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Israel, PLO await revisions
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are marking time while secret talks continue elsewhere about mutual recognition by Israel and the PLO and about who will sign a new agreement on Palestinian self-rule.
The talks are designed to lead to simultaneous statements in which the Palestine Liberation Organization revisits its charter to renounce terrorism and Israel accepts the group as the legitimate representative of the 1.8 million Palestinian in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Tuesday night, PLO and Israeli officials left Oslo, where they had met secretly since Sunday, said PLO representatives. "We returned the officials returned to their headquarter."
Also, Egypt has launched a mediation effort to bridge differences over the text of the mutual-recognition accord, Shaah said.
ters in Tunis, where they continued their contacts with the Israelis by phone, he said in an interview.
One of the stumbling blocks, he said, is how the PLO charter must be revised — as Israel insists — to remove references to the organization's goal of dismantling the Jewish state. He said a revision of the charter would require the approval of the PLO's executive committee and possibly of its mini-parliament, the Central Committee.
Shaath said he could not predict when all these details would be made
20, establishing Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza, is ready for signature once it is decided who will sign for Israel and for the Palestinians, he said.
A declaration of principles completed
ed in the back-channel talks on Auc
Shaath said his organization was seeking a presence at the signing, possibly at the level of the PLO's foreign minister.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was feted with bouquets of roses at a Palestinian school, but later he was pelted with eggs and called a traitor when he visited a Jewish neighborhood.
In the Middle East on Tuesday, protests were staged by Jewish hardliners, Islamic fundamentalists and dissident PLO factions.
Jerusalem, whereas militant Arabs questioned settling for less than a state at this stage.
Many Israelis worried about giving PLO leader Yasser Arafat a toehold on the West Bank, some 20 miles from
But Arafat told reporters Tuesday he was not giving up claims on Jerusalem.
"Whoever would relinquish an inch from Jerusalem is not an Arab or a Muslim," said the PLO leader, who lived in the Arab capital Abqaiq to lobby for the nact.
Pakistani negotiators told their Israeli counterparts at a one-hour session Tuesday at the State Department that as things stood now, they might not agree to sign the agreement. The Pakistaniers were awaiting clarifications and instructions from Arafat.
Israel's Cabinet has already endured it, and Rabin reportedly hopes to take the signed agreement to his parliament for approval by Sept. 9.
Bush aides named in Iran-Contra
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Two aides to Vice President Bush engaged in "acts of concealment" to protect the Reagan White House from being linked to a secret Contra aid network after one of its planes was shot down in 1986, Iran-Contra prosecutors concluded in their final report.
Excerpts obtained by The Associated Press from the still-unreleased report say "there was strong evidence that following the shootout" of the plane, Bush's national security aides Donald Gregg and Samuel Watson "were aware of (Oliver) North's connection to the resupply operation."
Both Bush aides "remained silent as administration representatives stated that there was no U.S. involvement in the flight," said the report by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh.
Contraproducere
Gregg and Watson have said they had only vague
knowledge of the operation that funneled weapons to the Contra rebels and that they did not realize that North, then a White House aide, was running it.
The excerpts reveal that Walsh investigated Gregg and Watson "for possible false testimony" when they denied knowing that Felix Rodriguez, a longtime friend of Gregg, was working for North.
Rodriguez had "informed" (Gregg and Watson) of North's involvement" in the Contra operation and "Rodriguez called Watson to tell him the downed plane was one of North's," the report said. Prosecutors, however, decided there was not enough evidence to cool criminal charges.
"Despite these acts of concealment ... the evidence did not prove that Watson or Gregg committed chargeable offenses ... beyond a reasonable doubt," the excerpts said.
Gregg's lawyer, Judah Best, declined comment on the excerpts. "When the report is finally released, I
will undoubtedly have an observation," he said. Watson's lawyer, Jacob Siebel, said he wants to see "the people."
Walsh submitted his final report on the scandal a month ago to a special three-judge federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.
The judges are giving people named in the report until Oct. 4 to respond in writing. Operating under strict secrecy, the judges are not distributing copies of the report to defense lawyers. They have invited Iran-Contra figures named in the report to examine portions of the report pertaining to them.
The excerpts obtained by the AP are a 600-word sliver of a massive multivideo document.
Criminals released by African dictator
The excerpts do not address the question of whether Bush knew about the secret Contra resupply network, which North set up after Congress banned U.S. military assistance to the rebels fighting the leftist government of Nicaragua.
BANGUI, Central Africa Republic
BENGUT Central Africa replenish-
生-proclaimed Emperor Jean-
bal Rousseau, accused of
ism and slaughtering schoolchildren,
walked out of prison a free man with
all the nation's other criminals yester-
day.
In a stunning move, outgoing military dictator Gen. Andre Kolongba ordered freedom for all inmates in the nation's 20 prisons, including the 72-year-old tyrant infamous for his brutality and greed.
More than 3,000 people cheered Bokassa as he left his cell at a military barracks on the grounds of the presidential Renaissance Palace.
"Victory to Bokasa!" they shouted.
"Bokasa for president!"
retire and live like the peasant he was before he was orphaned at age 6 and adopted by French missionaries.
Bokassa, frail, hunched over and with his hair and beard turned white, told his supporters that he had found God in prison. He said he wanted to
Opposition leader Abel Goumba charged that Kolingba was unleashing the criminals to punish Central Africans for trouncing him in elections Aug 22.
Kolingba placed fourth in the election with only 12.1 percent of votes, the Supreme Court said yesterday.
Ange-Felix Patasea, a former prime minister under Bokassa who led with 37.3 percent of votes, will contest a run-off with Goumbia, the second place finisher, on Sept. 12.
Goumba said Bokassa's supporters were in the minority. But it was unclear how his release would affect the elections.
"He has always insisted that he was the emperor for life of Central Africa," Goubmba said. "Who can predict what he may do?"
Tests find math deficit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Few U.S. students can solve math problems that require more than an educated guess, as shown by statistics unveiled yesterday by the Department of Education.
Only 16 percent of fourth-graders, eight percent of eighth-graders and nine percent of high school seniors tested could answer mathematics questions requiring problem solving skills according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The results show that students are "getting few opportunities to participate in problem solving in classrooms," said John Dossey, a visiting math professor at the U.S. Military Academy and former president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
tests, the new tests did not give students a choice of answers. Instead, students were required to draw pictures and diagrams and write explanations of their answers.
"Here, we see what a student is capable of doing," Dossey said, adding that a multiple-choice test question with five potential answers gave the student a 20 percent chance of guessing correctly.
Fourth graders were asked to use words and pictures to show that a boy named Jose who ate half a pizza could have eaten more pizza than a friend, Ella, who ate half of another pizza.
Unlike traditionally standardized
The answer was Jose could have eaten half of a larger pizza. But less than a fourth of the students — 23 percent — gave a satisfactory or better answer. Nearly half — 49 percent — gave an incorrect answer. Seven percent did not respond.
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