NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 20, 1994
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Twenty killed in Israel bombing
Animosity toward Arabs is prevalent
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — The terror at the edges of the quest for Middle East peace exploded yesterday when a bomb on a crowded city bus killed 20 people and turned a bustling street into a scene from a slaughterhouse.
The attack, the worst in Israel in 16 years, wounded 48 people. Police blamed it on a suicide bomber.
Some Israelis cried for vengeance against the Islamic radicals who have claimed responsibility for three major attacks in 10 days.
Shouts of "Death to the Arabs!" were heard from bystanders on the seaside city's main thoroughfare as severed arms and legs, some
retrieved from the tops of four-story buildings, were gathered for burial.
"It will end. It has to end. We will tear them to bits," said President Ezer Weizman, who called for "extraordinary action" to root out Islamic extremists.
Police suspected a West Bank fugitive known as "The Engineer" of planning the attack, according to Israeli news reports.
The apparent suicide bombing reminded Israelis of their continued vulnerability to terrorism, even as the country prepared to peace a agreement with Jordan next week.
Israeli authorities said they believed a suicide bomber carrying up to 44 pounds of explosives boarded the red-and-white bus No. 5 as it headed up tree-lined Dizengoff Street, the city's main shopping drag.
At about 9 a.m., as the bus
approached the cafe-lined central stretch parallel to the beachfront, the explosion ripped it apart. Shattered glass and pieces of metal mixed with pieces of flesh scattered in the street.
Some in the crowd of thousands that formed shouted "Death to Arabs!" over the din of police helicopters, ambulance sirens and the shouts of rescue workers.
Members of Israel's official religious-run burial society labored for hours to remove dozens of bags of bodies and body parts from the scene.
Hospital sources said two of the 48 wounded were in critical condition. Police said the 20 dead included nearly all the people on the No.5 bus. The initial death toll of 22 was lowered after all the body parts were collected by pathologists, Israel radio said.
Islamic militants reign terror in Middle East
The Associated Press
The gunmen of Izzedine al-Qasam, the military wing of the Muslim militant Hamas movement, have tried to hold the Middle East hostage with a rash of bloody attacks in the heart of Israel.
JERUSALEM — They are armed, religious and dangerous.
In just 11 days, izzedine guerrilla shot dead two bystanders in a rampage in Jerusalem's restaurant row, kidnapped and murdered an Israeli soldier and blew a up a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv, killing 20 people.
Izzedine numbers a few hundred gunmen who operate in underground cells of two or three in the
PLO-rules Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
They are typically young men, hardened veterans of the stone-throwing battles against Israeli soldiers during the seven-year revolt against occupation.
A suspect in planning yesterday's bombing reportedly was Yehia Ayash, nicknamed "The Engineer," from the West Bank village of Rafat.
Ayash is a fugitive wanted for involvement in three earlier bombings, including suicide attacks this year in the northern Israeli towns of Hadera and Afula.
Gaza Strip, preaches that Israel must be destroyed and replaced with an Islamic state from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and beyond.
Hamas, which claims 30 percent support among Palestinians in the
Izedine said the bus bombing came in revenge for the killing of three squad members who died when Israeli troops stormed the hideout of the kidnappers of the Israeli soldier on Friday.
At Gaza City's Islamic University, a Hamas breeding ground, students crowded around handwritten wall posters detailing the Tel Aviv bombing.
"We all support it," said English literature student Abu Mizhav, 29. "This gives me pride."
John Paul: from papacy to paperback
The Associated Press
ful expression of the 'culture of death."
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II recalls his Jewish classmates in Poland before the Holocaust, including one who remains a close friend, in a book that goes on sale today — the first ever written by a pontiff.
Inside are the pope's personal reflections on the papacy, religion and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the world. And while it carries neither the weight nor the authority of papal documents, it contains a sharp attack on abortion as a 'power-
"Crossing the Threshold of Hope" contains no major pronouncements, but its writing and publication are highly unusual events.
John Paul uses some of his sharpest and most direct language to emphasize his rejection of abortion.
Besides religious reflections, the 220-page book contains the pope's views on the fall of communism in Europe, his concern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and a rare mention of his father, a non-commissioned Polish army officer.
"It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandant 'Do not kill'" he writes in the chapter, "The Defense of Every Life."
FCC's decency regulations challenged
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The government is being too protective trying to control children's exposure to indecent material on radio and TV, a federal appeals court judge said yesterday.
"You are not facilitating parents," Judge Patricia Wald said to the Federal Communications Commission's counsel. "You are saying, 'We are the people who decide.'"
Wald was one of 11 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reviewing the constitutionality of the regulations that forbid TV and radio stations from airing all indecent material except
during the hours of midnight to 6 a.m.
The regulations, he said, reasonably accommodate competing interests: limiting children's exposure to indecent material and protecting the rights of adults to watch or listen to legally protected speech.
FCC attorney Christopher Wright said that the government had an interest in protecting children, particularly children with "indifferent" parents who didn't supervise what their children listened to or watched.
FCC rule opponents argue that it is overly broad, unfairly deprives adults of certain programs and takes away parental choice.
Act does little to clean up air The Associated Press
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The air in 43 metropolitan regions, home to nearly 100 million Americans, is still failing health standards, but air quality in general is improving, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday.
The EPA, in its annual assessment of urban air pollution, said 11 cities or counties came into federal air quality compliance during the past year. But 43 others are still too dirty.
Twenty-two regions, including most of the nation's biggest cities, continue to have such severe smog pollution that there is little hope of meeting federal health standards until late in the next decade.
According to the agency's report, 48 of91 regional areas singled out in 1900 as having unacceptable air because of smog-causing ozone have since come into federal compliance.
EPA Administrator Carol Browner said the trend toward cleaner air was encouraging news that pollution control efforts, both tougher automobile emission controls and curbs on industrial pollution, are yielding real results.
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