Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba J i l 14 May i i d ill i 1 in talk Jordan state Secretary George Shulti co netted last night with King Hussein on a Royal yacht Ift the red sea but to breakthrough was achieved Ift of ranging Ara israeli peace a senior official said the speaking on condition he not be added we didst come Here expecting a 1 dont think theres any big event shaping up if the final hours of the Secretary three Day Middle East Shultz flew to Aqaba from where he conferred for Shore than two hours with egyptian president Mosni he went to Cairo after meetings in Jerusalem with prime minister Shimon Peres acid other israeli Hussein acid Shultz were to meet again today and the Secretary then flies to where he will Confer with soviet officials on the arms reduction Shultz said earlier yesterday that it is a hard problem to find pales Tinian peace negotiators acceptable to both Israel and the Palestine liberation he said a solution is if israeli police defuse bomb near Shultz 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 com Mando unit Loyal to Yasser Palestine liberation organization said it planted three of the four i the 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 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 politics 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 snowing 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 Stew 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 peace talks Ever Are to get under Way Between Israel and a joint Jor Dania palestinian Shults two hour meeting with Hussein apparently failed to and Vance efforts to reach agreement on the palestinian youre dealing with very serious men looking hard at highly Complex the official he said Shultz has decided to have Richard the state departments top Diplomat for the Middle remain in the Region for further talks with Israel and summing up the frustrations Shultz has faced on his Middle East the official theres no breakthrough in sight or reporters travelling with Shultz asked him if there Are palestinians acceptable to both Israel and the Plo and he i dont know the answer to that that one of the things i dont its a hard he added that the problem is to find people who Are truly recognized As people who represent the palestinians and who also have a Back ground that would be acceptable in the negotiating in officials were divided on whether members of the Palestine National which sets policy for the might opponents cited the councils role in adopting the covenant that Calls for the extinction of Peres appeared to soften israels line when he told his Cabinet that Israel would Rule out negotiations Only with palestinians who Are dedicated to the destruction of Israel is prepared to conduct direct negotiations with a joint Jor Dania palestinian delegation which will not include persons belonging to an organization that is committed to egyptian president Hosni Mubarak greets Secretary of state George Shultz in Cairo United states already had a list of prospective palestinian negotiators approved by the id rather not speculate about categories or Shultz government and the Plo said the palestinian which Calls for israels Cabi net Secretary Yossi Beilin quoted Peres As we will not Deal with those who Are committed to destroying Isra Beilin told reporters in Jerusa he said the government believes there Are palestinian leaders in the Israel occupied West Bank and Gaza and maybe elsewhere who Are not committed to the palestinian covenant and Are eager to Partick in peace in where Yasser Arafat a photo held three Days of talks with chinese the Plo chairman said he and Hussein had agreed that any delegation of any purpose or any Mission has to be from the Jordan in the course of his Middle East Shultz has stressed the need for direct Ara israeli but he told reporters the Rea Gan administration would consider holding such meetings if they had the approval of our friends and contributed to the Start of peace Shultz refused to say whether the Jordans foreign Taher confirmed to the associated press yesterday previous reports that the Plo had approved the names of Palestine National Council members to take part in talks and that Jordan had Given those to the United states during a Mideast visit last month by Richard an assistant Secretary of senator probes Cia operations moslem militiamen take cover in Street along demarcation line dividing Jumblatt rules out Accord with Christian terrorist Beirut a druse moslem Leader Walid Jumblatt ruled out yesterday any Chance of a Settle ment with armed Christian he made his statement on the 15th Day of shelling and sectarian Skir mishes Between militias in the Leb anese police said one civilian was killed and 11 people were wounded in night fighting Between irregulars along the five Kilometre demarcation line that splits Christian East Beirut from the capitals mostly moslem Western the toll stands at 87 killed and 459 wounded since fighting broke out april 28 along the so called Green line dividing militiamen battled with automatic weapons and rocket propelled Gre mortar rounds hit residential areas on both sides of the in the Aley mountains overlooking Christian lebanese army troops were in action against jump Latts druse now Allied with other moslem there were no reports of casual in the sporadic Jumblatt met reporters at his Mountain residence in some 30 Kilometres Southeast of he said Elie elected president of the Christian Leba Nese forces militia last thursday in an apparent Christian bid at