Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free May Shultz of Dahl Secretary Geofge Shufa said today he had made some Progress toward arranging a meeting with a Apale Stillian but Many difficulties stand in the Way of peace in the Middle East told a flows conference in the red sea resort of Aqaba that his discussions with King Hussein yesterday and today did not involve the names of palestinians who might be Able to meet with the United states and Israel a key sticking Point in the at some there will be a its Progress in Middle East peace talk jordanian palestinian group to meet with the United he said before departing on a flight to Vienna for arms control talks with soviet foreign minister Andrei we made some headway in solv ing the there Are clearly Many difficulties Between the present situation and the kind of stability and peace i think people involved want in the Middle the United states refuses to Deal with the Plo unless it recognizes israels right to Israel consid ers the Plo a terrorist organization Israel police defuse bomb near Shuttz Peres meeting Jerusalem a israeli police defused a bomb yesterday near a hotel where state Secretary George Shultz was after three bombs exploded at bus stops in the Jerusalem police no one was reported in a Telephone Call to a news Agency in a Mando unit Loyal to Yasser Palestine liberation organization said it planted three of the four the who said he was in claimed the bus Stop bombings were carried out by units of forces a pro Arafat he told the news Agency he was Reading from a military com Munique issued in capital of North the Agency provided the associated press with his comments and requested israels army radio quoted unidentified police sources As saying the bombs were planted to underline israeli vote tests labor blocs Dallas morning news Tel Israel israelis go to the polls today in a nationwide Union election that has Little to do with matters of labor and manage but everything to do with polities and about million two thirds of the Are eligible to vote for local and National leaders of the the labor federation that rules an Empire in the name of the although nearly All israelis Bene fit from Hista Drut services from shopping cooperatives and health clinics to sports clubs and daycare centres few dispute that the federation is saddled with a often frustrating As few dispute the which controls at least on fourth of the National needs or that labor issues Are vital As Israel faces economic but those concerns have mattered Little in the election the vote is viewed As a test of strength Between the labor and liked political blocs that could affect their eight Montgold National Unity both sides Are looking for changes from the 1981 Hista Drut election re sults 63 per cent for labor and 27 per cent for liked As indications of shifts in their National labor and liked regularly accuse each other of plotting to bring Down the and one party Mak ing an especially Strong showing could be encouraged to push for Early parliamentary founded in 1920 by the jewish socialist pioneers in the Hista Drut spawned the labor which ruled Israel for the first three decades of Independence and which still controls an absolute majority in the labor that domination has made the Hista Drut a powerful labor party base of Money and manpower and kept the liked out of influential federation positions unlike the Unity in which the two parties share the outcome today is unlikely to change labors candidate for Secretary Yemen born Yisrael is a ener Getic incumbent who began As a Blu Collar worker and Rose swiftly through the to avoid party liked passed Over its most popular politicians and named Yaacov a virtual to oppose liked has emphasized its nationalist stand and its political leadership of foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir and Trade minister Ariel labor has stressed Kassars but the vote will be seen As an endorsement of labor prime minister Shimon opposition by palestinian extremists to any dialogue Between the palestinians and police spokesman Rafi Levi said he could not confirm the radio re police detained 25 suspects for questioning about the four Israel radio at the time police defused the Shultz was meeting prime minister Shimon Peres at his Home less than a Kilometre from the reporters heard sirens from the bomb disposal unit As Shultz emerged from the unscheduled breakfast discussion on the Palestin Ian Shultz left Israel for Egypt and Jordan to continue talks on potential palestinian bargaining partners acceptable to both arabs and yesterday was a regular work Day in Israel and radio reports speculated the bus Stop bombs were intended to injure and says it will not negotiate directly with an Arab delegation containing members of the but which has agreed to seek peace with Israel alongside the insists that the organization must at least approve the Plo insists they must be Plo Taher the foreign minis said before Shultz arrived that the americans had been Given the names of Plo approved Palestin ians for such a delegation and that he hoped Shultz would bring a we didst discuss a list or individual names or anything of that Shultz but i think it is Clear that direct