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5A FLORIDA TODAY Wednesday August 27 1997 fTear gas hits Palestinian I school Federal workers may lose computer games Senator: I'm after government waste Rf? sends dozen kiHc tn hnenital Associated Press BRTHI PHPM Wtd Hank CouKhlns and crvins Palestinian girls ran out of their classrooms Tuesday when Israeli tear-gas can-' isten aimed at stone-throwine rtot- ers landed In their Bethlehem 'schoolyard About a dozen thlrd-and fourth- graders were treated for tear-gas Inhalation Palestinian police car- ried away those girls overcome by the gas The school's 650 students dressed in gray-or green-striped uniforms were forced to evacuate Many covered their faces with handkerchiefs or pinched shut 1 Israeli troops fired rubber bul- trsmm en tare a wgvuumu mvucuu WW" ers Injuring five of them Bethlehem has been the scene of dally protests this week against Israel's closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip which ban Pales- tinlans from entering Israel The biblical town has been hardest hit: Its 60000 residents are prohibited from leaving the city and tourists 'cannot enter Israel imposed the closure July 30 in response to a suicide bombing Islamic militants that killed people at a Jerusalem market 'Israel reportedly suspects that two militant leaders possibly linked to the bombing are hiding in Bethle-hem The Palestinian Authority said the closure costs the Palestinian economy $8 million each day in- eluding million in lost wages of workers who cannot get to Jobs in Israel AP PALESTINIAN GIRLS overcome by tear gas leave a school building Tuesday They were caught in a fight between Palestinians and Israelis Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON When members of Congress left Washington hi droves earlier this month for their summer recess federal employees could breath a sigh of relief: Their computer games were safe for now But when the lawmakers return in September their agenda of weighty affairs of state will Include whether to push forward with a proposed ban on computer games in every nook and cranny of the federal bureaucracy The prohibition is part of the Senate version of a bin that passed in late July and finances the White House Post Office Treasury Department and assorted other gov-ernment agencies The amendment sponsored by Sen Lauch Faircloth R-NC would require the removal of existing games programmed on government computers and bar future purchases of computers with pre-instaued games Faircloth (whose first name is short for McLauchlin and pronounced hopes to find a sponsor for a similar amendment in the House version of the appropriation bill If that does not happen he says he will fight to Aisr DlJ CASE DUUa99 12-PK 55 llinf Israeli troops guarding Rachel's Tomb an Israeli enclave in the Palestinian-controlled city Soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to quell the riot Seven tear-gas canisters landed in the nearby courtyard of the elementary school witnesses said Classrooms had their windows open because of the warm weather Soldiers complied with Palestinian requests to stop firing tear gas so the students could evacuate the school Israeli Cabinet Secretary Danny Naveh accused Arafat of orchestrating the violence to pressure Israel to lift its restrictions There are clear instructions from the highest levels of the Palestinian Authority to engage in vio- USA-WORLD The 1997 Palestinian budget deficit initially expected to be around $518 million will grow to $400 million because of the closure said Khaled Salam an economic adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat The annual budget Is about $800 million The Palestinian economics minister Maker Masri said a partial boycott of Israeli goods called last week In retaliation for the closure was being observed by Palestinian consumers and shopkeepers Tuesday's violence in Bethlehem began when 35 Palestinians threw stones and empty bottles at MASKED PALESTINIAN youth throws a stone at Israeli soldiers Monday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem The town is under strict closure lence" Naveh told Israel army radio It is clear that in such a situation it is impossible to go back to business as usual in the diplomatic sphere" Israelis and Palestinians are locked in a standoff that the United States has been unable to break Netanyahu says Palestinians must go after Islamic militants before be will lift the closure Arafat says Israel must first lift the restrictions ABC 'PREFERRED CUSTOMERS LfiMtl "WE ADDITIONAL SSI 7 DAT SUE CHM6EIT If 1 1 II At a glance The prohibition could affect computers in the White House Post Office Treasury Department and several other government agencies It would remove existing games and bar purchases of computers with games preinstalled have the amendment retained as part of a conference version of the bill produced by House and Senate negotiators While some labor leaders have accused Faircloth of being techno-phobic the senator said it is government waste he fears not technological advances "The taxpayers dont need to be paying the salaries of people who are playing games while on official time" he said Falrcloth's amendment was the result of an Internet lesson gone wrong While showing the senator how to operate his own Web site an employee accessed the office computer games That was the end of those games and the beginning of Fair-cloth's crusade 12-PK on LIGHT JK firms RTtSJfl 1IJI a Imp -sr iut limm ZSJ9 7JI 14JI 1MI lLN 1LH Ihwni i 4MINLngI 17 Jl IJ9 1MI leWlBSf mmtrnt Ml Modlmim 'ST IM Ms? fenl KM wmmm 17 OWWIisJ "WW- Ml Ml 1U9 11 27JI Mini 17J1 8MI tnta wat 7 Jl 1 1 1 1 Id 4 fl A ft (C II itfflrtus--! 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