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PLO, Israel prepare to sign treaty
The Associated Press
TUNIS, Tunisia — PLO leaders and Israel swept away one of the major obstacles to Mideast peace yesterday when they agreed to recognize each other and take the risky path to peace.
The mutual recognition agreement, worked out during months of secret meetings, cleared the way for a separate pact that will give Palestinians a measure of self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war.
It is a risk both for Yitzhak Rabin, whose Israeli government is under attack by hard-liners who refuse to cede an inch of what they consider the biblical land of Israel, and for Yasser Arafat, who is already wanted by guerrillas who consider him a traitor.
accord on Palestinian self-rule in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank town of Jericho, sad norway's foreign minister, Johan Jorgen Holst.
President Clinton called the agreement "a very brave and courageous thing" between the two enemies.
The two sides are to sign the recognition agreement separately in Jerusalem and Tunis, and on Monday in Washington they will sign an
Under the recognition agreement, the Palestine Liberation Organization would renounce terrorism and recognize Israel's right to exist. The agreement on self-rule could eventually lead to a more comprehensive autonomy for Palestinians in lands captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
Texts of the unsigned recognition letters were released by Rabin's office yesterday.
Arafat, in a letter to Rabin, pledged that the PLO will renounce terrorism and declared that sections of the PLO covenant calling for Israel's destruction are "no longer valid."
Rabin, in a letter to his longtime enemy, said Israel had decided to recognize the PLO "as the representative of the Palestinian people" and vowed to start negotiations with the organization.
The letters, written in English, were to be signed in simultaneous ceremonies in Tunis and Jerusalem. The
prime minister's office said Rabin would sign the letter in his office at 9 a.m. today (2 a.m. CST).
"The importance of the agreement reached today is that it is a historical breakthrough which was the result of the foresight, vision and courage of chairman Arafat and the leadership of Israel." Holt told reporters in Tunis
In Jerusalem, Rabin's 10-member inner Cabinet voted unanimously to approve the mutual recognition clearing the way for Rabbinot sign.
"The PLO has received a telephone call a few minutes ago saying that the Israeli side has accepted the final wording of the statement on mutual recognition," said Yasser Abed-Rabbo, one of the Palestinian officials closest to Arafat.
He said that the call came from Norwegian intermediaries in Paris and that Arafat would announce the agreement at a news conference scheduled for today.
In Washington, Hanan Ashrawi, representative for the Palestinian delegation at the Mideast peace talks, said.
"There are very few moments in history that are comparable to this moment."
She said the agreement "recognizes Palestinian national rights and allows for genuine reconciliation based on the rights of both peoples to live in the region."
Arafat appeared to have the necessary majority for approval by the Executive Committee, with backing from nine of the committee's 13 attending members.
In the Syrian capital Damascus, radical Palestinian guerrilla commander Ahmed Jibril predicted Arafat would be assassinated and his acceptance of partial autonomy would not be honored.
"I am not saying that I personally will kill Arafat." Jibril said Wednesday night in an interview with Western reporters.
"I am saying that the people will not be lenient with a man who has given away 90 percent of their land. When Arafat is killed, the accord will fade away," he said.
20 years later, coup leader not a threat in Chile
The Associated Press
SANTAGO. Chile — It has been 20 years since Gen. August Pinochet led a bloody coup that destroyed one of Latin America's longest-lasting democracies. Now he's getting some credit — albeit grudgingly — for returning Chile to its democratic roots.
After ruling for 16% years, Pinochet handed power to President Patricio Aylwin in 1990 but remained commander of the army.
The move angered his critics, but some of them now say it helped keep the army in check during a crucial transition.
"I think Pinochet has been an element restraining those who wanted a more autonomous position for the military," Ricardo Lagos, a leading socialist in the fight against Pinochet, told the Santiago daily El Mercurio.
"It's better to talk to a single person and not to many," he added, referring to Pinochet's uncontested control of the army.
On Sep 11, 1973, Pinochet led the armed forces in an uprising against Marxist President Salvador Allende amid a deep economic crisis and social unrest.
