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The rest of the side is made up mainly of Moslem Arabs.
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The club, founded in 1961, has a loyal following in Taibe, an Arab town of 28,000 in the heart of Israel.
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But away from their home ground, they face unfriendly crowds who taunt the players with racist abuse.
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" The very first thing we thought about after we knew we would be promoted was the game against Betar Jerusalem, " said Taibe supporter Karem Haj Yihye.
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Two weeks ago Taibe, coached by Pole Wojtek Lazarek, met Betar, a club closely associated with the right-wing Likud party, for the first time in a Cup match in Jerusalem.
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Chants from the crowd of " Death to the Arabs ", and bottle-throwing during the game marred the match which ended in a goalless draw.
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One Taibe supporter required hospital treatment for cuts and bruises after a stone struck his head as he was driving from the stadium.
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" We're used to hearing the taunts of " Death to the Arabs', " said Sameh Haj Yihye, a Taibe resident who studies at Jerusalem's Hebrew University . "
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But we know that these are only words, nobody has died from hearing them and it only makes us support our team more vehemently . "
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The dusty town of Taibe lacks the amenities of Jewish communities and many Israeli Arabs have long complained of state discrimination.
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" There are no parks or empty areas of land around here, so when we want to play a friendly game of soccer we all load up in the car and travel to Tel Aviv, " 60 km (36 miles) away, Sameh Haj Yihye said.
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The town's ramshackle 2,500-seat ground is accessible only by two dirt tracks.
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" We plan to build a 10,000-seat stadium, but it may well be situated elsewhere, " said club chairman Abdul Rahman Haj Yihye . "
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We will discuss this with the mayor and hopefully a new or refurbished ground will be completed by the start of the new year . "
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In the meantime, Taibe will play all their heavily policed home matches at the Jewish coastal town of Netanya.
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" We are Israelis, there is no question about that, " said Karem Haj Yihye, a hotel waiter.
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" We don't have any connection with the Palestinians, they live over there, " he said, pointing to the West Bank seven km (four miles) to the east.
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" We don't feel our club represents Palestinian Arabs, " said club chairman Abdul Rahman . "
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We are trying to do all we can to run a professional outfit, we are pleased at any support we get, but do not go out looking to represent the whole Arab world . "
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Soccer - Kennedy and Phelan both out of Irish squad.
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DUBLIN 1996-08-23
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Two players have withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad for the 1998 World Cup qualifying match against Liechenstein on August 31, the Football Association of Ireland said in a statement on Friday.
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The F.A.I. statement said that Liverpool striker Mark Kennedy and Chelsea defender Terry Phelan were both receiving treatment for injuries and would not be travelling to Liechenstein for the game.
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No replacements had been named.
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-- Damien Lynch, Dublin Newsroom +353 1 6603377
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Soccer - Manchester United face Juventus in Europe.
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GENEVA 1996-08-23
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European champions Juventus will face English league and cup double winners Manchester United in this season's European Champions' League.
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The draw made on Friday pitted Juventus, who beat Dutch champions Ajax Amsterdam 4-2 on penalties in last year's final, against Alex Ferguson's European hopefuls in group C.
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The other two teams in the group are last season's Cup Winners' Cup runners-up Rapid Vienna and Fenerbahce of Turkey.
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Juventus meet United in Turin on September 11, with the return match at Old Trafford on November 20.
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United have dominated the premier league in the 1990s, winning three English championships in four years, but have consistently failed in Europe, crashing out of the European Cup to Galatasaray of Turkey and Spain's Barcelona at their last two attempts.
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They have not lifted a European Trophy since 1991 when they beat Barcelona in the Cup Winners' Cup final, and their one and only European Cup triumph was way back in 1968, when they beat Benfica of Portugal 4-1 at Wembley.
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Juventus have won the European Cup twice.
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Before conquering Ajax last year they beat United's big English rivals Liverpool in the ill-fated 1985 final in the Heysel stadium in Brussels.
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Nigeria police kill six robbery suspects.
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LAGOS 1996-08-23
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Nigerian police shot dead six robbery suspects as they tried to escape from custody in the northern city of Sokoto, the national news agency reported on Friday.
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted police spokesman Umar Shelling as saying the six were killed on Wednesday.
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They had been arrested last week for stealing 800,000 naira ($10,000) from a sheep merchant.
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Rwandan group says expulsion could be imminent.
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NAIROBI 1996-08-23
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Repatriation of 1.1 million Rwandan Hutu refugees announced by Zaire and Rwanda on Thursday could start within the next few days, an exiled Rwandan Hutu lobby group said on Friday.
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Innocent Butare, executive secretary of the Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda (RDR) which says it has the support of Rwanda's exiled Hutus, appealed to the international community to deter the two countries from going ahead with what it termed a " forced and inhuman action ".
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Orthodox church blown up in southern Croatia.
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ZAGREB 1996-08-23
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Saboteurs blew up a Serb orthodox church in southern Croatia on Friday with a blast which also damaged four nearby homes, the state news agency Hina reported.
