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BEST AVAILABLE COPY A8 Arizona Daily Star Tuesday, August 27, 2002 World 7 Israeli Arabs accused of aiding suicide bomber U.N. summit on development opens with flap over agenda Johannesburg Summit 2002 The United Nations development and environmental summit opened Monday with developing nations wanting promises for greater aid and cooperation from the West. Increasing demand for food in the developing world threatens the environment and biodiversity. could have considerable opportunity to prepare attacks. The seven men whose arrests were made public Monday were accused of storing explosives in a nursery school, scouting the target and preparing, concealing and guiding the bomber, who came from the West Bank.

Israel has been wary of Israeli Arabs as a potential fifth column in the Palestinian struggle, but their involvement in terror attacks has never reached levels sufficiently alarming to rouse talk of extraordinary measures. Since the start of the current spate of violence almost two years ago, however, the number of incidents has steadily risen, reflecting a growing disquiet among the Israeli Arabs. According to Israeli television, there were eight cases of Israeli Arabs involved in attacks in 2000, then 25 last year, and 27 between January and July of this year. The latest arrests have added 12 more. The numbers are still marginal, compared to the thousands of Palestinians who have been killed or arrested as militants during the uprising.

the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Alternative gathering About 12,600 delegates including government officials, journalists and members of nongovernmental organizations had already showed up by Monday. About 50,000 people were expected to participate by the time the conference ends, making it the largest in U.N. history. About 20 miles away, a more colorful, but less organized, gathering of activists called the Global Peoples' Forum struggled to gain momentum.

Delegates there sang and danced, waved placards and meditated while campaigning for everything from better access to clean water to world peace. One sculptor fashioned penguins from ice with a chain saw, leaving them to melt in the sun to represent global warming. But the announced keynote speaker, former South African President Nelson Mandela, did not show up. His office said the organizers never invited him. The government summit is being held in Sandton, South Africa's swankiest commercial district of palatial marble-and-glass towers.

They loom over the squalid township of Alexandra, where many people live in the hopeless conditions that the summit seeks to erase. The summit, at a conference center, was sealed off by crete barriers and metal fences. An security force is deployed to help prevent the kind of violence seen in past years' meetings in Seattle and Genoa, Italy. In the event's first protests, Zimbabwean and Ethiopian opposition activists peacefully demonstrated Monday against their governments. Bush chastised as no-show More than 100 heads of state arrive for the summit next week.

Many environmental activists have criticized President Bush for not attending. 'The official list of participating world leaders was not complete, but among top leaders expected were Britain's Tony Blair and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder. Like Bush, Russia's Vladimir Putin will not attend. By the time the leaders arrive, negotiators hope to have hammered out detailed timetables for tackling problems of energy, biodiversity, food security, clean water and health care. Unlike the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which opened with two minutes of silence for a "dying" planet, delegates here immediately delved THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Aiming for its largest gathering ever, the United Nations opened a global summit Monday to seek ways of protecting nature while boosting living standards for the world's poorest people.

In the opening speech, South African President Thabo Mbe-ki said the world has an urgent obligation to narrow the divide between the rich and the poor. "For the first time in human history, human society possesses the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment," he said. There were a wide range of issues on the agenda and as many arguments. Officials from the United States and the European Union were at odds over the usefulness of targets and timetables for such issues as sanitation. The EU considers setting specific goals central to the summit's agenda, while U.S.

officials say launching projects is more important than documents. "A global human society based on poverty for many and prosperity for a few, characterized by islands of wealth surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable," Mbeki told delegates at the opening session of THE NEW YORK TIMES JERUSALEM Israel announced on Monday that seven Arabs with Israeli citizenship were arrested and accused of assisting a suicide bomber, further heightening apprehensions that Israeli Arabs were increasingly joining in the violent tactics of the Palestinians. According to officials, the seven, all from one clan in the northern village of Bana, were seized some time ago by the security officers and the police, but the arrests were made public only on Monday. The seven were accused of assisting a Hamas suicide bomber who blew up a bus on Aug. 4, killing nine.

