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VOLUME 261 NUMBER 95 50 cents FOR THIS YA BLOOM Today: Partly tunny, then late clouds, 45 Tomouow: Partly tunny, highs in the lower 40 High tide: 5:13 ant, 6:0 p.m. Full report: Page B12 Friday, April 5 2 0 0 2 Bash's call on Mideast: 'Enough President firm with 2 sides, dispatches Powell to region lllllllllltllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Israelis and Palestinians gear for more battle amid truce talk 1) By Anne E. Kornblut GLOBE STAFF WASHINGTON Plunging into the Mideast conflict, President Bush called on Israel yesterday to end its military assaults on Palestinian-controlled areas and emphatically urged Palestinian and other Arab leaders to take a stronger stand against terrorism. Bush also dispatched Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region, part of a new push not only to curb the violence in the region but also to answer the growing chorus of international criticism of perceived White House inaction as the bloodshed has steadily worsened in recent weeks. "Storms of violence cannot go on.

Enough is enough," Bush said, outlining a sweeping vision for the Middle East for the first time since last year. In a 17-minute Rose Garden appearance that had been in the works since last week, Bush sought to reconcile two seemingly incongruous aspects of administration policy: support for the Middle East peace process, which has treated Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as a statesman, and the US war on terrorism, which condemns both terrorists and governments like the Palestinian Authority that fail to crack down on homegrown terror. In crafting a more comprehensive approach to the Middle East conflict, Bush stepped back from BUSH, Page A18 By Charles A. Radin GLOBE STAFF TEL AVTV Palestinians and Israelis yesterday braced for especially severe fighting in coming days despite President Bush's intervention in the Mideast conflict and his declaration that "enough is enough." Nablus, a West Bank city of 200,000, was without electricity, and large numbers of fighters armed with guns and bombs were massing in the casbah, the oldest section of the city, where streets are too narrow for Israeli tanks and armored vehicles to operate. Fierce fighting raged in Jenin, where three Israeli soldiers were killed and another wounded, and a fourth Israeli soldier was killed in Hebron, south of Jerusalem.

Four Palestinians were killed in Nablus and one in Bethlehem. Tensions also deepened on Israel's northern border, where clashes occurred between Israeli forces and units of the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization. And in Bethlehem, a standoff continued between Israeli troops and an estimated 250 armed Palestinian fighters who sought refuge in the Church of the Nativity, built above the site traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Jesus. In a sign of more hopeful diplo-MIDEAST, Page A16 if, irtlflrtfl i President Bush with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell during yesterday's address.

Excerpts of Bush's remarks, A18. IHMMIIMmllHHnHMIIMinniMllmimnlllHIinmHIHIHMMMMHMIIIMHIHIIMMHIMHIIMIMIIIMMIIIHIHiniHHiniimmMMMmm PLEA, SENTENCING END ZANTOP MURDER CASE Birr- na i WtWjMW eu.kmku.mmM I i I rx-j'ti imWll I ti ai iii 3 luananmianBmBnaava Afghanistan spring brings new challenge to US, allies By Bryan Bender GLOBE CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON American and allied military forces are entering a more uncertain period of the war in Afghanistan as spring weather arrives with the prospect of hunting down thousands of remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters who could resort to guerrilla tactics, US officials and military analysts said. As the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan hits the six-month mark this weekend, military commanders are preoccupied with keeping their battlefield momentum and preventing a counteroffensive by militant supporters of the ousted regime or the terrorist network. At the same time, they are starting the difficult task of training and equipping a new Afghan army and helping prepare for a group of tribal elders to choose a new government in June, a key turning point in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. Approval is seen near for a US military command to defend the nation against terrorism and respond to disasters.

A13. Military officers and private analysts predicted that the next few months will determine whether Afghanistan will remain the US success story it has been called. US and coalition forces must now destroy the remaining Taliban and Al Qaeda operating in the country. Those elements pose a threat not only to coalition forces but to the new Afghan government, whose level of support among its ethnically divided residents will determine whether the country breaks with its bloody past or slides back into civil war. The fear is that this thing will come unraveled with a higher level of guerrilla warfare that requires a larger American force to become engaged," said John Pike, director of AFGHANISTAN, Page A1S GLOBE STAFF PHOTOWENDY MAEDA GLOBE POOL PHOTO Robert W.

Tulloch (left) peering from a police cruiser after he pleaded guilty yesterday, and James J. Parker during his court hearing. A silent luUoch gets life in prison, Parker 25 years By Marcella Bombardieri and Douglas Belkin GLOBE STAFF NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. In a day of wrenching courtroom drama, teenagers Robert W. Tulloch and James J.