negotiations be tween Israel and a joint jordanian palestinian delegation must include american officials have indicated that members of the Palestine National Council the body which sets Plo policy not necessarily Plo members and might be included in Shultz also talked with president Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and israeli prime minister Shimon Peres and other israeli Shultz said a major purpose of his trip was to pave the Way for Hus skins visit to the United states and planned meeting with president Ronald Reagan later this there Are a lot of grounds for being at least a Little hopeful that a solution can be found to the israeli palestinian he vowing to decided to leave Richard the state departments top Diplomat for the Middle in the Region for further talks with Israel and Murphy has held get acquainted sessions with some palestinians an american official egyptian president Honsl Mubarak greets Secretary of state George Shultz in interest rates raised in Sweden Stockholm Reuter the swedish Central Bank today raised interest rates and curbed Bank lend ing in a bid to reduce a big currency outflow and remove uncertainty caused by a countrywide civil ser the Central Bank raised the Dis count its Normal lending rate for by two percentage Points to per cent and lifted the rate Banks must pay for Short term the so called penalty by per cent to 16 per it also announced a series of Mea sures putting tight curbs on Bank the Bank announced the measures following a massive net currency outflow totalling million in the first Quarter of against a sur plus of million in the same period last Bank governor Bengt Dennis said the interest rate adjustments were necessary As the sector conflict had caused widespread uncertainty Over the swedish Economy and contributed to the accelerating the civil servants now in its second week and involving some people on strike or affected by a has shut halted most foreign Trade and closed government Philadelphia police attack Radical group moslem militiamen take cover in Street along demarcation line dividing Jumblatt rules out any Chance of Accord with Christian militia Beirut a Christian and moslem militias traded tank and rocket fire across Beirut Demarca Tion line killing three civil wounding 17 people and setting the Justice police the fighting came a Day after druse warlord Walid Jumblatt ruled out any Chance of a settlement with Elie newly elected presi Dent of Lebanon largest Christian thunderous hellfire blasts kept most of the whole City and hundreds of families in neighbor hoods close to the five Kilometre Iong line Between mainly Christian East Beirut and the predominantly moslem West Side spent the night huddled in among the 17 injured were 15 civilians and two lebanese army they suffered shrapnel wounds from a mortar Shell that struck the mid City military Hospi police police said the fire on the fourth floor at the five Storey Justice min which took eight hours to sex destroyed Legal records and the ministry is on the Christian Edge of the demarcation this is the greatest disaster in Lebanon since the eruption of the civil said Amin head of the supreme judicial the fire gutted All records and files of cases under the rights of the citizens Are now by police the new casualties raised the Overall toll to 90 killed and 476 injured since the current surge of sectarian fighting erupted in the lebanese capital on april the fighting tapered off to sporadic sniping at but All Cross Ings Between cites moslem and Christian sectors remained the Christia controlled voice of Lebanon radio station Jumblatt militiamen pounded East Beirut with soviet supplied Multi barrelled rocket launchers from West Beirut Roche and Saviet Aijan Zir but a communique from jump Latts progressive socialist party accused Christian units of the army 8th brigade of shooting first from tanks positioned on the Christian Side of the so called Green Jumblatt called whom Israel says led the massacre of palestinians in Beirut refugee Camps in september a crime and terrorism there wont be any agreement or reconciliation with the lebanese forces current or former leaders to end Lebanon 10year civil Jumblatt told a news he said a Compromise could be negotiated under Syrias sponsorship with president Amin Gemayel As the representative of the christians and this might be Gemayel last was elected president of the lebanese forces last thurs Day to take Over from pro israeli Samir who seized control of the militia in a March 12 revolt against Gemayel pro syrian Geagea was dumped under pressure from Syria to get rid of him or face syrian Jumblatt rejection of followed denunciations in syrian now the main Power broker in lebanese has not yet made any official Jumblatt declared we Are for a for a political put he said he doubted if Gera Ayel can keep Bis promises of political reforms to give moslem a greater share of Power in Philadelphia a the police siege of the Radical group moves Headquarters erupted in gunfire after police attacked the fortified Row House with water cannons and Gas it was not immediately known whether police or occupants were Hurt in the which began about 5 cd when police re leased two High pressure water streams