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i-1 Mi fiR1 11 nl Jed GOLF Presidents Cup back to S. BASEBAU. Yankees grab a tvvogame lead BASKETBALL Islah returns to Toronto Cliance of showers. High 17 Monday, October 23, 2000 www.thestar.com METRO EDITION 2 Barak calls time-out on peace Defiant Arafat tells Israeli PM to go to hell By Ron Kampeas ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM Ehud Barak called for a peace time-out and Yasser Arafat told him to gotoheH The Israeli and Palestinian leaders seemed further than ever yesterday from die peace their UJS. and Egyptian sponsors have tried so hard to salvage.

The violence in the West Bark and die Gaza Strip showed no signs of abating, and die ceasefire called during last weeks peace summit was little more than a memory. Four Palestinians died in clashes yesterday, two teenagers in the Gaza Strip and two men near the West Bank town of Hebron. The death toll from four weeks of violence now stands at 125, most of diem Other parties blast Chretien as arrogant for calling vote By William Walker OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF OTTAWA Canadians will face crystal-dear alternatives between the liberals and Canadian Alliance when they vote Nov. 27 in a federal election. Prime Minister Jean Chretien says.

"This election offers two very different visions of Canada, two crystal-dear alternatives, Ctuetten said yesterday after meeting Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson at Rideau Hall to officially dissolve die 36th Parliament, making die long-awaited vote official Decision 2000 Sunday family day for Day, A7 Outlook in the East, West, AS Chantal Heberts view, A9 The biDs that died, A10 The Star's view, A22 We want Canadians to compare our approach with die alternative, said. The nature of that choice is now dear and the right time to choose is now. But Chretien was immediately accused by all opposition parties of arrogance for calling an election, expected to cost up to $200 million, only three and a half years into a five-year term. Canadian Alliance MP Jason Kenney, co-chairman of the Alliance campaign, charged Chidden was staging an dec-don now only to further his personal goals, and he called the Liberal record one of arrogance rather than moderation. Canadians are tired of this government, said Kenney, speaking for Alliance Leader Stockwell Day, who doesn't campaign Sundays.

Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark charged die cost of the election is essentially a "vanity fund for Chretien to obtain a third consecutive majority. Jean Chretien walked off die job and left most of his work undone, Clark said in Digby, N.S. This decdon is designed to serve his personal ambitions and the short-term PImss us Chrftta, AT Peaceful pretests urged, A17 Palestinian gunmen in die Palestinian-held village of Beit Jalla and in Bethlehem fired on apartment buildings in Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem. No injuries were immediately reported in Gila Israeli helicopter gunships retaliated by rocketing Beit Jalla in two hours of fighting that was among the fiercest in the Jerusalem environs since dashes broke out Sept 28. Ten Palestinians were wounded, and electricity and phone lines were down in Beit Jalla, radio reports said.

We need to have a time-out reassess the peace process in light of the events of die last few weeks, Barak told his weekly cabinet meeting yesterday. One would have to be blind to security and political needs to continue as if nothing has changed, he said. A statement issued by Bair- Pleasa sm React A17 BUJNT CHALLENGE: Jean Chretien delivers a passionate speech yesterday in his hometown of Shawinigan, on the first day of the federal campaign. Chretien said Quebecers have lost interest in separatism. a make or break battle seats.

Their majority depends largely on the continued support of Ontarians. It is die province that twice rejected die Reform party under Preston Manning, only electing one Reformer in 1993 and shutting out the western-based party entirely in 1997. The Alliance, picking up PkiM sm Leaders, A10 here if his Liberals are to form a majority government while Stockwell Day must make a dramatic breakthrough in the vote-rich province if die Canadian Alliance is to have any chance of an election upset Over the next five weeks, all parly leaders except the Bloc Gilles Du-ceppe will spend (vast amount? of time in Ontario and shell out millions of dol Ontario Leaders to blitz key province to keep or win votes By Caroline Mallan QUEENS PARK BUREAU CHIEF Once again, Ontario is the real battleground in a federal election. Jean must win big HARRYS CREATOR: J.K. Rowling at Toronto press conference yesterday.

lars in campaign advertising and other election costs. As a sign of how important the province is, Chritien and NDP Leader Alexa McDonough began campaigning yesterday in Ontario while Day will start campaigning today with a bus tour through southern Ontario. The most populous province in Canada is where Chretien's Liberals hold all but two ings, but Ive never done it fore in these numbers, die writer of the Harry Potter series said yesterday at a Toronto press conference. "The most Ive read for was 2,000 in Germany, with a translator, she said at the Royal York Hotel, where she later was given the keys to die city by Mayor Mel Lastman and spoke briefly at a $500-a-plate benefit luncheon. She joked she agreed to do die SkyDome reading in a Terrified of SkyDome date, Harry Potter author admits Catholic teachers start work-to-rule Greater Toronto: Demise of Adams Mines gives recycling new life B1 Biz: New software aims to make Web truly world wide, El weak moment when she was in the middle of writing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the latest in the series, and just wanted to be left alone to write.

The. reading is a way to reach a lot of children. But Im plainly not a rode star, not the Rolling Stones. Organizers for die reading, part of the International Festival of Authors, will not comment on ticket sales, saying on- Plaass sm Shs's All Her biggest audience for a reading was 2,000 ByJudyStoffman ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER The worlds most popular childrens author, J.K. Rowling, admitted yesterday that shes terrified of reading at die SkyDome tomorrow.

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