:30 Live cycling from Spain 17:00 Athletics from Moscow 17:30 LiveIAAF athletics from Italy 19:00 Wrestling 19:30 Eur¬ osport news 20:00 Motoring magazine 22:00 Boxing magazine 23:00 Snook¬ er 1:00 Eurosport news

■ PRIME SPORTS

5:30 US Open tennis, day 8 11:00 EPGA golf 12:00 International motor¬ ing magazine 13:00 US Open tennis, day 816:30 Futbol mondial 17:00 Live US Open tennis, day 9 00:00 Futbol mondial 00:30 EPGA golf 1:30 Live US Open tennis, day 9

■ BBC WORLD

Nmu On the hour 6:00 BBC World News 9:15 Panorama 10:26 The Late Show 11:25 Time Out: Tomorrow's World 14:15 The Money Programme 16:10 World Business Report 16:25 Time Out Summer Holiday 17:15 Pan¬ orama 18:25 Tima Out: Film '95 21:05 Panorama 22:25 Time Out: Classic Ad¬ venture 23:25 World Business Report

■ CNN INTERNATIONAL

News throughout the day 7:30 Mon¬ eyline 8:30 World Report 9:45 CNN Newsroom 10:30 Showbiz Today 11:30 World Report 12:00 Business Day 13:30 World Sport 14:30 Busi¬ ness Asia 15:00 Larry King Live 15:30 OJ Simpson Special 16:30 World Sport 17:30 Business Asia 20:00 World Business Today 20:30 CNN World News 21:00 International Hour 21:30 OJ Simpson Special 23:00 World Business Today 23:30 World Sport 00:30 Showbiz Today

■ SKY NEWS

News throughout the day 6:30 ABC World News 7:00 Sunrise 10:30 Fashion TV 11:30 ABC Night- line 14:30 CBS News This Morning 16:30 Those Were the Days 16:30 Talking with David Frost 17:00 World News and Business Report 18:00 Live at Five 19:30 Tonight with Adam Bol¬ ton 21:00 World News and Business Report 21:30 The OJ Simpson Trial 2:30 CBS Evening News

RADIO

■ VOICE OF MUSIC 6:06 Musical Matinee 9:06 Scriabin: Prano sonata no 1 (Shinar); Balakirev: Romance; Stravinsky: Piano sonata in F sharp minor; Shostakovich: String quartet no 3 in F (St Petersburg), Piano concerto no 2 (Shostakovich/Moscow Radio); Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (St Petersburg PQfTemiritanov) 12:00 Light Classical - works by Meyerbeer 13:00 Alfred Brendel (piano) - Beetho¬ ven: Diabeili Variations 14:06 Encore 15:00 From the Recording Studio - Margalit Gafni (flute), Yisrael Castor- iano (piano). Retnecke: Ondine Suite op 167; Bozza: For the Flute op 38; Eldin Burton: Sonatina for flute and piano; Bach: Suite no 2 in B minor fpr flute and orch (Gafni/Kibbutz CO/Sheriffl 16:00 With Friends - pianist Daniel Baren¬ boim 18:00 New CDs - Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano (Mordkovich, Ben¬ son): Stravinsky: Les noces; MaxwelF Davies: Cross Lane Fair, Symphony no 5 (BBC PO/Philharmonia/composer) 20:05 From the World's Concert Halls- Hanns-Eisler: Septet no 2; Pavel' Hbas: Septet, for strings op 7/2; Beethoven: Septet in E flat op 20 22:00 A Musicaf Journey

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12 NEWS Tuesday, September 5,1995 The Jerusalem Post

Manhunt ends in coffee bar

with 43-year-old held for killing

former wife RA1NE MARCUS

A MAN who allegedly killed his ex-wife was captured yesterday morning while drinking beer at a Tel Aviv Central Bus Station cafe seven hours after the murder.

Amnon Harazi, 43, who has a criminal record for violence and theft, escaped after shooting AiieJa Shabar, 40, a mother of six, in the chest. She. died in the hospital, and was buried in Holon yesterday afternoon, Irim report¬ ed.

Police are still searching for the murder weapon, and Harazi is maintaining his innocence, al¬ though police said they have eye¬ witnesses' statements proving his guilt

According to police, Harazi ar¬ rived at his ex-wife's home in southern Tel Aviv just before 2 a.ra. She was ar home at the rime with her boyfriend and some of her children. He called her to come outside, then shot her.