Last Wednesday, security officials announced the roundup of five Arab residents of East Jerusalem whom they charged with involvement in a string of terror attacks, raising demands for more stringent measures against Israeli Arabs. Israeli Arabs can travel freely across Israel, and so are not constrained by the severe restrictions imposed on the West Bank and Gaza. If they chose, they V- 17 Basque party hobbled Psychiatric group to check reports of abuse in China 4 The Associated Press Mahmoud Bakri, left, brother Marwan and sister Rebecca, kneeling at right, are among Israeli Arabs accused of terror involvement, chiatrists demanded a more independent commission and urged the association to consider barring the Chinese Psychiatric Association if evidence of abuse was found. Whether China routinely uses its psychiatric hospitals imprison political or religious troublemakers has been subject of hot debate, with international experts holding wildly divergent opinions. That debate has taken on a particular urgency in the last two years, with charges that members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement have been committed to institutions not because they are mentally ill, but because they hold unconventional beliefs.

But Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a psychiatrist at Harvard University who has spent decades collaborating with his Chinese counterparts, said the charges are groundless. Asia C3 Africa Latin Developed America countries" Forest cover million hectares' 1,200 800-600 400-200- Hectare equals 2.47 acres Developed countries Include Europe, North America, Japan, New Zealand and Australia SOURCE: U.N.World Health AP Report 2000 into pragmatic assessments of the world's most pressing needs. "We must have this sense of urgency that we have no time to lose," summit Secretary-General Nitin Desai said. Developing nations are trying to extract more aid and greater access to Western markets and technology from the summit.

The United States is resisting any new aid targets or timetables, while demanding that aid recipients reduce corruption. tikas symbolizing Spanish "fascism." National police evicted 20 provincial assembly legislators and members of the party from its office in the northern city of Pamplona, Spanish radio reported Monday night. Several hooded youths wielding clubs smashed the windows of a bus in the seaside city of San Sebastian after forcing its passengers to disembark, the Europa Press news agency reported. In the port city of Bilbao, Batasuna spokesman Arnaldo Otegi said Monday's actions "have proven that Spain is a fascist and authoritarian state" and said "Batasuna will continue working for sovereignty and independence." ETA is fighting to carve out an independent Basque homeland in lands straddling north-era Spain and southwest France. The parliamentary motion was passed during a special session convened during summer recess, with Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and his entire Popular Party government present.

Batasuna's offices will be closed and the 24-year-old party will be barred from calling public demonstrations or political rallies or receiving a share of electoral funds, according to Judge Garzon's order. The party also cannot run in municipal elections scheduled for May of next year. But lawmakers representing the party will be allowed to serve out their terms in the 75-member Basque regional parliament. The party won 10 percent of the vote in the last Basque regional election in May 2001. LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Seizure and Intent to Forfeit: U.S.

Customs Service, Fines Penalties Office, Nogales, Arizona August 13, 2002. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 607, Tariff Act of 1930, notice is hereby given of the seizure of the following merchandise to wit Case Number 2002-2604-00015901; Date 11242002; 1999 Dodge Durango VIN: 1B4HS28Z8XF696493; Amount Bond $1,768.50. Seized at Nogales, Arizona on the date(s) shown for violations of: 19USC1595a(a), 21USC952, 21USC881, 21USC841, 18USC545, 19CFR162.45A). Unless claim therefore is filed In this office in accordance with Section 608, Tariff Act of 1930, said merchandise will be declared forfeited on September 10, 2002, and will be disposed of as provided by law. Anyone claiming any of the above merchandise must file claim therefore and post the prescribed bond In the amount noted with this office within 20 days from the drat publication of this notice.

sCarmen P. Domlnguez Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures Officer Publish August 20, 27, September 3, 2002 The Arizona Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Bid 10446-03 Notice is hereby given that the Arizona State School Facilities Board for Sunnyside Unified School District, 2238 East Ginter Road, Tucson, Arizona 85706, INVITES SEALED BIOS FOR ADDITIONS AND RENOVATIONS AT LOS RAN-CHITOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Bidders may obtain the Drawings and Specifications and related documents August 26, 2002 from Tucson Blueprint, 537 N. 6th Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85705, Telephone (520)624-8881 upon deposit of one-hundred dollars. There will be a pre-bid meeting at 10:00 am. on September 4, 2002 at the Sunnyside Unified School District, 2238 E.