from deluge cannons against the about 150 helmeted officers sur rounded the barricaded West Phila Delphia building taunted by occupants using a bullhorn to de Mand the release of nine comrades imprisoned in a bloody shootout with authorities seven years All you cops you ought come Down and get this taunted a member of the group move Early using a Public address system attached to the which has a rooftop Bunker Complete with Peep holes and gun youre going to see something youve never seen the speaker blared into the the last showdown Between Between police and move ended in a shootout that killed one policeman and wounded several others in 1978 at the groups former Headquarters about two Miles who evacuated 200 to 300 families overnight from a four lock area around the were preparing to serve an eviction notice on the fortified said a report in today editions of the Philadelphia tensions in the neighbourhood have increased in the last fuelled by neighbor complaints of stench and filth emanating from the where police believe 10 Chil Dren and five adults move follows a philosophy espoused by its Vincent who later took the name John All group members use the surname Leaphart and Confounder Donald Glassey said in 1972 that society was degenerating because of Modem move members ate Only natural often and eschewed Contact with any by they kept scores of dogs and welcomed rats into their Home As part of police had asked the areas Resi dents to evacuate by 10 last but several officers went Doort door Early today asking stragglers to leave police say 200 to 300 families were evacuate hoping to avoid violence yester two members of the crisis intervention a nonprofit group that tries to defuse tense Situ served As mediators in negotiations Between police and move network director Bennie swans said the move members have re fused to leave the House until authorities free nine members imprisoned for the 1978 if the members Are not then there prepared to stay there and meet whatever consequences swans our position is that its a lose lose situation the police department Doest the City of Philadelphia Doest they dont and much More the children that Are in the House dont elections Tough test for Praxi Rome a italians Are voting in Large numbers in nationwide local elections considered a crucial test for socialist Premier Bettino praxis five party coalition the main opposition was coming from the who hoped to gain the most votes of any single the Interior ministry said yester Day in a communique that As of 7 12 hours after the polls per cent of the million eligible voters had cast that compared with 39 per cent during the same time Span in 1980 elections for provincial and Raunisi pal the voting continues for half Day with official results expected italian Law stipulates that voting is but there is no direct penalty for failing to do in the 1984 european parliament a record per cent of the eligible voters either did not vote or cast spoiled protest the Interior ministry said it deployed More than paramilitary forces and auxiliary officers to patrol the voting no serious incidents were while the vote has no direct effect on it was seen As a key test for praxis coalition of his own Christian so Cial republicans and Praxi has said his government could not stand a defeat presumably meaning a serious drop in the 56 per cent of the vote the five parties garnered in his coalition has been in office since August 1983 the third longest tenure of Italy 44 postwar polish Farmers seek revival of banned Rural Solidarity Union Warsaw a hundreds of Farmers from across Poland lauded Calls yesterday for revival of their outlawed Rural Solidarity Union during a roman Catholic mass on the fourth anniversary of the unions More than people attended the outdoor mass at Warsaw Sta Woislaw Kostka the private Farmers Sang 4 and flashed Victory the farm ers Union claimed More than two million members before it was banned in our Homeland demands full de sovereignty and Independence in every aspect of including the right to have free Independent Trade said Boguslaw Bijak of whose Sermon was interrupted Sev eral times by 4 this country hates Vic chairman of the Farmers directives and especially foreign was applauded As be we he demand the restoration of Rural the Farmers arrived by bus from As far away As the Northwest Ince of Szczecin to attend the mass Church officials said police stopped several buses with Farmers tons outside but they could not provide precise Gabriel the former trying banners and waving Victory marched around the Church before laying wreaths at the grave of Jersy the Darity priest slain last october by three secret police the restoration of we also Call for a halt to repress he adding an Appeal for the release of Solidarity Gnu vests Bogdan Adam nist party newspaper Lidu Law Seweryn Jaworski accused the mass and who Are of exploiting the cd lurch where after the the car served for their ant state i the official Rural Solidarity was registered by a Warsaw court on May to represent the country private Farmers who till Over 75 per cent of country the like its Industrial Repart was suppressed after the december impost Tion of martial Law and outlawed the next a ;