Thursday, November 11, 1999 The University Daily Kansan Section A · Page 5 Nation/World Israel to remove some troops from West Bank The Associated Press JERUSALEM — Forced to choose between Jewish settlers and Palestinian demands, Prime Minister Ehud Barak kept Israel's commitment to the Palestinians yesterday, approving a troop pullback from 5 percent of the West Bank and sending soldiers to drag Jews off an illegal hilltop encampment. The land handover, to take place Monday, will leave a smattering of West Bank settlements isolated and surrounded by Palestinian-controlled territory — setting the stage for more tensions. Barak has spent his four months in office making good on promises to revive the peace process, while reassuring Jewish settlers that he sympathizes with their mission to reclaim biblical lands. Pakistanian and settler claims to the same rocky hills seemed increasingly irreconcilable, however, and scenes televised yesterday of soldiers holding red-faced settlers in headlocks could be a glimpse into the future. Soldiers moved in on Havat Maan as light crept from Israel's coast over its plains and up the West Bank's layered hills. Settlers climbed on rooftops, clung to door frames and flung themselves to the ground, making it harder for the unarmed troops to forcibly evacuate them. "We'll be back!" the settlers shouted as they were taken away. The strongest resistance came from settlers holed up in a makeshift wooden synagogue. "Refuse orders," they chanted as soldiers broke through the door. Havat Maon is one of 42 outposts set up during the past year to stake a claim to as much West Bank land as possible — and prevent the territory from being handed to the Palestinians as part of peace negotiations. Barak's predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, didn't challenge the unauthorized settlements, but Barak has tried to limit their construction. Under a deal with Barak, the setters movement had agreed to leave 12 sites voluntarily, including Havat Maon, in exchange for government approval of the other 30 But a renegade settlers group, "Young Generation," rejected the compromise. In recent days, members have carpeted the hilltop with sleeping bags, reinforced caravans with cement and rolled boulders into the road. Credibility is key issue in dragging death trial The Associated Press JASPER, Texas — The defendant's credibility will be the issue when jurors decide whether a third white man should join two ex-roommates on death row for dragging a black man to his death, prosecutors said yesterday. Shawn Allen Berry's defense attorney told jurors Berry was afraid for his own life and decided not to stop the beating that culminated with the June 7, 1998, death of James Bryd Jr. "We all feel there is a moral responsibility to stop it, but there is no legal responsibility," said Joseph C. "Lum" Hawthorn, Berry's lawyer. "Shawn felt like, well, he was scared. That does not make him guilty." Attorney made their opening remarks and testimony began today after Judge Joe Bob Golden denied a defense motion to move the trial because of extensive media coverage. Golden said he thought the request was an attempt to delay the trial. Berry, 24, could receive the death penalty for his alleged role in Byrd's death. Lawyers on both sides noted today that Berry was not adorned with racist tattoos and did not write racist letters like John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer, two men who shared a Jasper apartment with him at the time of the slaving. Jasper County District Attorney Guy James Gray said, the three knew each other and Berry had been partying with them, drinking with them and running with them. "The evidence will show you the choice to pick up James Byrd was made by Shawn Berry," Gray said. "He knew what the men were like that he was living with. He knew they wanted to kill a black man when he picked him up." Hawthorn said Berry was aware of his roommates' racist views but did not think they posed danger of killing anybody. He said Berry frequently offered rides to people walking along the road. Robot finds data recorder of EgyptAir Flight 990 The Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Nine days after EgyptAir Flight 990 went down, a robot raised the banged-up flight data recorder from the ocean floor yesterday. Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board began working on the tape immediately after it arrived by helicopter. Early readings were possible by late yesterday if the tape was not damaged. The minivan-size robot Deep Drone found the box amid wreckage 250 feet below the surface. It was missing its pinger, the transmitter that emits a signal to help investigators find the recorder after an accident. The tape could provide the best evidence of what caused the Boeing 767 to plunge into the sea off the Massachusetts island of Nantucket Oct. 31, killing all 217 people aboard. "It will paint a picture of the aircraft moments before the accident," said safety board chairman James Hall. "In any aviation accident investigation, the most important information comes from the recorders." The flight recorder captures information from 55 systems on the jet, telling investigators such things as the plane's altitude, speed, spin, roll, and how the autopilot functioned. Deep Drone continued to search for the other "black box," the cockpit voice recorder. As the search continued, a Coast Guard helicopter flew above the crash site and dropped flowers that had been left at a memorial service Sunday by grieving family members. Flight 990 took off from New York's Kennedy Airport for Cairo and fell 33,000 feet into the Atlantic about 60 miles south of Nantucket. 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