NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 16, 1993
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Seattle meeting set for Clinton, Chinese leader
The Associated Press
BEJING — When Chinese President Jiang Zenlin meets U.S. President Clinton on Friday, it will be the first meeting after nearly five years marred by emotional debate over human rights, arms sales and political systems.
Much is riding on the one-hour meeting in Seattle, where the leaders of 14 nations will gather for the largest ever Asian-Pacific summit under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group.
The last time the presidents of China and the United States met formally was in early 1989, before the start of student pro-democracy demonstrations that China violently repressed, pushing U.S.-Chinese relations into a decline.
Mutual trust reached another low in August when the United States, rejecting private Chinese assurances, tailed a Chinese freighter it suspected of carrying banned chemicals and forced a search that proved the ship clean.
Now, both sides are hoping for a breakthrough in attitudes and a commitment to frequent, high-level contacts.
"Their coming meeting will not be a negotiating session," Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen told a news conference last week. He instead emphasized intangible achievements, such as better understanding and trust.
Under an agreement signed last year, China is supposed to dismantle a set of import barriers by Dec. 31. A textile agreement also expires then, and the United States is threatening to impose quotas on Chinese textiles if a new agreement isn't reached.
Clinton is under pressure from U.S. companies to ease sanctions imposed in September that restrict high-technology exports to China, including satellites. He imposed the sanctions because intelligence indicated China exported missile technology to Pakistan in violation of an agreement. Washington wants China to either prove that the findings are wrong or promise that the sales won't be repeated.
China, meanwhile, wants an end to the new sanctions and some left over from 1989, such as restrictions on sales to its military and police. It also wants its low-tariff trade status assured, rather than subject to wrenching annual debate.
Clinton and Jiang are unlikely to get into detailed discussions on these issues. That will be left to Cabinet-level officials who also will be meeting in Seattle tomorrow through Saturday.
China, not wanting to be seen as making concessions during the summit, has already offered a goodwill gift by opening the door to prison visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross. This is something that the United States long sought but China rejected as a violation of its sovereignty.
Arafat aide assassinated
Unclear whether killing is linked to peace accord
The Associated Press
SIDON, Lebanon — Assassins firing submachine guns killed a senior aide of Yasser Arafat yesterday, the fifth PLO official slain since the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord was signed.
It was unclear, however, whether the shooting was linked to the accord or to infighting between Palestinian factions.
Police said Lt. Col. Moeen Shabalaita, a Fatah militia commander and outspoken advocate of the Sept. 13 accord, died about two hours after the attack in Sidon.
Fatah is the core organization in Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization.
Two assailants in a car, firing submachine guns equipped with silencers, first shot out the fires on Shabata's Volkswagen as he was being driven from his office in the city's Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilwah to the southern suburb of Ghazieh, police said.
One gunman climbed out and fired at Shabata through the front seat window, hitting him six times. Shabata's driver and bodyguard escaped harm, police said.
Sabahata, 50, was second-in-command of Fatah's 3,000 strong militia in Ein el-Hilweh. He
No group claimed responsibility for Shabalta's assassination. But Fatath's chief of security at the refugee camp, Aby Hussein Farhoud, blamed Abu Nidal's breakaway Fatath-Revolutionary Council, which has long been engaged in a war with Arafat loyalists.
is survived by his wife and six children, aged 11 to 25.
A late-night Fatah statement in Sidon accused "agents of Israel's Mossad" secret service of killing Shabatta. Fatah has long labeled Abu Nidal's people Mossad operatives.
Abu Nidal — whose real name is Sabri al-Banna — broke with Fatah in 1973. Since then, his group has been blamed for scores of assassinations and other terrorist acts around the world.
At least 26 activists from Arafat's and Abu Nidal's factions have been killed since their latest confrontation erupted in June 1992.
At the PLO's headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia, Fatah accord on Palestinian foes of the peace accord yesterday to open a national dialogue on implementing the deal it called the nucleus for a Palestinian state.
In a political communique issued by the movement's powerful, 105-member Revolutionary Council, Fatah said the dialogue should be in line with its efforts to set up a Palestinian autonomous authority in the occupied lands.
Christopher to aid Middle East peace
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Warren Christopher will travel to the Middle East next month to mediate a fragile agreement to launch Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.
The celebrated accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization is in peril of unraveling because of recent Palestinian attacks on Jewish residents of the West Bank.
Christopher also will try to finalize a separate accord between Israel and Jordan and break an impasse between Israel and Syria over the Golan Heights.
The Associated Press
The complex mission could determine the course of Middle East peacemaking and test the Clinton administration's skill with foreign policy.
Officials said the trip probably would be scheduled for early December, just before the Dec. 13 deadline for Israel and the PLO to complete arrangements for Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.
The Israel-PLO agreement was designed to turn over administrative control of Gaza and the West
Bank town of Jericho to Palestinians as an experiment in coexistence with the Jewish state.
It was worked out in secret, with the assistance of Norway, and then seized on by Clinton and Christopher as an accomplishment that could be extended to other fronts in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
However, peace talks have not resumed in Washington, and Israeli and PLO negotiators are squabbling over the boundaries of Jericho.
Polls show that for the first time, a majority of Israelis oppose the deal with the PLO, which included Israeli recognition of Arafat's organization and support for worldwide assistance that has mounted to pledges of nearly $2 billion.
Christopher may stop in Tunis, Tunisia, to meet with Arafat. Meanwhile, Palestinian officials said in Cairo that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin would meet with Arafat in December.
Israel's negotiations with Jordan remain on a positive level. The two countries already have concluded a framework for a peace treaty, and recent setbacks to Muslim fundamentalists in elections to Jordan's parliament could improve chances for a final accord.
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