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Phone Number (602) 542-551 1 or fax your mailing address to: (602) 542-5508 or log on to: http:Avww.purchasing.state.az.us. Publish: August 27, 2002 Arizona Daily Star THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING The world's leading psychiatric association voted Monday to send a delegation of experts to China to look into charges that Chinese psychiatric hospitals are being used to silence political and religious dissidents. Officials of the World Psychiatric Association, which is meeting in Yokohama, Japan, said that Chinese health officials had been cooperative so far. A preliminary fact-gathering delegation is scheduled to travel to China next spring. But the resolution fell far short of steps proposed by human rights advocates and some other psychiatrists, who insist that systematic psychiatric abuses in China are rampant, perhaps even more severe than in the former Soviet Union.

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The government is expected to ask the Supreme Court on Friday to outlaw the party. If the justices endorse such a request, Batasuna would be the first political party banned since the 1939-75 dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Supporters of the Batasuna party, which has nearly 1,000 elected representatives, gathered outside party offices Monday night in the Basque region, waving red-white-and-green Basque flags and swas- LEGAL NOTICE U-Haul Company of Southern Arizona will be conducting an auction on Tuesday, August 27, 2002. The contents of the units listed beiow are household goods and are being auctioned to satisfy unpaid rental monies. The following storage units will be sold in complete lots.

5533 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson 85712 Units: Jean Valenzuela256 8:30 AM 2423 Palo Verde Rd Tucson 85716 Units: Glenn CurryA79, Susan PaulA85, Rick HofsheierB32, Glenn CurryB35, James BuchananD138, Richard PeckE1 6 9:30 AM 4040 W. Ina Rd. Tucson 85741 Units: AIRuhalt MahammedD115, Christian ValenciaD112, Christen GuinnD107 Publish August 13, 20, and 27, 2002 The Arizona Dally Star LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Seizure and Intent to Forfeit U.S.

Customs Service, Fines Penalties Office, Nogales, Arizona August 13, 2002. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 607, Tariff Act of 930, notice is hereby given of the seizure of the following merchandise to wit: Case Number 2002-2604-00055601; Date 04112002; U.S. Currency $2,528.00. Seized at Nogales, Arizona, on the date(s) shown for violations of; 31USC5317, 31 USC531 6, 31 USC5332. Unless claim therefore Is filed in this office In accordance with Section 608, Tariff Act of 1930, said merchandise will be declared forfeited on October 3, 2002, and will be disposed of as provided by law.

Anyone claiming any of the above merchandise must file claim therefore with this office within 30 days from the final publication of this notice. sCarmen P. Domlnguez Fines, Penalties, a Forfeitures Officer Publish August 20, 27, September 3, 2002 The Arizona Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF FORFEITURE UNITED STATES V. MONICA SANDOVAL ORTIZ Criminal No. 00-CR-271 Notice is hereby given that on or about July 29, 2002, in the case of United States v.