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HINA said the church in the small village of Karin Gornji, 30 km (19 miles) north of Zadar, was destroyed by the morning attack.
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It did not report any casualties.
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Zadar police said in a statement they had launched an investigation and were doing their best to find the perpetrators.
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HINA said it was the first time an orthodox church had been blown up in the Zadar hinterland, where a large number of Serbs lived before the 1991 war over Croatia's independence from the Yugoslav federation.
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The area was part of the self-styled state of Krajina proclaimed by minority Serbs in 1991 and recaptured by the Croatian army last year.
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Up to 200,000 Serbs fled to Bosnia and Yugoslavia, leaving Krajina vacant and depopulated.
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Hungary's gross foreign debt rises in June.
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BUDAPEST 1996-08-23
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Hungary's gross foreign debt rose to $27.53 billion in June from $27.25 billion in May, the
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National Bank of Hungary (NBH) said on Friday.
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FIGURES IN $MILLION June 1996 May 1996
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Gross foreign debt 27,535.5 27,246.5
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International reserves and
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other foreign assets 13,256.5 12,855.7
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Net foreign debt 14,278.9 14,390.7
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Net foreign debt of the
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government and NBH 9,510.9 10,056.4
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-- Budapest newsroom (36 1) 266 2410
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Germany, Poland tighten cooperation against crime.
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WARSAW 1996-08-23
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Germany and Poland agreed on Friday to tighten cooperation between their intelligence services in fighting international organised crime, PAP news agency reported.
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Interior Minister Zbigniew Siemiatkowski and Bernd Schmidbauer, German intelligence co-ordinator in Helmut Kohl's chancellery, sealed the closer links during talks in Warsaw.
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Ministry spokesman Ryszard Hincza told the Polish agency the services would work together against mafia-style groups, drug smuggling and illegal trade in arms and radioactive materials.
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Russians, Chechens say observing Grozny ceasefire.
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GROZNY, Russia 1996-08-23
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Rebel fighters and Russian soldiers said a ceasefire effective at noon (0800 GMT) on Friday was being generally observed, although scattered gunfire echoed through the Chechen capital Grozny.
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The Russian army said earlier it was preparing to withdraw from the rebel-dominated southern mountains of the region as part of the peace deal reached with separatists on Thursday.
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" There has been some shooting from their side but it has been relatively quiet, " said fighter Aslan Shabazov, a bearded man wearing a white t-shirt and camoflage trousers.
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Soon after he spoke another burst of gunfire rocked the courtyard where the rebels had set up their base and a captured Russian T-72 tank roared out to investigate.
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The separatists, who swept into Grozny on August 6, still control large areas of the centre of town, and Russian soldiers are based at checkpoints on the approach roads.
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" The ceasefire is being observed, " said woman soldier Svetlana Goncharova, 35, short dark hair poking out from under a peaked camouflage cap.
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A few helicopters flew overhead, firing off flares, but there was no shooting from the air.
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The truce, the latest of several, was agreed in talks on Thursday between Russian peacemaker Alexander Lebed and rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov.
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The two also agreed to set up joint patrols in Grozny, but Goncharova said she was sceptical about whether this could work.
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" We have to try it, but I doubt if this is possible with the separatists, " she said.
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WEATHER - Conditions at CIS airports - August 23.
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MOSCOW 1996-08-23
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No closures of airports in the Commonwealth of Independent States are expected on August 24 and August 25, the Russian Weather Service said on Friday.
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-- Moscow Newsroom +7095 941 8520
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Granic arrives to sign Croatia-Yugoslavia treaty.
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BELGRADE 1996-08-23
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Yugoslavia and Croatia were poised on Friday to sign a landmark normalisation treaty ending five years of tensions and paving way for stabilisation in the Balkans.
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Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic landed at Belgrade airport aboard a Croatian government jet on Friday morning for talks with his Yugoslav counterparts and a signing ceremony expected around noon (1000 GMT).
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On Thursday the Yugoslav government endorsed the text of the agreement on normalising relations between the two countries, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said.
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" The government assessed the agreement as a crucial step to resolving the Yugoslav crisis, ensuring the restoration of peace in former Yugoslavia, " it said.
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Last-minute talks this week on the legal fine print finally cleared the way for a treaty based on mutual recognition within internationally recognised borders and the establishment of diplomatic relations, diplomats said.
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The pact ends five years of hostility after Croatia's secession from federal Yugoslavia.
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Western powers regard diplomatic normalisation between Croatia and Serbia, twin pillars of the old multinational federal Yugoslavia, as a crucial step towards a lasting peace in the Balkans.
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Ecuador president to lunch with ethnic Indians.
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QUITO, Ecuador 1996-08-23
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Ecuador's President Abdala Bucaram has announced he will hold regular lunches in his presidential palace for members of the country's different ethnic groups as of next week.
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" It was about time for the Indians, the blacks and the mixed-bloods to begin eating in the palace with their president because this is not a palace exclusively for the potentates and ambassadors and protocol, " Bucaram said late on Thursday.
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" In these weekly lunches we are going to get to know the problems of the Indian, mixed-race, black and peasant sectors, " he said.
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