NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 11, 1994
5B
Israel and Syria search for peace
U.S. helps negotiate a fair compromise
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised security and dignity to Syria and its people yesterday as a terrorist attack and Iraqi troop movements shadowed the start of a new round of diplomacy by Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Christopher pledged that the United States would stand firmly with Israel against terrorists, who he said wanted to kill the peace process as well as innocent civilians. He said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "would not be permitted to intimidate the people of Kuwait or the people of this region."
The terrorist attack here that left two dead and 13 injured, including an American diplomat, underscored Israel's obsession with security, and Rabin, in a gesture to Syria, recognized its importance to the Arab country as well.
He said the peace Israel sought was one that "brings about normalization and security to both our countries, and it has to be done maintaining the
digity of our peoples and our countries together."
Rabin's statement at a news conference was a gesture to Dammascus in the sphere of "public diplomacy," which has shown more progress recently than the negotiations over the future of the Golan Heights.
Christopher is hoping public gestures will inspire confidence on both sides and produce the compromises needed for an accord.
He declined to say whether Rabin or Foreign Minister Shimon Peres made any new proposals for him to take to Damascus today.
Last week on a visit to Washington, the Syrian foreign minister, Farouk Sharaa, took questions from Israeli reporters at a news conference, gave an interview to Israel television and met with leaders of the American Jewish community.
Christopher praised Sharara's moves as an important first step, but steered clear of the foreign minister's assertions that Syria had never attacked Israel and that it did not give refuge to terrorist groups.
At the same time, Christopher called on Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to respond to the terrorist attack Sunday night near Zion Square with "a strong condemnation."
The loosening of the Arab economic boycott of Israel is another step in the process that Christopher and other State Department officials hope eventually will produce a peace treaty, though they now are saying the negotiations could drag on into 1995.
Christopher's six-day trip has been distracted by the movement of Iraqi troops toward the Kuwaiti border. He will go to Kuwait tomorrow to talk to leaders of the oil-rich emirate and to underscore U.S. support for the country that a U.S.-led military force liberated from Iraq annexation in 1991.
Within hours after U.S. troops began landing in Kuwait, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations announced that Iraqi forces were being pulled back from the border.
In Israel, the Iraqi advance stirs memories of the 1991 gulf war and Iraq's missile attack on Israel.
Christopher on Sunday pledged the United States stood ready to assist Israel, but Rabin said yesterday that "we don't see at this stage any problem for Israel."
The Bush administration persuaded Israel not to retaliate in 1991, but Rabin indicated Israel this time would defend itself. He said Israel was strong militarily "and can cope with any eventuality."
Islamic militants kill two in Gaza
The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza — In a vivid sign of the anger that still grips the Gaza Strip, mourners yesterday hailed an Islamic militant who sprayed gunfire on a crowded street of cafes and restaurants, killing two people, as a martyr.
Friends described Hassan Abbas as an embittered 19-year-old who spent time in jail and was wounded in a clash with Israeli soldiers. Relatives said Abbas' brother was forced to flee to Sudan because he was wanted by Israelis.
The attack Sunday night was one of Jerusalem's worst in recent years. Abbas and the other assailant, Issam Jawhari, who was reportedly a Muslim extremist from Egypt, were armed with rifles and hand grenades and shot people at random.
An Israeli woman and a Palestinian were killed. Thirteen others, including a U.S. diplomat, were wounded. The two attackers were killed by Israeli police.
Remains of cult co-leader found in Switzerland chalet
The Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The financial mastermind of the doomsday cult at the center of 53 deaths in Switzerland and Canada perished in the carrage, police said Monday, deepening the mystery surrounding the fate of the cult's other leader.
Pathologists using dental records identified Joseph d Mambro among the burned bodies found in three charred chalets in the southwestern Swiss village of Granges-sur-Salvan, Valais state police said.
Di Mambro, a 70-year-old French-Canadian, was widely described as the grand master and financial power of the cult, called the Order of the Solar Tradition in Switzerland, with links in France, Canada and Australia.
The whereabouts of Luc Jouret, a Belgian believed to be the charismatic force behind the cult, remained unknown.
Police have said they don't know whether Jouret, 46, is alive or dead, but they have issued an international warrant for his arrest on suspicion of arson and murder, the same charges that had been pending against di Mambro.
Swiss police also announced they had made a key discovery: a .22-caliber pistol with a silencer at one of the chalets. Experts are checking to see if it was the one used to pump 52 bullets into the bodies of victims at a farm in another village.
Some 23 people died at the farm, which is about a 90-minute drive from the chalets. Elaborate incendiary devices set off fires at the farm about four hours before the same type of device set fire to the chalets.
Police have been investigating whether one or more people took part in the slayings at the farm and then drove to chalets.
None of the 25 victims in the chalets have been reported shot.
Some 21 bodies remain to be identified among the victims at the chalets. About half were burned beyond recognition.
Five bodies were found in a house north of Montreal that burned last Tuesday. Three were stabbed to death several days before the fire, which was set using the same device as in Switzerland. Autopsy results are pending on the remaining two, who were burned.
The house was owned by Jouret and di Mambro, according to Canadian police.
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