10A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WORLD NEWS
Palestinians leave church, standoff
The Associated Press
BETHELHEM, West Bank — Twenty-six Palestinian civilians and police emerged one by one yesterday from the Church of the Nativity, the largest group to leave one of Christianity's holiest shrines since the monthlong standoff began between Israel's army and a group of armed militants inside.
Israel, meanwhile, defied the United Nations and blocked an inquiry into fighting at the Jenin refugee camp where Palestinians claim Israeli soldiers conducted a massacre of civilians
in eight days of house-to-house fighting.
U. N. diplomats said Secretary-General Kofi Annan was leaning toward disbanding the mission. Annan said he had done everything possible to meet Israeli demands to modify the mission.
In the West Bank town of Jericho, U.S. and British security experts toured the local prison yesterday in another step in a U.S.-backed deal designed to release Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from months of Israeli confinement.
Six Palestinians who are
wanted by Israel and are holed up in Arafat's besieged headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah would be moved to the Jericho prison under U.S. and British supervision, paving the way for Arafat to leave his compound. Palestinian officials said the prisoner transfer could take place within 24 hours, but Israel said there was no agreed upon timetable.
U. S. and British security experts met with Palestinian officials in Ramallah late yesterday to finalize the technical details of the prisoner transfer
Yarden Vatikay, an adviser to
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Elezer, said Israel would not withdraw tanks from Arafat's compound until he received word from U.S. officials that the prisoners were in jericho.
Late yesterday, a 2-year-old girl was killed when Israeli tanks opened fire near the Gaza-Egypt border, witnesses and a Palestinian doctor said. Israelimilitarysources said militants set off an explosive and soldiers fired a tank shell, hitting one of the bombers.
WEDNESDAY,MAY1,2002
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf moved toward winning five more years as Pakistan's president in a nationwide referendum yesterday, although the apparent low voter turnout could weaken his authority in cracking down on Islamic extremism.
Musharraf, who came to power in a bloodless 1999 coup, hoped for a high turnout
them in prisons and gas stations were not expected before Wednesday.
that would lend him a stamp of legitimacy, but Pakistani voters seemed largely to ignore the referendum.
Opposition political parties criticized the referendum as unconstitutional but lost their legal effort to prevent yesterday's vote. Then they called for a voter boycott.
Information Minister Nisar Memon predicted a voter turnout of about 30 percent, down from the 38 percent in the 1997 general elections. More than 60 million people were eligible to vote.
Election in Pakistan draws low turnout
"Most of the polling stations in the province remained deserted throughout the day," Maulana Fazle ur-Rehman, a prominent pro-Taliban cleric in
The Associated Press
Very early returns showed Musharraf advancing toward an overwhelming victory.
the deeply conservative southwestern Baluchistan province, said in a statement.
With 429,780 votes counted from 708 polling stations six hours after polls closed last night, 345,427 ballots supported extending Musharraf's term. Only 9,774 opposed it. The rest were ruled invalid.
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