NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 8, 1994
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Muslim extremists issue warning
Mosque massacre delays schedule for peace talks
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Soldiers shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank and guerrillas killed nine people in Israeli held south Lebanon as violence erupted anew yesterday amid efforts to revive stalled Mideast peace talks.
Muslim extremists warned they will unleash suicide attacks on Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, saying Israelis will "cry in blood" for the Feb. 25 mosque massacre in Hebron.
The turmoil and threat of further
bloodletting came after PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and an Israeli envoy, Jacques Nerich, in metai yesterday to discuss resuming the talks. It was the first such face-to-face meeting since the massacre.
Gad Ben-Ari, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's representative, said in Jerusalem: "There are intensive efforts being made, and we hope the negotiations will resume in the shortest possible time."
Rabin, seeking to broaden his coalition government and strengthen his negotiating position by bringing in the right-wing Tsomet Party, was more sanguine.
Any delay getting the talks back on track heightens the risk that "crazies" on both sides would strike again, he said hours before yesterday's violence.
Rabin said later: "The terrible massacre and the atmosphere of vengeance in the Arab world have created a difficult reality which obliges us to make immediate and hard decisions."
The Palestinians were shot to death in Hebron, where the Feb. 25 mosque massacre took place, after an army jeep was stoned near the town's Israeli headquarters.
Four other Arabs were wounded in clashes after the Israeli lifts a 10-day-old curfew to allow townspeople to buy food.
The killings, the first since Friday, raised to 29 the toll in the aftermath of the mosque slaughter, in which 30 Muslims were gunned down by a Jewish settler as they prayed.
Other clashes were reported yesterday in Bethlehem, where troops fired
tear gas to break up a demonstration at the university.
In the Gaza Strip, Associated Press photographer Jannah Gaps III, a 35-year-old American, was shot in the leg by an Israeli army sniper.
“There were no rocks being thrown or anything.” Gaps said from his hospital bed. “I was taking pictures of him, and then I saw him draw down, and I knew he was going to shoot.”
The army said a soldier and a police officer were wounded in Gaza by a gunman in a car who opened up on them after crashing a roadblock.
In south Lebanon, Muslim guerrillas killed seven militiamen of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army when three bombs exploded in Israel's self-designated "security zone," security sources said.
Supreme Court gives protection to satirical art
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave the satirical art of parody more protection against copyright law yesterday, a ruling that may let the group 2 Live Crew beat the rap of ripping off the rock classic "Oh, Pretty Woman."
Pardoles that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder, the court ruled unanimously in a case closely watched by the entertainment industry.
"Like less ostensibly humorous forms of criticism, (parody) can provide social benefit, by shedding light on an earlier work, and, in the process, creating a new one," Justice David Souter wrote for the court.
The 2 Live Crew parody uses much of the Roy Orbison song's music and the first line of lyrics: "Pretty woman, walking down the street." Then it shifts to "big hairy woman," "bold-headed woman" and "two-timin' woman."
The ruling is "a great victory for free speech and funny people," said William Lane, an attorney for satirist Mark Russell and the comedy group the Capitol Steps.
U.N. expects trouble on new front
The Associated Press
GORNJI VKUF, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The United Nations braced for trouble on one front and declared peace on another yesterday, moving battle tanks to Tuzla airport while proclaiming the Croat-Muslim war in central Bosnia over.
Bosnian Serbs reluctantly agreed a week ago to permit the United Nations to use Tuzla airport for flights of the kind that has kept Sarajevans fed since war broke out 23 months ago.
Plans call for the airport, in the heart of the largest single piece of Bosnian territory under Muslim control, to reopen this month.
A U.N. representative, Maj. Rob Annik, said four platoons of Swedish
and Danish troops totaling about 480 soldiers rolled into the airport yesterday. Two of the units were platoons manning 10 German-made Leopard 1A5 tanks armed with 105mm cannon.
Elsewhere, Bosnian Serbs pounded Maglaj, in northern Bosnia, and blocked critical aid shipments to the isolated pocket of government territory.
But most of the rest of Bosnia was calm yesterday, almost four weeks into a truce between government forces and Serbs around Sarajevo and one-and-a-half weeks into a separate government-Croat cease-fire in central Bosnia.
There were sporadic violations of the central Bosnian truce. But after
mediating an agreement affirming the cease-fire, Brig. Gen. John Reith of Britain described it as a "historic moment."
"Effectively the war between Muslims and Croatians has ceased," he said.
Reith said all but 1.2 miles of the Muslim-Croat battle front were covered by the truces.
Bosnian radio reported heavy shelling of Maglaj yesterday morning, despite a planned cease-fire intended to permit an exchange of bodies of soldiers.
About 200,000 people are dead or missing in the war that began April 1992 when Serbs rebelled against Muslims and Croats who seceded from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.
GOP senators propose entitlement swap
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — States would get total control of welfare programs and the federal government would pay a greater share of Medicaid costs under an entitlement swap proposed yesterday by a group of Republican senators.
welfare at the state level, with no federal strings attached."
The lead sponsor, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, said the proposal would unshackle states from federal restrictions, giving them the freedom to design welfare programs that work for them.
"This approach would for the first time draw a clear line between the states and Washington," Kassebaum said. "It would fix responsibility for
Under the proposed swap, the states within five years would assume full responsibility for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps and Nutritional Assistance for Women, Infants and Children programs.
During the phase-in, state and federal governments would be required to maintain current levels of funding for welfare programs, as new state-run programs are developed.
Meantime, the federal government would pick up more state costs of Medicaid, the health program for poor people now shared by Washington and the states. The states would
continue to get federal dollars for Medicaid in the same amount now spent for AFDC, WIC and food stamps.
In Kansas, that means the federal government would pay for $267 million of the state's $390 million Medicaid share, a savings of $123 million.
Nationally, Kassebaum said the federal government would pay $41 billion in state shares of Medicaid costs, while the states would pick up another $41 billion in welfare costs.
States wishing to design their own welfare programs now must seek waivers from the federal government — sometimes dozens of them — and wait for months before a decision is made.
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