Monica Sandoval Ortiz, Criminal Number as above-cap-tioned, the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York entered a Preliminary Order of Forfeiture condemning and forfeiting the following property to the United States of America: One 1 998 Chevrolet Corvette VIN: 1G1YY32G5W51 12633 or any substituted res thereof The foregoing Preliminary Order of Forfeiture having been entered on or about July 29, 2002, the United States hereby gives notice of its intention to dispose of the forfeited property in such manner as the United States Attorney General may direct. Any person having or claiming a legal right, title or interest in the aforementioned properties must file a petition with the Court within thirty (30) days of the final publication of this notice and serve a copy of said petition upon Joseph A. Pavone, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, to the attention of Stephen Green, Assistant United States Attorney. The petition shall be signed by the petitioner under penalty of perjury and shall set forth the nature and extent of the petitioner's right, title or interest in the forfeited property, the time and circumstances of the petitioner's acquisition of the right, title and interest in the forfeited property and any additional facts supporting the petitioner's claim and the relief sought. sUnited States Marshal Service Northern District of New York Publish August 27, September 3, 10, 2002 The Arizona Daily Star Around the Mi mam wntm Wof VATICAN Pope cancels visit to Philippine Islands VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul won't visit the Philippines in January as he had hoped, the Vatican said Monday, the latest evidence that history's most traveled pontiff is being forced to slow down because of his health.

The Vatican had never confirmed the trip, but Vatican officials had said earlier this month that the pontiff, 82, wanted to attend the Roman Catholic Church's World Meeting of Families, an international religious conference focusing on family values, Jan. 22-26 in Manila. John Paul suffers from hip and knee ailments and the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, including slurred speech and hand tremors. SWEDEN Empty control tower keeps plane aloft STOCKHOLM The pilot of a passenger flight tried to land at an airport in a southern Swedish town but found no one at the control tower to give him clearance. It turned out that the controller had failed to return from vacation, and no one had noticed that the tower was not staffed.

The Scandinavian Airlines System's flight carrying 30 passengers from Stockholm was left to circle the airport Sunday at the Krisianstad airport while central traffic authorities called in another controller. About 30 minutes later, the Dash 8 aircraft landed safely at the airport, about 280 miles south of the capital. SLOVAKIA Was chief poisoned? BRATISLAVA With President Rudolf Schuster hospitalized for a fourth day Monday with intestinal problems, police have opened an investigation into whether he was poisoned, the press reported. Schuster's son Peter said he suspected that his father was the victim of foul play. Doctors said Schuster had gallstones and an infection in his digestive tract, which could be linked to salmonella poisoning.

So far, they have found no traces of poison. Slovakia will hold parliamentary elections next month, and Schuster is expected to play a major role in selecting the next prime minister. NETHERLANDS Milosevic war crime trial resumes THE HAGUE Slobodan Milosevic was back in court Monday after the monthlong summer recess of his war crimes trial. Milosevic, the former presi- dent of Yugoslavia, cross-exam- ined several witnesses who de- scribed atrocities in Kosovo. Prosecutors have until mid-; September to call more witness- -es and wrap up the Kosovo portion of the trial before moving on to charges related to the wars in Bosnia and Croatia.

SOUTH KOREA Apaches grounded SEOUL The U.S. Army grounded its 70 Apache helicopters in South Korea while memorial services were held on Monday for two pilots killed when their Apache 64A crashed Thursday in hilly terrain. Experts from the Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker, are investigating that crash and that of an Apache 64D on Aug. 1 in which no one was injured. 1 THAILAND Booby-trap drugs may be next ploy BANGKOK Seeking a de- terrent to a national plague of drug addiction, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Monday the government might manufacture fake methampheta- mine pills that make people vomit.

"I want the Public Health I Ministry to talk to psychiatrists and chemists on whether the government should produce drugs that give people head- I aches and nausea," he said. RUSSIA Toll rises to 117 in helicopter crash ROSTOV-ON DON The death toll in last week's crash of a military helicopter near the main Russian base in the south- ern republic of Chechnya rose to 117 on Monday as contradic- tory reports about the cause of the crash emerged. The official news agency Itar- Tass reported that an investiga- tion had concluded that a Chechen rebel missile, possibly stolen from a Russian army de- pot, had shot down the helicop- ter, which was carrying 147 peo- pie. Itar-Tass also reported that a I suspect had been detained, but Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei N. Fridinksy said later that no conclusion had been reached and that no one had been detained.

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