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MONDAY, AUG. 20, 2001
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Two dead in Mideast attack
JERUSALEM — In a day marked by gunbattles, helicopter raids and grenade attacks, Israeli troops yesterday shot dead two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, while Jewish settlements came under mortar fire.
The Associated Press
The Israeli military said it regretted that the Palestinians send youths "to throw grenades and fire at (Israeli) forces from populated civilian areas."
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he was in contact with Palestinian officials in a bid to arrange a cease-fire, but Palestinian leaders dismissed it as a public relations effort designed to draw attention away from the military actions.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian militants threw grenades and fired rifles at Israeli soldiers patrolling the Israel-Egypt border, prompting the soldiers to fire back, the military said.
"What Mr. Peres is saying is just a trick, another game to cover the policy of assassinations and attacks against the Palestinian people," said Yasser Abed Rabbo,
the Palestinian information minister.
Also in southern Gaza, Palestinian militants fired six mortars at the Jewish settlements of Gush Katif, slightly injuring one settler, the Israeli military reported.
The army responded with Apache helicopters that fired missiles, flattening the Force 17 security offices, while tanks shelled another Palestinian security base.
In the West Bank, Israeli troops blocking a road near the city of Nablus forced on Palestinians trying to skirt the checkpoint on foot, killing one and wounding three, Palestinians said.
Despite the daily violence, Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, said he hoped to meet in coming days with Arafat.
However, Ahmed Qureia, the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, said he and other senior Palestinian figures would not speak with Peres until Israeli security forces hand back Palestinian buildings and security offices in and around east Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insists there will be no formal peace negotiations until the violence ends. However, he has given Peres permission to hold talks with the Palestinians on a possible cease-fire.
A U.S.-brokered cease-fire, declared more than two months ago, has never taken hold. Since the Mideast fighting began nearly 11 months ago, 572 people have been killed on the Palestinian side, and 152 on the Israeli side.
Modern opera hits wrong note in Austria
The Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria — An attempt to introduce contemporary themes such as drug addiction and homosexuality to Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus drew a caustic response at the Salzburg Festival.
Tuxedoed gentlemen and gowned ladies, some paying as much as $120 to attend the 2001 premiere at the famed Felsenreitschule Hall late Friday, booled. Some swore. And reviewers store it to pieces.
Criticism focused mainly on German director Hans Neuenfels' efforts to break political and social taboos — introducing racy themes to the waltzy operetta that was a triumph for Strauss when it made its world premiere on April 5, 1874.
To do so, Neuenfels had to recast some of the main characters: Russian Prince Orlofsky was portrayed as a cocaine addict.
Most Austrian newspapers do not have a Sunday edition, but available reviews showed little support for his efforts. Karlheinz Roschitz of the mass-circulation Kronenzeitung titled his review: Gone down in wild coke orgies.
"Hans Neuenfels produced ... an orgy of destruction. The audience ran away in droves."
Similarly, the reviewer of the Austria Press
Agency criticized the fact that the Russian prince appears as "cocaine king" who only shows "what excessive consumption of drugs leads to."
But Gerard Mortier, the Belgian impresario who is leaving Salzburg as the festival's artistic manager, told the Vienna daily Der Standard, "I am personally very happy."
"That is theater how it should be: arousing, provocative and challenging," he said.
Another of those who disapproved of Neuenfel's rendition of Die Fledermaus — which means The Bat — was Helene Partik-Pable, a lawmaker and prominent political ally of populist Joerg Haider
Haider was formerly chairman of the far-right Freedom Party, which currently forms the government along with Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's Austrian People's Party.
"Once again the question arises as to what damage is done to the Salzburg Festival by such productions that completely antagonize and mislead the audience and how much (Salzburg's) reputation as a serious festival city is put at risk," she said.
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