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Jackson Sun Saturday, May 18, 2002 Palestinians call for Israeli departure before elections start By HADEEL WAHDAN The Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinian officials said Friday that Israel must pull back its troops and lift sweeping travel restrictions before they would hold an election that would require Yasser Arafat to face voters for the first time in six years. Israeli officials said the conditions meant Arafat, who is under growing pressure from abroad and at home to reform his corrupt government, is not serious about facing the voters. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, meanwhile, Israeli soldiers killed four people: an Israeli Arab woman who was shot dead when soldiers opened fire on her taxi, a 7-year-old boy who was killed during a stone throwing incident and two armed Palestinians who tried to infiltrate into Israeli settlements. Israeli troops also raided the battle-scarred Jenin refuges, camp detained dozens Palestinians. An Israeli soldier was wounded, the army said.

A Palestinian man was killed in an explosion of a homemade bomb that was planted in the camp by fighters last month, sources in the camp said. Israel wrapped up. a six-week military offensive against Palestinian militias in the West Bank last week, but has continued to carry out arrest raids, such as the one in the Jenin camp. The incursions into Palestiniancontrolled areas illustrate the difficulties the Palestinians would face in preparing for elections. "We are looking to run the Obituaries Information supplied by West Tennessee Funeral Directors Billy Neal Davis, 69 HENDERSON Services will be 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 19, 2002, at Mt. Zion C.M.E. Church of Henderson. He is survived by his daughter, Gloria Ford of Detroit, MI, and sister, Betty Davis Wynn of Henderson, TN. Visitation will be from 1:30 p.m.

on Sunday until the time of the service. For more call Cosmopolitan Funeral Services 731-424-2399. Charles William O'Bryan, 65 BOLIVAR Services will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2002 at Shackelford Funeral Home Chapel in Bolivar with burial to follow in Grand Junction Cemetery. Survivors are wife, Carolyn S.

O'Bryan; sons, Mike and Pat O'Bryan, and five grandchildren. For more call Shackelford Funeral Home Bolivar 731-658-5277. Jessie Pearl Wyatt, 89 BETHEL SPRINGS Services for Mrs. Jessie Pearl Wyatt, 89, will be Today, 3:00 p.m. at Shackelford Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in Mt.

Gilead Cemetery. She is survived by her daughter, Tommie Burleson of Bethel Springs, TN. She was preceded in death by her husband, the late Jessie Lyndell Wyatt. For more call Shackelford Funeral Directors of Selmer 731-645-3481. Sabrina Joyce Gooch, 36 JACKSON Services are Today 11:00 a.m.

at Church of the Nazarene, with burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Survivors are husband, Albert Gooch; mother, Leaner Miller; father, Aaron Toliver, Daughter, Aquila Gooch; sons, Jacquies Javon Gooch; sisters, Michelle, Eugenie, Maria, Leaner; brothers, Roscoe, James, Aaron III, Ronald, Gregory. Mercer Brothers Funeral Home 731-423-4922 Orda Pipkin MIDDLETON Services for Mrs. Orda Pipkin, 93, will be 1:00 p.m.

Today at Shackelford Funeral Home Chapel in Bolivar, with burial to follow in New Hope Cemetery near Middleton. Mrs. Pipkin, a homemaker, died Thursday, May 16, 2002 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Collierville. Mrs. Pipkin was a member of New Hope Church of Christ.

Survivors are sons, Homer Lee Pipkin and Jimmy Pipkin, both of Middleton; six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be given to the donor's choice of charities. For more call Shackelford Funeral Home 731-658-5277. Clara Johnson Services for Clara Johnson, 90, will be at 2:00 PM Sunday, May 19, 2002 at the North Chapel of George A. Smith and Sons with Rev.

Windal Walker officiating. Burial will follow in Hollywood Cemetery. Mrs. Johnson, widow of Floyd Johnson, died Friday, May 17, 2002 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church.

