European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world wednesday. December a. 1993west Bank unrest killings increase Kiryati Arba occupied West Bank apr islamic militants claimed responsibility tuesday for the slayings of two jewish settlers and threatened More attacks. Angry israelis burned tires and blocked roads in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A leaflet from the Radical group Hamas said the attack avenged the death of Imad anal the top Man in its armed brigades who was shot by israeli soldiers nov. 24. Hamas threatened the israeli chief of staff it. Gen. Ehud Barak with assassination and told the army Quot to prepare More body bags Quot palestinian and israeli extremists have waged an increasingly violent Campaign to try to undo the peace pact Between the Palestine liberation organization and Israel. A total of 37 palestinians and 14 israelis have been killed since the sept. 13 signing. The slayings of the two settlers monday night came As Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher returned to Israel from Amman Jordan on the fourth Stop of a Middle Eastern tour aimed at widening the peace process. Quot this killing absolutely must Stop a Christopher said. Quot we must grasp the Opportunity and not let the enemies of the peace process kill the Opportunity that we have.�?�. Jewish settlers who shouted Quot traitor traitor a at soldiers after the killings at a settlement outside the West Bank City of Hebron vowed a Campaign of protests to pressure prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to Roll Back the Accord. Four settlers were arrested after they set tires on fire on a main Jerusalem thoroughfare Jaffa Road outside a vegetable Market. The protests included a Cross country funeral procession from a Tel Aviv suburb to a jewish cemetery in Hebron. Hebron was under curfew tuesday with soldiers using loudspeakers to order the City a 90,000 palestinians to remain indoors. Troops were at almost every intersection. About 30 jewish mourners held a Pray l fete it it amp 8 1 Eva i israeli settlers holding signs stand by a tire they set ablaze on a Jerusalem Street during a protest against the Israel Plo Accord. Or Vigil in a tent outside the nearby Kiyat Arba settlement where Mordechai Lapid and his 19-year-old son the oldest of 15 children were shot to death by three men in a passing car. An Arab Vendor was fatally shot by settlers near the same intersection saturday. Quot they Are firing on settlers attack after attack. We did no to have this before this horrible agreement a rabbi Eliezer Waldman of Kiryati Arba said on army radio. A we will continue to defend ourselves and bring Down this  Rabin said that delaying the peace process would hand the terrorists a Victory. Already the violence could delay israelis withdrawal from the occupied Gaza strip and the West Bank Region of Jericho set to begin monday. Quot we Are fully aware of the difficulties that still tie ahead but i believe that together with those in the Arab Side who want peace it will be possible to overcome these difficulties a Rabin said. Faisal Husseini Plo chairman Yasser Arafat Stop lieutenant in the West Bank said the violence underscored the need to avoid delaying the autonomy Accord. Quot the Best Way to Stop this Cycle of violence and bloodshed is to end the Occue action and implement the agreement a e said. Palestinian negotiator Frieh Abu modern said the deaths in Hebron showed that jewish settlements in the occupied lands Are the rain threat to the peace agreement not clashes with the israeli army. The future of the settlements is supposed to be decided by 1996, when the final status of other Touchy issues such As Jerusalem Are to be negotiated. Israel has said it will not move any settlements until then but palestinians want those closest to their cities removed to avoid  return class ring of . Flier downed in 52 Moscow apr russian authorities tuesday returned the class ring of a . Air Force Pilot who was shot Down by the soviet Union on a reconnaissance flight near the Kuril islands in 1952, the Golden 1950 military class ring belonging to capt. John Robertson Dunham was turned Over to the american russian commission investigating the Fate of american service members shot Down or believed to have been brought to the soviet Union. The ring was retrieved from dunhams remains by a former soviet Sailor who was among the first to reach the crash site. He read a recent advertisement in a russian newspaper seeking information about flows and service members missing in action. Dunhams name was engraved inside the ring. Former . Ambassador Malcolm Toon thanked russian officials and the Sailor Vasily Syko 64, who found the pilots body in the wreckage of the reconnaissance plane. Toon said . Authorities notified Dunham s widow Mary Dunham Nichols who now lives in the Baltimore area. Toon quoted the widow As saying Quot this is a wonderful Christmas  the joint pow commission now Hopes to find Dunham s body with info nation provided by the former soviet Sailor. The plane was shot Down oct. 7, 1952, near Yuri Island in the soviet far East North of Japan s hokkaido Island. The remains of the other Crew members apparently were not recovered. South Africa s Black majority gets first taste of governing Cape town South Africa a South africans Black majority on tuesday got its first real say in managing the country with the seating of a powerful transitional Council that will Monitor the Cabinet until democratic elections in april. The inauguration of the transitional executive Council was marred by a Boycott by parties in the Freedom Alliance a potentially dangerous partnership of White right wingers and conservative Black leaders who have pledged to resist the new Constitution As drafted. In a Symbol of rejection self styled Quot Boer commandos occupied a fort outside Pretoria on tuesday. They Are part of a White right Wing movement that wants to create a separate White Homeland rather than compete in elections in a unified country. The Council known As the Tec is part of the settlement in which South africans minority Whites led by the governing National party Are to hand Over Power to the Black majority through the country s first fully democratic elections scheduled for april 27. The Council began its work tuesday morning with a moment of prayer. Quot this Day Marks the beginning of the end of minority Rule a african National Congress Secretary general Cyril ram Phosa said at the beginning of the meeting. A the Tec is the final step in the process to bring about True democracy in South Africa said minister Roe if Meyer representing the government at the Council. Meyer said the Council will assure that Quot there will be free and fair elections in which ail parties that want to can  the meeting was taking place next to parliament in the old presidents Council building. A right Wing politician said the proceedings were a travesty. Quot we do not regard the institution As Legal. We do not regard it As a Legal process. Therefore we wont obey any regulation or whatever they decide a said Willie Snyman Deputy parliamentary Leader of the conservatives one of the boycotting parties i0 a Frtsv-4-rt us me National Rany Ana me democratic party participants As Well As Indian parties aligned to the the african National Congress the country a largest Black led organization will play a major role on the Council which includes about 20 other parties that took part in two years of democracy talks with the government. Most Are Black led groups. But White led parties such As t he National party and the democratic party arc pm Anc the Council will Monitor the White led government to ensure that conditions Are fair for the elections. Among other things it Wilt oversee the Security forces state broadcasting economic decisions intelligence gathering and foreign policy. The government and the Anc had hoped for an Quot All inclusive settlement that would have seen Freedom Alliance parties joining the Tec and then taking part in elections. But a meeting with the Freedom Alliance failed to bring results monday night. The Alliance refused to make a Promise demanded by the government and the Anc to take part in the Tec and the election if changes were made m the draft Constitution to accommodate the alliances various demands for stronger Powers for regions