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...likely culprit. U.S. counterterrorism specialists told TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon the evidence seems to link the bombings in Buenos Aires and Panama last week, and the assault in London this week. What's more, they told her that Hizballah began planning "something fairly spectacular" after the Hebron massacre of Palestinians by American emigrant Baruch Goldstein in March. "They need to be seen as taking revenge on the West," one of the officials told Shannon. "They perceive the United States as having more control over Israel than we have . . . And Clinton is perceived as more pro-Israel than his predecessors...
...stir up public enthusiasm for self-rule. Spirits have been soured by the slow-moving negotiations as well as by tight restrictions locking out Palestinians who work in Israel, imposed after 13 Israelis died in suicide bombings by Palestinians seeking revenge for the February massacre of worshippers at a Hebron mosque. Middle-class Palestinians report that their poorer neighbors, deprived of the money they normally earn in Israel, are beginning to beg for basic provisions...
Israel had announced that a Palestinian police force would be deployed in - Jericho and the Gaza Strip and that international observers would take up posts in Hebron last week. Neither event took place, although the arrival of several hundred Palestinian police was vaguely rescheduled for this week. Contrary to the Jewish settlers' nightmares, the advance party of Palestinian police will not be allowed to roam freely with weapons; an Israeli military source insisted they will be unarmed and under Israeli supervision...
Members of Hamas say hundreds of activists in the Sheik Radwan quarter of Gaza City have been arrested by Israeli commando squads during the overnight curfews since the Feb. 25 Hebron massacre. Two weeks ago, an Israeli undercover unit shot dead six Fatah Hawks -- an armed group loyal to the P.L.O. -- in the Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli army apologized for the shooting -- not because the Palestinians, who were carrying weapons, were shot without warning, but because they were Arafat's men. "If they had been Hamas members, we would have been justified in killing them," contended an Israeli military...
...Afula, killing seven and wounding 40. Islamic fundamentalists claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as for three incidents on Thursday, in which one Israeli died and five others were wounded. On Friday, Israeli soldiers and Palestinians clashed after the Rev. Jesse Jackson pleaded for peace outside the Hebron mosque where 30 Muslims were shot dead by an Israeli extremist in February. Eight Palestinians were injured in the violence...