ISRAEL ORDERS REMOVAL OF 6 OUTPOSTS.(MAIN)

Byline: JILL LAWLESS Associated Press

JERUSALEM -- Israel ordered police and soldiers to remove six unauthorized Jewish outposts in the West Bank and evict their occupants as a step toward complying with a U.S.-backed peace plan, a senior official said Saturday.

In the West Bank town of Ramallah, meanwhile, Palestinian security officials detained at gunpoint a group of militants who refused a request to leave Yasir Arafat's compound -- an apparent attempt to ease U.S. and Israeli pressure on the Palestinian leader. Arafat has been stuck in the compound for more than a year and a half.

The militants' refusal to leave as a condition for allowing Arafat to travel illustrated the tough task Palestinian authorities …