NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 6, 1994
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Syria claims land that Israel is not ready to give up
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration supports Syria's claim to the Golan Heights, but Israel is not prepared to surrender all of the strategic territory in exchange for a peace treaty, a top official in 'israel's ruling Labor Party said yesterday.
"We are prepared to make concessions on the Golan but not to go down completely." Nissim Zvill, the party's secretary-general, said in outlining the status of Arab-Israeli negotiations on all four fronts to a B'nai B'ith conference.
In exchange for peace, Syria demands a total Israeli pullout from the territory Syria lost in the 1967 Mideast war. Earlier, the Golan was a platform for cross-border attacks on Israel.
Zvili said a historic peace agreement with Jordan that would launch Israel and the Arab kingdom on unprecedented economic cooperation needed only a green light from King Hussein to be signed.
And he said Israel would withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon within 24 hours if Lebanon guaranteed the security of northern Israeli villages from cross-border attack as well as the safety of a largely Christian Lebanese force that has helped protect Israel's border.
'Moral vision' lacking in U.N. plan, Vatican says
Right to abortion is cause for concern
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The Vatican criticized a liberal U.N. blueprint on world population yesterday, saying it lacks "a clear ethical vision" and was wrong to include the idea of a basic right to abortion.
The draft program calls for individual free choice in family planning, universal access to information on appropriate methods of contraception and the right to safe abortion. It emphasizes the empowerment of women, better education for women and full equality between the sexes.
Earlier, U.S. delegate Timothy Wither repeated the Clinton administration's position on the need for universal access to voluntary family planning information and methods and a woman's right to choose a safe abortion.
Monsignor Diarmuid Martin, the Holy See's chief delegate, complained that the U.N. draft "is marked by an extremely individualistic understanding of the person and of human sexuality."
The envoys were speaking on the second day of a two-week world conference to negotiate a final draft of a 20-year program for stabilizing the world's population. The draft will be adopted at an international conference in Cairo, Egypt, in September.
The Holy See "cannot support any concept of 'reproductive rights' which would include abortion as an
appropriate means of family planning or the notion of an internationallyrecognized fundamental right to abortion," Martin said.
Martin objected that the draft makes no reference to natural family planning, the only method sanctioned by the Catholic Church. He also emphasized the importance of moral education and self-restraint in objecting to the acceptance that adolescents will be sexually active.
The Roman Catholic Church opposes all means of artificial contraception and says human and family values of the sanctity of all life transcend what many consider a woman's individual right to choose any means to limit her number of children.
Although the Vatican, some observant Muslims and some other religious groups want to emphasize more spiritual and what they call family values, the conference itself was not expected to significantly dilute its commitment to individual choice in family planning.
Conference chair Fred Sal of Ghana said in rebuttal from the podium, "One questions ... the ethics of trying to impose the views of one group on the rest of mankind."
Population conference officials say the draft is enlightened, ethical and realistic.
Wirth, the U.S. delegate, meanwhile said, "Good quality voluntary family planning and the full range of reproductive health services should be universally available early in the next century. Coercion must be absent from all such programs."
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