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Rabin urged to dismantle settlements
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to uproot radical Jewish settlers from the occupied territories to salvage Middle East peace talks.
Rabin said he wanted to get the talks going again. But he refuses to dismantle any of the 144 Jewish settlements that have become a crucial factor in the peace equation since the Feb. 25 massacre of Muslim worshippers in a Hebron mosque. Nor will he agree to disarm the settlers, who are allowed to carry weapons for protection.
Rabin's coalition government has only a one-vote majority in the 120-member parliament, and he is leery of making concessions that could trigger a backlash.
PLO militants are urging renewed attacks to force Israel to meet their demands for removing at least some settlements.
Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday, demanding that the government dismantle the settlements, especially those in heavily populated Arab areas like Hebron. There, 400 Israelis live among 80,000 Palestinians.
Baruch Goldstein, the settler
who opened fire on rows of kneeling Muslim worshippers, lived in the radical Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron. Thirty Palestinians died in the massacre, and 27 people — all but two of them Palestinian们 — have been killed in its violent aftermath.
"The Israelis are sick of the settlers and their extremism," said Tzali Reshef, a leader of the Peace Now group that organized the rally.
Some demonstrators in Tel Aviv's Kings Square waved Palestinian flags. Others held banners reading "Dismantle all the settlements" and "War against the extreme right."
Rabin refuses to even discuss the settlements, saying the issue cannot be negotiated until 1996 under the terms of Israel's Sept. 13 peace accord with the PLO.
The PLO says it will not return to the negotiating table until radical settlements in Arab centers like Hebron are removed and an international force deployed to protect Palestinians.
Some Cabinet ministers appear to be leaning toward closing down at least the Hebron settlements, but Israel Radio said yesterday that Rabin had refused to put the issue to a vote.
Ukraine begins nuclear disarmament
MOSCOW — The first trainload of Ukrainian nuclear warheads to be dismantled by Russia under a disarmament agreement arrived in Russia yesterday, a Russian Defense Ministry representative said.
The train carried 60 warheads that will be disassembled under the pact in which Ukraine has agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for fuel for its nuclear power plants.
The agreement to eliminate 176 long-range missiles and more than 1,600 nuclear warheads was signed in January by Ukrainian President
Leonid Kravuch, Russian President Boris Veltins and President Clinton
Clinton, at the end of a state visit by Kravehuck, announced Friday he would double aid to the former Soviet republic as a reward for nuclear disarmament and economic reform.
The Associated Press
Ukraine has yet to ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and some Ukrainian lawmakers say giving up the arms would threaten the country's security and status.
But Clinton praised Kravchuk as the driving force behind Ukraine's agreement to eliminate the nuclear arsenal left behind after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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Mandela pledges democracy
Tensions still mounting as South Africa's first all-race election nears
PIETERSBURG, South Africa — No one should fear an African National Congress government — not the military, police, business leaders or dissident groups opposed to the nation's first all-race election, Nelson Mandela said yesterday.
The Associated Press
On a campaign visit to this northern city, considered a stronghold of pro-apartheid whites, Mandela pledged to do whatever he could to get all South African parties to run in the April 26-28 election that will end white minority rule.
Also yesterday, 11 people were killed in a shantytown near Durban in what appeared to be another flare-up in the fight between the ANC and its main black rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party.
the April election, even though one of their leaders registered for the vote. The Zulu nationalist Inkatha, a vocal opponent of the election, also registered but said its demand for an autonomous Zulu state must be met before it will actually run.
Pro-apartheid whites have rejected taking part in
Mandela said groups that refused to register by the deadline Friday still should be able to change their minds and join in, and he indicated the ANC might make further concessions to demands for strong regional powers in post-apartheid South Africa.
But Mandela reiterated the April election date must stand.
It was the first Black political event in Pietersburg's sports stadium, and Mandela's speech stressed the theme of change for South Africa. His ANC is favored to win the April vote, which would make him the nation's first Black president.
Pro-apartheid whites, Zulu supporters of Inkatha and others fear the ANC would impose strong central powers to trample minority rights.
Mandela said the defense forces, police, white-dominated civil service and business community should welcome an ANC government.
"They have no reason to fear democracy," he said. He praised retired army Gen. Constand Viljoen, who registered for the election just before the Friday night deadline to give his pro-apartheid white supporters the option of participating in the vote.