As his palace was under ground and air attack. Allende committed suicide, becoming a martyr for leftists in Chile and abroad.
U. S. President Richard Nixon's administration did not back the coup, but it had been involved in destabilizing Allende through covert operations, supplying funds to his opponents and promoting civil unrest.
This is a new light on Pinochet's role in history.
But as Marxism collapsed around the world, Allende's legacy faded. Even in Chile, his own Socialist Party has abandoned the hard-line Marxist ideology he promoted for decades.
Pinchet, meanwhile, has been harshly criticized for his human rights record. According to government figures, 2,215 people were killed, 1,000 more disappeared after being arrested by security forces, and thousands were tortured, arrested or forced into exile under his reign.
show of force last May to protest media coverage of officers being tried for human-rights violations, few see the military as a threat to democracy.
Aylwin's four-year term is widely considered successful, but the president himself still thinks there is work to be done mending military-civilian relations and settling rights issues.
In spite of occasional tensions, including an army
Although Pinochet is generally no longer seen as a threat to democracy, his controversial comments on a variety of subjects keep him in the news.
He once described members of the German army as "marijuana smokers, homosexuals" and "long-haired unionists."
He caused an uproar when 30 victims of his regime's repression were found at a local cemetery. Several coffins had two bodies, a move Pinochet said was a good way to save cemetery space.
Still tomorrow will be a legal holiday, as the government has failed to master a congressional majority to repel the Pinochet-issued law that established the holiday.
The Associated Press
Aylwin has several times summoned Pinochet to the palace for a reprimand.
U.S. troops fire upon women, children assailants in Somalia
their way.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. Cobra helicopters fired on Somali women and children yesterday in what the United Nations claimed was "a last-resort" effort to keep them from killing peacekeepers
Nearly residents said the street was littered with the bodies of as many as 100 Somalis. A U.N. representative said a Pakistani soldier was killed, and three Americans and two Pakistanans were injured.
The peacekeepers had come under fire from heavy weapons by Somali militiamen and were trying to withdraw when women and children joined in the attack with grenades and small arms, said Mai David Stockwell.
Stockwell, the chief U.N. military representative, initially said a mob of women and children was swarming over the U.N. vehicles when the helicopters fired on them with 20mm cannons.
Later, however, he said that the women and children had joined militiamen in attacking the soldiers from behind walls lining the route of their withdrawal and were clambering over roadblocks in
"When the helicopters came in they shot at the gunmen behind the walls and the women and children who were actively engaged as combatants as well." Stockwell said. "Whoever was behind the walls was shot at.
"There were some people swarming on the roadblocks, but not directly on the vehicles ... and the helicopters shot down the middle of the road to persuade people to leave." Stockwell said.
The incident was sure to fire the debate in Congress over U.S. involvement in Somalia and to add fuel to the arguments of some U.N. members, notably Italy, that the United Nations has lost sight of its humanitarian mission in the country.
Stockwell blamed the attack on the forces of fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who is wanted by the United Nations for a series of assaults that have killed 48 peacekeepers and wounded more than 175 since May.
Stockwell said he had no information on the number of Somalis killed or wounded but said, "What I am acknowledging is that if you go out there tomorrow.
row, you may find some women and children casualties."
The report of scores of Somalis killed could not be independently confirmed. But Stockwell acknowledged that U.N. troops, tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters used "heavy casualty-producing weapons" in defending themselves.
The U.S. Senate is debating whether to push for an end to the United States' Somalia involvement, which was initiated to ensure delivery of humanitarian aid and restore stability. More than 350,000 Somalis died in 1992.
Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said yesterday that U.S. troops should stay in Somalia "for the foreseeable future" to ensure the success of the U.N. operation there and to preserve the United States' credibility.
The battle was broken off as dusk fell over the city with Somalia still in control of the road.
n three Americans wounded were evacuated by helicopter to a U.S. field hospital, where Stockwell said they were in stable condition. They were not identified.
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