Police initially believed that Harazi bad holed himself up in a nearby apartment and launched a massive search.

Shahar's children refused to talk to the press, breaking one reporter’s camera and pouring coffee over him, despite the pres¬ ence of border policemen who had been sent to keep order.

Throughout the day they swore to avenge their mother's death

and police have ordered them not to see Harazi for the next 30 days. Two of the victim's children are born her second marriage, which also ended in divorce.

Although neighbors said that Harazi and his wife had been at odds for the past 10 years, and that there had been violent fights between them, Shahar did not file a complaint with police.

“There were continual fights,*' said one neighbor. “It doesn’t

surprise me it ended (his way.” Neighbors also said that the

pair had owned a kiosk in the neighborhood and that police had suspected Harazi when it was burned to the ground.

“The relationship only deterio¬ rated after the torching,” said the neighbor.

Harazi is expected to appear in Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court far a remand hearing this morning.

Rain and cool just temporary LIGHT rain fell in several parts of the country yesterday and tem¬ peratures dropped to below the seasonal average - just a few days after summer time officially ended.

The advent of the autumnal weather, however, is expected to be shortlived and a rise in tem¬ peratures is forecast by the mid¬ dle of the week.

The meteorological service said the weather would remain partly cloudy today with a chance of further light and localized

DAVID RUDGE

showers, mainly in the north. These are expected to die out

in the course of the day and be followed on Wednesday by a gradual rise in temperatures to more normal levels for this time of year.

The rain yesterday was con¬ fined mainly to the coastal re¬ gion, including the Tel Aviv area and many places in the north, including Haifa, Beit She’an and the Galilee.

Strong winds bad a further cooling effect and whipped up waves along the coast to heights of over one-and-a-half meters in some areas.

This prompted the weather bu¬ reau to issue a warning to bathers.

Police reported that the rain had contributed to a spate of road accidents in the north and the coastal area, although there were no reports of any serious injuries as a result of the weather-related accidents.

Green activists launch campaign against proposed city of Irron

DAVID RUDGE and MfCHAL YUDELMAN

CONSERVATIONISTS led by the Environment Ministry yester¬ day launched a campaign against a Housing Ministry proposal to build a new city, to be known as Inon, in the heart of the Men- ashe hills region.

A packed meeting of environ¬ mentalists and local council heads at the Society for the Protection of Nature's (SPNI) field school at Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael came Out strongly against the plans.

The proposals call for the es¬ tablishment of a new city in the Ramot Menashe region that would start with the construction of 5,000 homes and eventually be home to 350,000 people.

The preliminary plans for Ir¬ ron, to be erected in the open wild area of Ramot Menashe at the outlets of the Menashe, Dalia and Taninim rivers, are to be pre¬ sented to the regional planning and construction commission af¬ ter the holidays. But a Housing

Ministry source said the construc¬

tion plans for Irron are still being examined.

Only after all the plans are ap¬ proved by the commission, will Housing Minister Binyamin Ben- Eliezer present them for cabinet approval, the ministry source said.

The source noted, however, that “the housing shortage in that area and all around Haifa is acute and more housing units are im¬ perative. There are no other land reserves left and the entire cen¬ tral region is saturated.”

Environment Minister Yossi Sand, who was among the partic¬ ipants at the meeting yesterday, declared he would use all the means in his power to veto the proposals.

Sand said the Housing Minis¬ try was apparently anxious to speed up the proposed project even though no decision had been taken by the relevant authorities.

He vowed that the present gov¬

ernment would not approve such a project

SPNI director-general Eitan Gedalison said the planned new city was against the long-term policies of the Interior Ministry and even the Honsing Ministry.

He stressed that Ramot Men¬ ashe is one of the few remaining "green areas” on the periphery of the central region. “Our country needs several green areas to al¬ low people space to breathe and move around freely,” Gedalison told reporters at the scene yesterday.

The Nature Reserves Author¬ ity has also voiced its complete opposition to the plan which it said would destroy areas of natu¬ ral beauty and endanger wildlife.

Similar comments were ex¬ pressed by local authority leaders and residents who maintained that efforts should be concentrat¬ ed on developing and expanding existing settlements, while pre¬ serving natural assets.