The Afrikaner Volkfront, which claims to represent the nation's 3 million Dutch-descended white settlers of South Africa, has threatened to disrupt voting and take up arms against Black rule.
Six masked men roamed the streets of Bhambayi early yesterday, shooting residents and burning shacks in an area considered an ANC stronghold.
Oner white leaders vilified Viljoen on Saturday and refused to have the right-wing Afrikaner Volksfront, an umbrella organization of pro-apartheid groups, take part in the election. Viljoen said he accepted the decision by his colleagues.
Meanwhile, the deaths yesterday in Bhambayi, near the northeastern port city of Durban, showed that the feud between Inkatha and the ANC will be difficult to contain.
More than 200 people have been killed in Bhama bayi in the ANC-Inkatha feud over the past two years.
Whitewater sparks party bickering
Officials defend Clinton after chief counsel
announces resignation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration blamed Republican sniping yesterday for much of the furor over Whitewater and stressed there was no evidence of any wrongdoing. But GOP Sen. Phil Gramm countered that President Clinton is "getting deeper in a hole" that threatens his presidency.
Two top administration officials, Vice President Gore and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on news programs yesterday to state their case that while mistakes had been made, the White House was cooperating fully in the Whitewater investigation.
They said Republicans were trying to exploit the issue because of the successes of Clinton's programs and his rising popularity.
There's "an enormous amount of partisanship," Gore said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Stephanopoulos, speaking on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley," said, "The Republicans can't run on the economy, they can't run on health care, they can't run on welfare, they can't run on crime, so they are going to try to exploit this issue.
would try to exploit it."
"What would you do if you were in the opposition, and you saw an opportunity to make a dent in this growing popularity?" he asked. "Of course you
"We should't help them by making mistakes. That's our fault."
Stephanopoulos was referring to the White House's admission that senior staffers received three private briefings from Treasury Department officials on the status of an investigation into a failed Arkansas savings and loan tied to the Clintons and their Whitewater land venture.
Special prosecutor Robert Fiske issued subpoenas Friday to senior White House officials to obtain information on the meetings. On Saturday, White House chief counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who was involved in the briefings, announced his resignation.
Clinton, sensitive to criticism that the White House was middling in an independent investigation, has said the meeting should not have occurred and made it clear he was unhappy with Nussbaum's handling of the affair. However, he said there had been no outright wrongdoing in the conduct of the meetings.
administration was involved in a cover-up with Watergate overtones.
"Richard Nixon turned a third-rate burglary into a constitutional crisis by not leveling, by interfering with the investigation," Gramm, R-Texas, said on ABC. The president, Gramm said, "is getting deeper in a hole."
Alonze D'Amato, R-N.Y., also said that as a result of the administration's attempt to stonewall the investigation, the issue has "the potential of being as great if not greater than Watergate."
But Republicans charged the
Gore insisted that whatever mistakes were made in permitting the briefings to take place, "there is now an aggressive determination to make absolutely certain that there is no interference of any kind."
He said that within an hour of the White House's being informed of the subpoenas, "the word went out clearly and firmly. You save everything, whether it's on your computer, whether it's in the wastebasket."
Nussbaum had been criticized for removing documents related to Whitewater from the office of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster after the attorney apparently committed suicide last summer. Those documents subsequently were turned over to the Justice Department.
12-year-old finds lead in water The Associated Press
STATESVILLE, N.C. — Nichole Connolly didn't have much of a reputation as a scientist. Still, authorities thought it wise to double check the disturbing discovery of her science project.
Last week, the 12-year-old's finding that water from a faucet at an elementary school had dangerously high levels of lead was verified by a state-certified lab.
"If she hadn't done this, we still wouldn't know about it," said Iredell-Statesville schools representative Catharine Davidson.
Connolly took water samples from faucets and fountains at seven schools in the area and sent them to a private laboratory recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Six of the samples came back well below the EPA's acceptable limit of 15 parts per billion of lead in drinking water.
The seventh — from a music room faucet at Pressley Elementary school — tested at 17.7 ppb. On Wednesday, results from the state-certified lab showed the water had 16.6 ppb.
The faucet wasn't used for drinking water.
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