SHARON'S GOVT. SHOWS FISSURES AMID RISING VIOLENCE

JERUSALEM [MENL] -- The government of Prime Minister Sharon is showing signsof fissure amid rising Israeli casualties from the war with thePalestinians. The cracks within the ruling coalition come as another Israeli has beenkilled in the West Bank. The 40-year-old man was killed on Wednesday eveningin a Palestinian ambush near the West Bank city of Tulkarm, the fourthIsraeli killed this week in Palestinian attacks.