She leaves a daughter, Geraldine and her husband Bill Webster of Medina; four sons, Wayne Johnson of Jackson, Danny Johnson and his wife, Cathy of Florida and Clarence Johnson and his wife, Maxine and James Johnson and his wife, Captola both of Jackson; six grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends at the North Chapel of George A. Smith and Sons from 5:00 till 8:00 PM today. George A. Smith and Sons North Chapel 731-427-5555 election within six months," said Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath, adding that work had begun on putting together the roster of 1.6 million eligible Arafat voters.

"But these elec- Arafat tions need an Israeli withdrawal to the places before Sept. 28, 2000," Shaath added, referring to the date the current round of fighting erupted. Such a withdrawal would require the Israelis to remove dozens of checkpoints and pull back forces outside of major Palestinian cities. The checkpoints restrict most Palestinians to their home towns, cities or villages. Such a pullback is also part of a Lynda Lee Warden Webb Savannah Services for Lynda Lee Warden Webb, 63, will be Today, 1:00 p.m.

at Shackelford Chapel in Savannah, with graveside services and burial to follow at 4:30 p.m. in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern. She died Thursday, May 16, 2002, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Mrs. Webb served as the Executive Director of the Miss Bluegrass Pageant.

Survivors are daughters, Cheryl Shaw of Counce, TN, Michelle Jerrolds and Kelly Curtis, both of Savannah, TN; and sister, Geneva Dale Smith of Dyersburg, TN. Shackelford Funeral Home 731-925-4000 Leslie I. Jaco, Sr. Services for Leslie I. will be at 10:30 AM 18, 2002 at First United Church with Dr.

Paul officiating. Burial will Ridgecrest Cemetery. Jaco died Thursday, 2002 at Jackson General Hospital. was born in Booneville, on October 3, the son of J. J.

Jaco Jaco. He graduated University of Mississippi in Civil Engineering After graduation he the Tennessee Valley then joined H. K. building the Milan Ammunition plant. He U.S.

Army and served European Theater during II. After the war he Tennessee see National with the rank of Major twenty-two years of service. founded Jaco's Music Jackson in 1946 with his John. He ran this business until selling it in retirement he assisted Les, in the operation Green Golf Club for Jaco was active in community affairs throughout He was a former the Jackson Jaycees, Rotary International, Area Chamber of He was instrumental organizing the Beaver member of First Methodist Church he served in many capacities. to the Dick Nunn Class.

was an avid golfer and of the Jackson Country served on the Board of and chaired the Greens for several years. affectionately as "Daddy special interest in the of many junior golfers unofficially served as a golf University School of later years. Jaco is survived by sixty years, Martha and three children, Golden and her husband B. Golden, Leslie and his wife Pam and Epps and her husband, Epps, and a special Dr. Roderick C.

Webb, wife Diane. He also Martha J. Bennett John W. Jaco AR. His grandchildren Golden Billions, Golden, Mary Jaco B.

Golden, Benjamin Leslie Ann Epps, Mary Jaco, Margaret Ann Lauren Webb, R. Webb. His in his final days grandchildren will casketbearers. Honorary are Clifford Worsham, Myhr, Dr. Ben House, Harlon Lett, Elbert Woodruff, Robert Fleming, Barton Williams, Devon Oliver Graves, Lee Hurley, Stanfield.

family requests that be sent to First United Church. George A. Smith and North Chapel 731-427-5555 Memorial U.S.-backed truce plan, whose author, CIA chief George Tenet, is expected to meet in the coming weeks with security officials from both sides. Arafat, when asked Friday whether elections could take place before an Israeli withdrawal, said: "Definitely "It is very difficult to have elections with occupation," he added. An Israeli official dismissed the Palestinian calls for a withdrawal.

