Arafat leaves for Washington; West Bank violence continues

By JOEL GREENBERG, N.Y. Times News Service

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JERUSALEM — Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli customs agent and Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinian teenagers in the Gaza Strip Wednesday on the eve of a meeting in Washington between President Clinton and Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader.

Arafat left Wednesday for Washington, where he is scheduled to meet Clinton on Thursday to discuss ways to revive peace efforts, which have been devastated by more than five weeks of street clashes and gun battles that have left more than 180 people dead, most of them Palestinians.

As Arafat headed for Washington, Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel sent a letter to world leaders criticizing what he called Arafat's resort to violence and urging a negotiated agreement on a Palestinian state.

"The only road to be taken is the one leading to an honorable, agreed-upon, negotiated birth of a Palestinian state," Barak wrote in the letter released by his office. The violence has persisted despite a truce agreed upon last week and an earlier cease-fire accord reached last month.

How this transcription was made

Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping. Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “The Naples Daily News”.

Context added by this archive

Full page scan, clipped at the left and right edges where neighbouring columns bleed in. No masthead, no folio, no printed date; date is label-only. 'EMOTIONAL DEMONSTRATION' set in caps above the photograph is a PHOTO-PACKAGE KICKER, not a deck; the article's headline is the two-line 'Arafat leaves for Washington; West Bank violence continues'. There is no deck.

WIRE-COPY DIVERGENCE, and this is the one worth showing Maria: the Anderson Independent Mail ran the same Joel Greenberg dispatch on the same day and stopped after Faris Odeh.

The Naples Daily News runs three more paragraphs and names two more Palestinian children, Muhammad Abu Ghali, 16, and Raed Daoud, 14, plus two unnamed young men who died of earlier wounds, plus the state commission inquiry into 'the deaths of 13 Arabs killed in unrest in Israeli-Arab communities last month'.

Naples also strips every 'Mr.' honorific that Anderson keeps, and prints 'meet Clinton on Thursday' where Anderson prints the garbled 'meet Mr. Clinton on today'. Two photographs. Caption one: 'Palestinian mourners burn a U.S. flag during the funeral procession of 24-year-old Said abu Khatia in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.

Abu Khatia was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during clashes on Tuesday.' (Associated Press (2)). Caption two: 'The shadow of a Palestinian demonstrator is cast upon a wall as he throws a stone during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday.' The lower-case 'abu' in 'Said abu Khatia' is the paper's own and is kept as printed.

Columns two and three were read at page magnification except for the Abu Ghali / Daoud paragraphs, which were transcribed from a magnified crop.

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"Arafat leaves for Washington; West Bank violence continues," Naples Daily News, 9 November 2000. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2000-066. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2000-066