JUNE 21, 2007
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VOLUME 04, No. 8
KCET to open CSUF studio
Campus moves forward with plans for fifth PBS station for So Cal By Rachel Cannon Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
By MUHAMMED MUHEISEN/Associated Press
A territory divided - Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ security forces march along the streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday.
Israeli tanks enter Gaza Prime Minister Olmert comes to the aide of the new Palestinian leader By Diaa Hadid Associated Press Writer
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip. At the same time, Israel allowed in a few sick and wounded Palestinians of the hundreds of people who fled the violence – with many holed up for days at a fetid border passage with Gaza. A teenager with leukemia and four other Palestinians in need of medical care went through the tunnel at the Erez crossing in Israel, the military said. Israeli officials also authorized entry of all foreigners living in Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian president, harshly criti-
cized Hamas for its takeover of Gaza last week, referring to members of the group as “murderous terrorists.” He accused Hamas of trying to assassinate him when he planned a visit to Gaza a month ago, digging a tunnel under a road where his car was to pass and trying to fill it with more than 550 pounds of explosives. Hamas denied the allegation. Despite the turmoil, Abbas said peace talks with Israel should resume and appealed for international help in convening a peace conference. A U.N. agency, meanwhile, warned of general food shortages in Gaza within weeks if the main cargo crossing with Israel wasn’t reopened. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two rocket launchers in northern Gaza, in the first aerial attack on the strip since Hamas vanquished Abbas’ rival Fatah. No injuries were reported in the strike, which came in retaliation for militant rocket fire on Israel. Israeli tanks, meanwhile, rolled about 600 yards inside southern Gaza before dawn, and four militants were killed in a gunbattle, Palestinian hos-
pital officials said. Hamas and the allied Popular Resistance Committees said gunmen fired on undercover troops, prompting the army to send six tanks, two armored personnel carriers and a bulldozer to the area. The army said the entrance of the troops had been planned; was not a broad operation; and was meant to counter militant activity, including arms smuggling. In the West Bank, two Palestinian militants were killed in a predawn shootout with Israeli troops on an arrest raid on a house near Jenin, residents said. One was a local commander from the Islamic Jihad militant group and the other a local commander from a violent offshoot of Fatah. The army said armed men opened fire from the house on troops, who shot back and killed two militants. Mahmoud Zahar, the man widely believed to be leading Gaza’s new Hamas rulers, said his group was open to a cease-fire with Israel if the army halts its activities there and in the West Bank. He said Hamas was capable of
halting the frequent rocket attacks out of Gaza. “But nobody will be the protector of the Israeli border,” he told The Associated Press. In an attempt to consolidate power, the West Bank-based government installed by Abbas on Sunday annulled all decisions made by the previous Hamas government, Information Minister Riyad al-Malki said. All citizens will be required to change their travel documents to papers issued in the West Bank – in effect invalidating documents previously issued in Gaza, al-Malki said. And security personnel will be deployed in force in the West Bank to restore law and order, he added. About 200 Gazans, petrified by the chaos in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip, have been camped out for six days in a tunnel reeking of trash, urine and sweat on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing, pleading with Israeli authorities to grant them safe passage
KCET Orange is coming to a campus near you. The partnership between Cal State Fullerton and KCET is bringing about a new program, possibly late next fall, called KCET Orange. Meetings are currently in progress as to the future of this fifth PBS station that will be joining southern California televised programming. “We are interested in getting the whole campus involved with this project,” said Rick D. Pullen, dean of Communications. He and other colleges are participating in the particular details of the program, such as if an actual station will be built on campus and how students will be specifically involved in the process. Pullen said that meetings are going to be held throughout July about the upcoming addition to the CSUF curriculum. KCET Orange will be the first of its kind involving a public broadcast licensee in collaboration with a university and its programming ideas for KCET. The collaboration will provide a new demographic to the station which will include documentaries, public access shows and other cultural and educational ideas that CSUF faculty and students come up with. The involvement of all the colleges such as kinesiology, social sciences and humanities, engineering, art and more will allow for plenty of programming ideas to provide KCET. President of CSUF Milton A. Gordon praised the relationship between the university and KCET in a Titan magazine interview. He shared that the partnership has brought the university lots of coverage to southern California and that this new station is going to be a great learning resource for students and
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