Two Arabs Die in Continuing Violence

JERUSALEM--An Arab was electrocuted yesterday when Israeli soldiers forced him to climb a utility pole to remove a Palestinian flag in the West Bank in one of three deaths in the occupied territories, the army said.

It reported another Arab was electrocuted while trying to attach a Palestinian flag to a power line in Tulkarem, also in the West Bank. Arab reporters said the man was shot by Israeli soldiers.

U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, arriving on a new Mideast peace shuttle, told Israel to act on his plan for negotiations for Palestinian self-rule.

Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced a new army policy to go on the offensive and teach rioting Arabs a lesson.

Yesterday's deaths brought to 136 the number of Arabs who have died in four months of protests against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to United Nations figures. One Israeli soldier has been killed.

The months of rioting cast a pall on Christian celebrations of Easter.

About 1000 worshippers, half of last year's number, attended services in the 12th century Church of the Holy. Sepulcher, marking the site where Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead after being crucified.

Shultz, said the Palestinians must be included in peace talks and negotiations must be based on a 1967 U.N. resolution that calls on Israel to give up territory in exchange for Arab recognition.

"For everything there is a season...a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace," Shultz said. "This is the time and the season to move decisively towards peace."

His remarks appeared aimed primarily at Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who told reporters during a visit to a West Bank settlement yesterday that Shultz had yet to convince him of the neeed for an international peace conference.

The American peace proposal calls for an international conference on the Middle East. Under the proposal Israel would give land to the Palestinians in exchange for peace.

Shultz's third Middle East shuttle since October began after a sharp escalation of bloodshed in the past week in which 20 Arabs were killed and scores more shot by Israeli soliders.

Visiting the site in Gaza City where soldiers shot three Arabs to death on Saturday, Rabin explained a new tactic the army was using to take the initiative away from the Arab demonstrators.

"In the majority of the incidents," Rabin said about the recent bloodshed, "the confrontations were the result of our initiative, part of an effort to assure a calming of the situation, to suppress the violence."

Army spokesmen said soldiers would not longer ignore, as they had in the past, demonstrations in remote villages or other locations that did not interfere with traffic or endanger lives.

Officials at Ramallah Hospital said a 40-year-old Ali Diab, Abu Ali died yesterday of a neck wound suffered during Land Day protests March 30 in the West Bank village Yatta.

The army said Khalil Jaber Hamzway, 18, was electrocuted when soldiers ordered him to climb a utility pole and remove a flag in the Askar refugee camp near Nablus.

The army also said a 20-year-old Arab man was electrocuted while trying to attach an outlawed Palestinian flag to a power line in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Arab journalists said soldiers shot the youth.