Exchange of heavy fire with

Hizbullah DAVID RUDGE

HEAVY exchanges were again reported in south Lebanon yes¬ terday following long-range at¬ tacks in the morning by Hizbullah gunmen on IDF and Sooth Leba¬ nese Army positions inside the security zone.

Reports from Lebanon said the positions, in the Ali Tahr hill range in the zone’s eastern sec¬ tor, came under mortar, anti¬ tank and light weapons fire. -

There were no casualties and no damage as a result of the shooting and IDF and SLA gun¬ ners returned fire.

The exchanges lasted for sever¬ al hours. Hizbullah radio said its gunmen had attacked positions in the Dabs ha area from close quar¬ ters and that residents of Naba- tiya had been “overjoyed to wit¬ ness the attack.”

There were no reports of any casualties among Hizbullah gun¬ men as a result of the IDF and SLA shelling. One report on a Lebanese radio station, however, said a resident of Tibnit village had been wounded by IDF sniper fire. There was no confirmation of this report from any other sources.

Lebanese radio stations also reported that a number of homes in the Nabatiya and Roumane ar¬ eas had been badly damaged by IDF and SLA she Ding

Representative number of Ethiopians make it to college HAIM SHAPIRO THE percentage of students of

Ethiopian origin who will study in institutions of higher learning this year will be about the same as the percentage of immigrants from Ethiopia in the general popula¬ tion, the Education Ministry an¬ nounced yesterday.

The ministry was reacting to a report by the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews, which ac¬ cused educators of sending youngsters of Ethiopian origin into vocational tracks without

testing their ability. The report, on the absorption

of Ethiopian Jews into the educa¬ tional system, was presented to rhe Knesset Education Commit tee chairwoman Dalia Itzik yesterday.

Ethiopian immigrants testified during the Knesset press confer¬ ence that some schools, such as a junior high school in Gedera and the Ramle-Lod High School had

accepted only three of 14 out¬ standing Ethiopian pupils who applied.

Prof. Reuven Feurstein, an Is¬ rael Prize laureate in education, said extensive tests carried out by his staff indicated that Ethiopian children have a high potential

“They must be given the tools to learn,* Feurstein said.

He added that be did not be¬ lieve the Ethiopian immigrants had been given this opportunity by the school system.

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Eli Dayan visits Egypt, POW issue on agenda

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Amnon ffarati, 43, who has a criminal record for violence and theft, is suspected of shooting his ex-wife, Ariela Shahar, 40.

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DEPUTY Foreign Minister Eli Dayan left for Egypt last night to get acquainted with top Egyptian officials, and discuss die peace process and the POW affair with them.

Today, Dayan will meet with Yusuf Waili, deputy prime minis¬ ter and agriculture minister, pres¬ idential adviser Osama Baz, and Foreign Minister Ami Moussa.

Bilateral relations and devel¬ opments in the peace process will Ire at top of the agenda during the meetings. Dayan will survey for his hosts recent developments in talks with the Palestinian Author¬ ity and with the Jordanians. He will also request an official sum¬ mary of the Syrian President Ha¬ fez Assad’s visit to Egypt Sunday.

Concerning the shooting of POWs, Dayan will make it dear that such, incidents, which took place on both sides, should not have occurred, and he will stress that both sides should notaBow thf»se incidents to dflmflgft future relations between the two countries.

However, Egyptian intellectu¬ als said in Cairo yesterday they would press for IDF army offices who had allegedly killed Egyp¬ tian POWs to be tried by a court like the one which dealt with leading Nazis after World War H

In a statement faxed to Reu¬ ters, a new committee of 89 pro¬ fessors, lawyers, researchers, journalists, military experts and politicians said (he court ghftnlri be called “The Sinai Internation¬ al Court for Trying Israeli War

Criminals**. Former IDF officers and Israeli

historians have taken Egypt by surprise by saying they either wit¬ nessed or took part in the killing of Egyptian prisoneis-of-war dur¬ ing the Sinai Campaign and tire Six Day War.

Egyptian President- Hosni Mu¬ barak says any Israelis, responsi¬ ble should be called to account.

He told reporters on Sunday the Mings remained under dis¬ cussion with Israel to see what could be done to satisfy Egyptian public opinion.

