European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday december 13, 1993 Arafat Rabin fail to agree on pullout Cairo Egypt apr Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement late sunday on a plan to Start withdrawing israelis troops from the Gaza strip and Jericho before today a deadline. The israeli prime minister said after the nearly two hour meeting that he and Arafat agreed to meet again in about 10 Days and that negotiators from both sides would continue meetings during that period. Rabin told reporters the main discussion was on How much territory Israel will vacate around the West Bank town of Jericho and who will control Border Crossings from the area to come under palestinian control a these were the main things about which we have yet to reach agreement a Rabin said. Rabin said both sides remained committed to an Accord signed by Israel and the Plo in Washington last sept. 13, and Arafat also expressed determination to go ahead with the Accord. Asked if sundays meeting produced Concrete re suits Arafat the Palestine liberation organization chief replied a the most important is that both of us Are committed to the a a reference to the declaration of principles signed in Washington. The Accord called on Israel to Start withdrawing by today and Complete the withdrawal by april 13, turning Over Security and Day to Day affairs in. Gaza and Jericho to the palestinians. Rabin also said he thought the Accord could still be implemented without any harm from the delay. A i done to believe 10 Days will make any difference a he said. He said that the delay would allow negotiators a to define much More clearly the vital interests to israeli the stars and stripes Page s wearing a pistol at his hip Plo chief Yasser Arafat is shown to his car by egyptian prime minister Atco a Dkl in Cairo on sunday before a meeting with israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Security and vital interest to the Rabin added that he expected the withdrawal still could be completed by the target Date of april 13. Israel has been warning it was unlikely today a deadline would be met. But the Plo had insisted on starting the israeli withdrawal on schedule As a signal to people in the occupied lands that the peace process would bring Concrete results. As negotiators have remained deadlocked opponents of the talks a dissident palestinians and jewish settlers a have stepped up violence. Forty one palestinians and 14 israelis have been kilted since the signing of the peace Accord. Fri at More Palermo Sicily a the top . Law officer toured the mafias heartland and the scenes of some of its most Brazen attacks sunday. He warned the mob that America a will Hunt you Fri director Louis j. Freeh pledged the full support of . Judges and investigators in attempts to dismantle the italian mafia. Its Empire has come under increasing assault after the slayings last year of two famous prosecutors. American officials have cooperated for decades with italian anti mafia investigators. But Freehe a strongly worded message to a Church congregation suggested even greater . Aid As the mob reels under Waves of arrests and of growing ranks of turncoat breaking the code of silence. A the full Power and resources of the United states Law enforcement Are at your Side now and tomorrow a Freeh said. He specifically mentioned the advanced crime scene analysis and genetic tests that helped bring arrests for the May 1992 Highway bombing that killed Freehe a close Friend anti mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. Freeh repeatedly promised to finish the Job started by Falcone and fellow prosecutor Paolo Borsellino who was killed in a bombing in Palermo two months after Falcone s assassination. A we will Root you out from under every Rock from the dark places where you hide Quot Freeh warned the mafia in a speech from the altar of a 750-Ycar-old Church filled with More than 1,000 people. Quot your old order is Freeh under heavy guard during his two Day visit to Italy read off a list of mafia victims that included magistrates and priests. But some people outside the Church described the mob As More resilient than officials claim. Hungary s prime minister Dies Budapest Hungary a prime minister Jozsef Antall who led Eastern Europe a most enduring and stable pos communist government died sunday after a Long struggle with cancer. He was 61. The state news Agency Mai said Antall died at a Budapest Hospital where he had been treated since nov. 23. Interior minister Peter Boross it who ran the government during Antall a absences for chemotherapy and radiology treatments immediately assumed the prime ministers duties. An a charismatic but forthright politician Antall kept Hungary on a centrist course As Eastern Europe a new democracies struggled sometimes violently to emerge from decades of communist repression. In a letter to the National leadership of his hungarian democratic forum just a Day before he died Antall said Hungary was on the mend after a Century dominated by wars and dictatorship. A looking Back to Antall the years behind we see a rising nation and a country renewing itself a he said. In what was effectively his political testament he told followers that Affer dec Ades of communism the private Economy was now responsible for More than half the National income. Inflation was in Check and unemployment was beginning to fall. A we have fulfilled our political tasks and carried out economic restructuring a he said. In a bedside ceremony saturday at the Hospital where he Lay dying Antall was awarded the grand Cross of the order of the Republic of Hungary. Antall had suffered from non Hodgkin a Lymphoma a form of cancer of the Lymph glands. He received treatment in Germany in october but was hospitalized in late november shortly after he returned to Hungary sixth victim Dies in commuter train shooting Mineola . A a sixth looting victim from the Long Island ail Road train killings died sunday. Amy Federicci 27, who was shot in the Eck and had been on life support since be tuesday rampage died at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola said Phyllis Abrams a Hospital spokeswoman. Federicci who lived in Mineola was one of 23 people shot by a Man who opened fire on the Rush hour commuter train said Abrams five others also died. Police charged Colin Ferguson with walking up and Down the aisles of the train firing his semiautomatic 9 my gun As the train pulled into a station in Garden halts traffic As air pollution hospitalized dozens Naples Italy a officials closed the City to most traffic sunday after air pollution sent dozens of people to the Hospital with coughs irritated eyes and shortness of breath. Authorities said they weren t sure what fouled the air. There was speculation it was due to Industrial Fiol Lution coupled with exhaust rom heavy traffic. People in various areas of the City were affected. The air began getting bad Friday and by saturday night it had sent at least 44 people to the Hospital with skin irritation and asthma like symptoms. Pollution is the latest problem to plague Naples a Southern port with Many factories and Oil refineries the City s 1.2 million residents have dealt for several months with spells of undrinkable water uncollected garbage and broken traffic lights
