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Albright's Mideast peace plan creates Palestinian skepticism
The Associated Press
RAM ALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian protesters burned a U.S. flag yesterday and officials said they were skeptical about efforts by U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to rescue the collapsing Mideast peace.
Her empathy with Israel's security concerns signaled a "wholly one-sided mission," Palestinian cabinet minister Hanan Ashawi said after Albright began her trip by backing Israel's demands that Yasser Arafat crack down on Islamic militants.
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"At some point the United States has to decide whether it wants to serve only Israeli interests or whether it wants to serve the interests of peace in the region," Ashrawisaid.
Palestinians say that the persecutors of two recent suicide bombings in Jerusalem, which killed 20 Israelis and the five assailants, came from abroad and not from
Palestinian territory. They charged yesterday that Israel is hiding evidence to this effect.
Since last week's bombing, some 200 suspected militants were questioned in the West Bank and Gaza, a Palestinian security official said. Of those, 110 were detained, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Palestinian security forces also closed an office used by alumni of Gaza City's Islamic University, a
stronghold of Hamas, the militant Islamic group blamed for the two Jerusalem attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed these efforts as symbolic and aimed at appeasing Albright, while she in turn assured Israel that the United States supported Israel's security demands.
"We are with you in the battle against terror," she said. "We are with you in your insistence that the Palestinian Authority fulfill the responsibilities and obligations that it has undertaken."
Her comments angered Palestinian. In the West Bank city of Nablus, 50 Palestinian protesters, most members of Hamas, burned an American flag and displayed drawings depicting Albright stabbing the Palestinian people while wearing a Star of David.
Hamas condemned Albright's visit, saying it was aimed at bringing "the Palestinian Authority to its knees," in a statement carried by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency.
China's leaders could approve reforms to break state's control of industries
The Associated Press
Among the decisions to be made by a major party congress that meets tomorrow — from anointing new leaders to approving a new platform — none is likely to be as far-reaching as endorsing Jiang's reforms for state-run industries.
BEIJING — China's communist ideology, made marginal by nearly two decades of market-oriented reforms, seems destined for another blow.
"Socialism is supposed to have central planning, distribution according to work and state ownership." said an anonymous former editor at a state-run newspaper. "They've already gotten rid of central planning and distribution according to work, now they're going after state ownership."
tees of shared wealth and lifetime jobs, state-run industries have remained untouchable.
Monopolistic control of industries by the state has been a cherished tenet for 48 years. Although the reforms have broken guaran-
Jiang, a party member for 51 years and no closet capitalist, has adopted the reforms out of necessity. State banks, otherwise, could be swamped with more bad debts, undermining economic growth.
But the state-run industries have not stayed dominant. Nearly half are unprofitable and more than half of industrial output is in private hands.
Jiang and his allies are prepared to apply medicine unorthodox by Marxist standards; mergers, bankruptcy and, most controversially, issuing stock.
new slogan: state ownership has become "multiple forms of public ownership."
State-run media estimate the congress will permit as many as 10,000 enterprises to experiment with shareholding.
In his keynote speech to the congress tomorrow, Jiang is expected to issue the new motto as a defense that the new policies are socialist. Since shareholding spreads ownership among the public, the theory goes, the party is ensuring the people remain the masters of the country.
But because China is run by the Communist Party, leaders still must rationalize policy in terms of Marxist rhetoric. For Jiang and his supporters, a new policy needs a
Party conservatives and die-hard Maoists are not buying. Shortly after Jiang floated his proposals in May, the anti-reformists circulated a tract attacking shareholding.
Ultimately, the appeals to ideology may have more to do with keeping the Communist Party in power than policy differences.
"Our country is already a socialist society and therefore must uphold socialism's direction and path," the party's premier theoretical journal "Seeking Truth" said this month. "There can be no going back."
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