"On the one hand he talks about reforms, now he has an excuse not to execute those reforms," said Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "He knows very well that as long as he doesn't take any action against terrorism, the Israeli forces will have to remain there." Arafat is under pressure from the United States, the European Union and his own people to reform the corruption-ridden Palestinian Authority and to hold elections. On Thursday, the Palestinian parliament demanded that the Cabinet be disbanded and a new one be formed within 45 days. It also called for elections by the beginning of 2003. Despite growing misgivings about Arafat's autocratic leadership style, Palestinians continue to see him as a symbol of their struggle for independence.

The only challenger so far is Abdel Sattar Qassem, a Palestinian political scientist and dissident jailed for 14 months by Arafat's security forces. Qassem, a 53-yearold professor at An Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus, said Friday he would run on an LEE Associated Press A group of British Royal Marines rest prior to departure for Operation Condor at Bagram airbase, some 50 kilometers northeast of Kabul, on Friday. British forces launched a new offensive hunting al-Qaida members in southern Afghanistan. Troops launch attacks on suspects in province By TODD PITMAN The Associated Press BAGRAM, Afghanistan Backed by U.S. air power, some 1,000 coalition troops spread out into mountainous eastern Afghanistan Friday to find and fight suspected al- or Taliban soldiers who had fired on an Australian patrol.

Brig. Roger Lane, the top British commander in Afghanistan, said the targeted assembly of suspected al-Qaida or Taliban fighters in Paktia province, was "a substantial enemy force," though he declined to give a number. U.S. military spokesman Maj. Bryan Hilferty said later the coalition believes there are about 100 al-Qaida or Taliban fighters in the area.

No coalition fighters were hurt during Thursday's attack on an Australian special forces patrol, Lane said, though some suspected al-Qaida and Taliban soldiers were killed. "Our ability to respond rapidly to such attacks will serve as a reminder that the coalition will not tolerate such activity and we will hunt the terrorists relentlessly," Lane said from Bagram, the main allied base north of Kabul. The new mission begun Friday involved mostly British troops and was named Operation Condor. All three missions the British have led since coming to Afghanistan in April have been named for birds; the first was Operation Ptarmigan, after a Scottish mountain bird, and the second was Operation Snipe, which the British define as a variety of slender-billed birds. In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said: "There are now and there will be in the future a variety of efforts where coalition forces will be conducting sweeps through areas that we have reason to believe could or might or do have varying concentrations of al-Qaida or Taliban." Rumsfeld said this frequently is done in cooperation with Pakistani forces "so the possibility of escape is reduced." Meanwhile, fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was quoted in the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat saying the war in Afghanistan had entered a new phase and that Osama bin Laden, head of the al-Qaida terror network, is alive.

don't consider the battle ended in the battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny" for its war on Islam, Omar was quoted as say1 ing. The authenticity of the quotes could not be independently confirmed. Rumsfeld said he had no "current information on the whereabouts or even the existence" of bin Laden or Omar. The 1,000 coalition soldiers in anti-corruption platform.

Qassem is Western-educated and secular, but sympathizes with Islamic militant groups and supports suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. He does not recognize Israel, and opposes the interim peace agreements Arafat has made with Israel. In the Askar refugee camp near Nablus, Israeli soldiers fired tankmounted machine guns at stonethrowing Palestinians on Friday, killing 7-year-old Amid Abu Sir, witnesses said. Six others were wounded, including three boys in their early teens, Palestinian doctors said. Abu Sir was in his home, but the large-caliber bullets penetrated the house, witnesses and relatives said.

The army said it was checking the report. Fires put out aboard ferry carrying 884 Betty Yvonne Williams, 65 HOLLOW ROCK Graveside services for Mrs. Betty Yvonne Williams, 65, will be held Today, 2:30 p.m. at Mt. Carmel Cemetery.

