UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 4, 1996
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Bomb blasts Israel's hope for peace
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel declared all-out war yesterday on the militant Islamic group Hamas after a suicide bomber blew apart a second bus in Jerusalem in just one week.
The blast, which scattered body parts and pieces of twisted metal yards from the explosion site, killed 19 people, including the bomber, and threw the future of Mideast peacemaking in question.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres demanded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat do more to combat terrorism.
He said if Arafat did not comply, negotiations with the Palestinians on a final peace agreement would not start in May as scheduled.
"There are no negotiations with the Palestinians," a grim Peres told a news conference. "There are only our demands to the Palestinians."
Peres, a dove who will be hard-pressed to prevail over a right-wing rival in May 29 elections, said that Israel was engaged in total war against Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
Arafat condemned the bombing as a serious and dangerous terrorist act and outlawed all armed Palestinian groups.
The Hamas offshoot that claimed responsibility announced a three-month moratorium on attacks so long as Israel does not crack down on Hamas.
The blast tore through a No.18 city bus as it drove through Jerusalem's shopping district at 6:25 a.m., almost exactly a week after another No.18 bus exploded in the city, killing the bomber and 26 others.
Hamas claimed that attack and a bombing in Ashkelon the same day, which killed two people, including the bomber.
The force of yesterday's explosion hurled bodies onto the street and left the bus a blackened skeleton. Ariel Schussheim, a paramedic who was one of the first at the scene, said the bus driver was trapped in his seat and screaming for help.
"Bodies were strewn all over the place," he told the Yediot Ahronet newspaper. "We had to push through the corpses to treat the wounded."
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Ten people were wounded.
The dead included five migrant workers from Romania, a Romanian tourist, an Ethiopian tourist and two Palestinians, as well as the bomber.
Hundreds of angry Israelis gathered at the scene. Some lit memorial candles and recited prayers. Others sobbed and shouted in fury.
And last night, Israelis hurled stones at shop windows and Arab-owned cars near Jerusalem's Old City.
Two Palestinian motorists were hurt by stones, and police arrested 22 demonstrators.
In an attempt to prevent retaliation, the army barred Israelis from entering Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
Peres warned Arafat that Israel would honor its agreements with the Palestine Liberation Organ-ization only if the Palestinians did the same.
"We are not asking for favors," he said. "According to the agreement they must disarm terrorist organi-
Hamas sources said yesterday that 300 Islamic activists had been arrested by Arafat's forces in the weeks since the previous bombings.
President Clinton said the United States would stand behind Peres and Arafat and all Israelis and Palestinians who support peace.
The leaflet claiming responsibility for the bombing said it was carried out in revenge for the Jan. 5 assassination of chief Hamas bomb maker Yehiya Ayyash, widely attributed to Israel.
The leaflet said yesterday's bombing would be the last act of revenge and that the group would suspend violence for three months to allow Israel and the Palestinians to reach a political settlement.
But the truce will be called off if Israeli security forces crack down on Hamas, the leaflet said.
Peres, hoping to hold on to his job in May 29 elections, was under extreme pressure to take dramatic steps to retaliate and restore a sense of security to Israelis.
Peres said security forces would seal and demolish the homes of suicide bombers and pursue those who helped them.
He also said more troops would be brought to Jerusalem and that Israel would increase the barriers with the West Bank and Gaza Strip to separate the two peoples.
Some 1,000 soldiers and police officers were to be stationed at bus stops and on buses in Jerusalem starting Monday to check identity cards of every passenger before boarding.
The bombers in all three recent attacks are believed to have come from the area of Hebron, the only Palestinian city in the West Bank still under Israeli control.
Yesterday's bomber tentatively was identified as Islam Mohammed, a Hebron resident who studied engineering at Bir Zeit University, Ayyash's alma mater.
After the Feb. 25 bombings, Peres sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, barring 2 million Palestinians from Israel.
In Gaza, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar warned yesterday that there would be more bloodshed if Israel made good on its pledge to wage all-out war against his group.
"It they force us to drink from this cup, they'll drink from it, too," Zahhar said.
Waning candidate arrested in Atlanta
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Presidential candidate Alan Keyes was taken into custody by police yesterday when he attempted to enter a television studio where other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination were
preparing to debate.
Alan Keyes
It was not
clear whether Keyes was formally arrested, but he was taken into custody as he attempted to go in the main entrance of the WSB-TV studios about 30 minutes before the debate began.
Police said he was not being taken to jail, but Lt. William Charles of the Atlanta police said he did not know where Keyes was or whether he had been
"I have a right to speak," Keyes shouted as police hustled him away in handcuffs.
It was not clear where he was being taken or how long he would be detained.
released. Charles was awaiting a written report from the motorcycle squad, which took the candidate into custody.
Keyes also was denied participation in a South Carolina debate last week, which was limited to the top four finishers in the New Hampshire primary.
He told reporters outside the building yesterday that he was denied entry by WSB-TV officials.
"I was invited to participate in this debate, and the owners of the TV station denied me," Keyes said. "I am qualified as a candidate in the state of Georgia. This is a travesty, a violation of the Constitution."
"As Martin Luther King went to jail in order to secure my right to participate, I go to jail in order to exercise that right."
Keyes and his supporters pitched camp on the station lawn Saturday night.
His supporters remained there yesterday, even though Keyes left for a while to attend two church services.
The debate among Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes and Lamar Alexander started as scheduled shortly after the Keves incident.
Bill Nigut, WSB-TV political reporter and a debate panelist, said that the station had never had any intention of reconsidering its decision not to invite Keyes.
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