Opposition parties. Tiave been rrjtiHrmg the government for not taking fawngh action against Isra¬ el. Political Mamie groups and leftists have also used the issue to back their stand against peace and with IsraeL

Amir head of a human rights research group which 'initi¬ ated the “national fact-finding committee for tiro defense of Egyptian POWs,’’ said his group did not want a dash with foe gov- emmeati but should be prepared for one if necessary.

"If we have to dash with foe government’s policy of normal¬ ization, we win do that bat that is not our main purpose. We actnal- ly want tire government to help ns,” he sakL

“We want to prove .to the worid that they [tire Israelis] are the new Nazis and this is one of the most important purposes of this committee,” he told the meeting which s.et np the committee.

Prof. Nathan Spiegel, 89

NATHAN Spiegel, pro lessor, emeritus of classics at foe He¬ brew University of Jerusalem and a 1990 Israel Prize laureate, died yesterday in Jerusalem at age 89.

Bora in New York in 1905, Spiegel was educated in Austria and Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1957. For many years he taught Greek and Latin and worked to make the general Is¬ raeli public familiar with foe clas¬ sics, especially central figures in Greek and Roman culture. He retired in 1974. JP Staff

A basic trainee in the Edacation Corps paints the railing on the steps of a senior citizen’s home in tlberias yesterday, as part of a fix-op campaign the corps is conducting far the High Holy Days.

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MEWS IN BRIEF WUJS wins Quality of Life Prize . The Knesset Speaker* s Quality of Life Prize was awarded yesterday to the WUJS Institute in Arad for its advancement of Israel-Diaspora relations among Jewish students throughout the worid.

Clive Lessem, foe director of WUJS-Arad, accepted foe NIS 10,000 award for the institute. WUJS was cited for its unique accomplishments in Jewish-Zionist education and promotion of immigration toisrael from affluent countries, and . . also far its great contribution to strengthening ties between Diaspora Jewty and IsraeL Jerusalem Post Staff

(Continued from Page One) the community and Arafat are opposed to paying ransom lest it encourage farther thefts. Howev¬ er, Arafat would be amenable to some sort of exchange in kind, a object which is known in Arabic as hidiya, a gift.

Hie theft of the two ancient manuscripts comes as the Samari¬ tan community is concerned over' political developments that could leave it divided between those who live in the Nablus area and those in Holon. Before 1967, the two parts of tire community could only be together when they per¬ formed their ancient Pessab sacri-

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fice on ML Gerizim, near Nab¬ lus, asA even then some members of the community were kept from .' entering what was then Jordan.

In an effort to forestall any such problem'in the future, a del¬ egation of Samaritan leaders re¬ cently visited foe US and En-. gland, and met with State. Department and Foreign Office officials through the good offices of human rights organizations in both countries. The Samaritans suggested that they be given a special laissez passer,issued

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Karadzic had no right to an¬ nounce a pullback. He said foe withdrawal could be ordered only by foe rebels’ self-styled parlia¬ ment after a public referendum — something neither NATO nor tire United Nations, which have bees

SERB pressuring the Serbs for a quick response, are likely to agree to.

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Five flights a week JORDAN and land , are expect¬ ed to «ep an aviation agreement next week -and; flights between Ted' Aviv and Animas will dart op days later, foe head of Aritia Israeli Airlines Ltd. said, yesterday.

Arkia president Israel Boro- vich said foe. government had yet to 'decide whether tire privately held Aritia or state-owned B A1 Israel Airlines would fly to Amman.

Jordanian and Israeli last week said they had settled all aspects of an aviation accord that would allow flights between the countries, except for airport secu¬ rity measures.

The two sides agreed to five weekly flights between Amman and Td Aviv.

An agreement was also reached to expand Jordan’s Aqa¬ ba airport to Israelis use it for passengers heading to Eilat. This will transform Aqaba info tire re¬ gional airport, Borovich said

“To get permission to fly to Eilat now we will have to apply to tire - Jordanian government;” Bor-, avjch said. “I see a tot of prob¬ lems wifathe solution.” \ Hesaid this would also present marketing difficulties for Israeli tour operators. -

• “Until now Israel has: promot¬ ed a. destination called Eilat. Now this destination is gone,” he said.. " (Reuter)

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.Arab-XsraeU Section of tire For¬ eign Office, fold Tsedaka that it is very wise to bring up foe idea now, not leave it for later. -..

. *T hope we will never have to use [the: laissez passerJ_ and if we do, I hppe bofa sides wtil honor it” Tsedaka sakL

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