Mrs. Williams died Thursday May 16, 2002, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. For more information, call Dilday Funeral Home 731-986-8281. Evelyn Scott, 75 SAVANNAH Services for Mrs. Evelyn Scott, 75 will be Today, 11:00 a.m.

at Shackelford Chapel with burial to follow in Memory Gardens of Hardin County. Mrs. Scott, a homemaker, died May 16, 2002 at Hardin County General Hospital of Savannah. For more call Shackelford Funeral Home 731-925-4000. Stanley Blackburn, 59 CAMDEN Services will be held Today, 3:00 p.m.

at StockdaleMalin Chapel with Burial to follow at Benton Memorial Garden. Survivors are wife, Sandra Weatherly Blackburn; daughter, Suzanne Wilkey; sons, Stan and Steve Blackburn; and brothers, Bradley and Mickey Blackburn. For more call Stockdale-Malin Funeral Home 731-584-8282. Martin Roosevelt "Buddy" Hutcheson, 68 MCKENZIE Services will be held Sunday, May 19, 2002, 2:00 p.m. at Brummitt Funeral Home.

Private burial will follow at a later date. Survivors are mother, Elizabeth Hutcheson; sisters, Betty Reynolds, Mary Jane Hutchins, Shirley McCormack, and Peggy Burton, and brother, John Hutcheson. For more call Brummitt Funeral Home 731-352-2222. Travis F. Jones, 86 HENDERSON Services will be 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 19, 2002 at Casey Funeral Home with burial to follow at Henderson City Cemetery. Survivors are son, Don Jones and I wife Pat of Jacks Creek, and half-sister, Dorothy Brower Young of Luray. He was preceded in death by his wife, Robbie O'Neal Jones in 1999. For more call Casey Funeral Home 731-989-2421. Berry Marvin Sartain STANTON Graveside services for Mr.

Berry Marvin Sartain, 77, will be Today, 11:00 a.m. at Brownsville Memorial Gardens. Mr. Sartain died Thursday, May 16, 2002 at Covington Care Center. Survivors include daughters, Movelle Murdock of Douglasville, GA and Judy Tapp of Stanton, TN; sisters Ruth Fisher of Port Richey, FL, Ann Freeman of Memphis, TN, and Peggy Ruffin of Covington, TN; brothers, Scotty Sartain and Calvin Sartain, both of Covington, TN; 4 grandchildren and 1 greatgrandchild.

Brownsville Funeral Home 731-772-1551 www.brownsvillefuneralhome.com Nora Mae Welch Yarbro PARSONS Services for Mrs. Nora Mae Welch Yarbro, 85, will be held Today at 1:00 p.m. at Parsons Mortuary Chapel, with burial to follow in Campground Cemetery. Mrs. Yarbro died May 16, 2002 in Sparta, TN.

Survivors include daughter, Martha Kindle of Sparta, TN; son, Mike Yarbro of Decaturville, TN; sister, Naomi Mclllwain of Manchester, TN, and brother, John Welch of Decaturville, TN. She was preceded in death by her husband, the late Jacob Forrest Yarbro. Parsons Mortuary 731-847-3441 Obit Line: 731-845-1980 Death Notice Policy: The Jackson Sun will allow the first fifteen lines of copy in the death notice to be at no charge. The family will determine the text of these lines. Those desiring more than the fifteen lines may purchase any additional lines through their funeral home or the Classified department of The Jackson Sun.

By THOMAS WAGNER The Associated Press LONDON Two fires broke out aboard a ferry carrying 884 people in the North Sea off Scotland on Friday night, and several helicopters and ships were rushed there on a rescue mission. However, Princess of Scandinavia crew members extinguished fires in the engine room the smokestack early this morning without outside help, and no serious injuries were reported, said the Scandinavian owners of the vessel. The British air forces said that the engines aboard the ton passenger and auto ferry were knocked out by the fire and that it was floating freely in the calm North Sea. But most of the rescue helicopters and ships were called back from the scene. "All fires on board the Princess of Scandinavia are out," said a spokesman for the Danish DFDS group.

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