Parker stood before the children of their victims, their own parents, and an array of reporters yesterday to accept responsibility for the murders of two Dartmouth College professors. At two riveting hearings just hours apart in the Grafton County Court house, Tulloch pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder for the slayings of Half and Susanne Zantop while Parker, his partner, was sentenced on a plea bargain to 25 years to life for his role in the crime. Tulloch, who had originally planned to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, was automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The hearings closed one of the most notorious murder cases in New England's memory and dramatically sealed and the prosecutor said that after killing the Zantops, Tulloch and Parker drove from the murder scene to Barnes Noble to browse for books about how to cope with being a killer. The coldness of the crime was in stark contrast to emotional victim-impact statements delivered by the Zan-tops's children.

With her sister by her side, Veronika Zantop told the court about enduring "absolute horror, disbelief, pain, sadness, and anger" at the MURDERS, Page B6 the fate of childhood friends from a tiny Vermont town who committed a crime that garnered national headlines. In the fullest account to date, the chief prosecutor detailed the twisted path the two teenagers took over a year's time, as they went from petty burglaries and stealing mail for credit card numbers, to planning home-invasion robberies with commando knives, and dig-, ging graves in advance for at least one intended murder. They didnt plan everything, though, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Prisoner rehabilitation revived as cause in Mass. IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM Inside Today Accounting deal Embattled Arthur Andersen LLP announces that a "significant" -number of its US tax partners and professionals will move to rival Deloitte Tbuche. Business, CL Features Classified ks inmates freed, crime fears rise i s- -r I Comics E20-21 Crossword E20 B9-11 A22 E20 B2 E8-9 Deaths Editorials Horoscope Lottery Movies DONNA COX Says suspicions ignored Classified D1S-24 E22-26 Autos E22 Help Wanted D22 Professional D22 Real Estate D17 Apartments D19 Comm'llnd'l D19 Market Basket D24 YachtsBoats D2 Worker's warnings on priests led to her firing By Stephen Kurkjian GLOBE STAFF ROLLA, Mo.

Last month's, resignation of Palm Beach, Bishop Anthony O'Connell following accusations that he ed a Missouri seminarian did not surprise youth worker Donna Cox. A decade ago, after O'Connell became a bishop, Cox complained about possible sexual misconduct at the seminary O'Connell ran for a quarter century. But instead of acting on her' complaints, which included six other priests, the chancellor of the Jefferson City piocese swore Cox to secrecy and then fired her after Cox expressed concern that nothing was being No investigation was ever conducted, even though Cox said she passed on allegations involving TVRadio C13-14 Qiob Ntwspapar Co. Now, with violence on the rise and the sound of tens of thousands of cell doors clanging open, Democratic candidates vying for the highest office in Massachusetts are starting to mouth the words that branded Michael Dukakis soft on crime: literacy, drug treatment, and supervised release. In a debate this week where issues ranged from fiscal crisis to abortion, three of the gubernatorial candidates said they supported offering job training, housing, or drug addiction treatment for inmates coming out of prison.

"We need to make sure that those that come out of jail and Incarceration for drug offenses are set up so they don't go back again," former Democratic National Committee chairman Steven Grossman said. Where Willllam F. Weld the candidate once rode a wave of popularity with vows to "reintroduce Massachusetts prisoners to REHABILITATION, Pag A21 ByFrancieLatour GLOBE STAFF Fourteen years after a fur-toughed killer named Willie Hor-ton helped sink a presidential bid and kill all talk of reforming criminals in this state, rehabilitation is snaking a comeback. For the better part of two years, plice and prisoners' rights advo-icates have warned of record num-bers of inmates heading home to 'the cities and corners they once terrorized. These are not rapists out on a visiting pass, they have said.

These are the prisoners who have served their sentences down to the last day, some of them sent straight from a maximum-security cell. And without money and mentors and housing and jobs to help them, they are the state's next big prime wave. For breaking news, updated Globe stories, and more, visit: Boston.com Genetic secrets of rice discovered Researchers working on three continents have decoded the genetic profile of rice, a breakthrough with vast nutritional and commercial implications. The findings could allow farmers to grow rice that has been genetically altered to contain extra vitamins and may help unravel genetic secrets of other staples. A2.

two priests at the seminary for high school boys and four priests who served elsewhere, and raised questions about O'Connellls stewardship of the seminary. In the intervening years, O'Connell was elevated to bishop of Palm Beach from a similar post in Knoxville, Tenn. His resignation brings to five the number of priests Cox identified for the dio--cese who were later removed from service after subsequent accusations of abuse, COX, Page A20 145 3 7 0 "9477251.