ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates: An Arab League official accused the United States Saturday of becoming a relay station for Israeli demands and “tantrums” rather than using its fledgling dialogue with the PLO to develop its own Middle East policy.

BOSTON: A fire ripped through a _ apartment house Saturday, killing, four people and forcing a Woman to jump to safety from the third floor, authorities said. The early morning fire broke out in the wood frame building in the city’s Dorchester section, killing a 31yearold man, a 56yearold woman and her two children, aged 8 and 11.

HOLOLULU: An 800foot tanker that ran aground on a coral reef off the southwest coast of Oahu, spilling 117,000 gallons of oil along 2 miles of isolated shoreline, was freed Friday night, authorities said.

NEW YORK: A man was charged Saturday for killing a plain clothes policeman in a shootout that erupted as the officer and his partner questioned several men on a crack in fested Brooklyn street, authorities said. A second man was arrested on assault and gun charges, said Sgt. Maurice Howard, a police spokesman.

NEW YORK: The White House next week will notify Congress that it is going ahead with a $1.2 billion venture to make advanced F16 fighters with Japan, but will recommend that transfer of U.S. aircraft technology to Japan be limited, the New York Times reported Saturday.

NEW YORK: A teenager who allegedly mugged a Hasidic woman Friday was beaten by mob of Hasidic men, police said, and hundreds of outraged Jews harangued police officers as several Hasidic suspects were marched to a Brooklyn police station on the Jewish sabbath.

TOKYO: Prosecutors indicted four businessmen Saturday on bribery charges in connection with an insider stock market scandal that threatens to topple the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

HONG KONG: Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Nan said Saturday that negotiations for the return of the British colony to China in 1997 were proceeding smoothly, with few difficulties anticipated.

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