is a Man whose speciality is crime and who is backed by stressed there wont be any agree ment or reconciliation to end Lebanon 10yearlong civil his rejection of the Christian move was the first by a rival lebanese militia Leader and followed denunciations of in syrian now the main Power broker in lebanese has not yet made any official the lebanese forces intelligence was elected presi Dent of the movements 10man executive As the pro israeli Samir was shunted Geagea led a March 12 rebellion against Christian president Amin Gemayel Alliance with Syria that badly undercut Gemayel author blamed for triggering the latest bout of sectarian was dumped under pressure from Syria to get rid of him or face syrian Jumblatt declared we Are for a for a political but he said he doubts whether Gemayel can keep his promises of political reforms to give moslem a greater share of Power in christians have dominated Lebanon government under a 1943 Jumblatt said Pope John Paul who recently appealed for an end to Lebanon civil is biased in favor of the he said he would not return icons taken from a monastery in South Lebanon until the roman Catholic pontiff shows sympathy for mos Jumblatt militiamen seized the icons from the ancient Deir Mok Halles monastery after they drove Christian fighters from a coastal Belt North and East of the Southern port City of Sidon in attacks starting april the icons collection Are with Jumblatt i will Only give them Back to the Vatican when the pontiff takes a unbiased position on the lebanese the Washington Post Washington senator Patrick Leahy Vic chairman of the Senate select intelligence com said yesterday he has begun an Independent inquiry into a half dozen Cia including a counter terrorism program in the Middle East that was cancelled after an unauthorized car bomb blast killed More than 80 in Leahy said he wants to know More about several sensitive operations and seeks More details on others about which he feels the committee want fully Leahy said he did not know of the counter terrorism plan in but when asked about it last he made inquiries and found out about it on my he refused to give further by Law and by agreement with the Reagan the chair men and vice chairmen of the sen ate and House intelligence commit tees Are to be informed of All Covert Cia an administration source insisted the committees had been fully both orally and in of All Covert or otherwise sensitive the Washington quoting reported yesterday that president Reagan approved the plan late last year directing the Central intelligence Agency to train foreign teams to make preemptive strikes against the plan was rescinded after members of the unit hired others to set without Cia a car bomb that killed More than 80 people on March the sources the a suspected terrorist escaped in things have fallen Between the Leahy i do not want my Side to get caught on a Nicara Guan mining Type a Cia operation to Plant mines in harbours in Nicaragua caused Contro Versy last year because several members of the intelligence Over sight committees claimed Cia director William Casey had not told them enough about the opera Leahy said he feels Casey and other Agency officials Are willing to answer the committees questions about any but he said Noth ing is volunteered if the questions Are not framed exactly Leahy said he told other commit tee democrats last week that the inquiry is needed because when he became Vic chairman in he found he did not know sufficient details of some of the Cias most secret and potentially controversial he refused to identify the other Leahy said he told the democrats he is committing his staff to the inquiry and might ask them also to provide staff Leahy said he Lias Good relations with the Senate intelligence commit tee David Durenberger but feels it is Neces sary to proceed with his own another committee source that Leahy and Duren Berger have Basic disagreements about the use of staff resources and the direction of the Durenberger could not be reached for comment but he said in a recent interview he Hopes the committee will not have to spend much of its time dealing with controversial Cia he said he wants to shift the oversight role from putting out fire to fire pre Durenberger said in the about 90 per cent of the committees time has been spent on intelligence controversies and that he Hopes to reduce that administration spokesmen continued to refuse comment on the Post Secretary of state George in Israel said of the Story i Haven seen the washing ton Post i do have a very Strong View about As is i also have the View that at this actions will speak a lot louder than so i dont have anything to say about who has made Strong pub Lic statements about taking action against said later he has for the time not to comment on the general subject of while Shultz was in Jeru several terrorist bombs exploded there and one was Robert Deputy White House press told United press we never discuss intelligence but he added that the Post Story contained a Jot of sources have said Reagan ordered that Only the chairmen and vice chairmen of the intelligence committees be notified of several Covert operations undertaken last including the Antiterrorist training program in there is some question whether All the details filtered Down when Duren Berger and Leahy assumed Leader ship of the Senate committee in polish banners seek revival of banned Rural Solidarity Union Warsaw a hundreds of Farmers from across Poland applauded Calls yesterday for revival of their outlawed Rural Solidarity Union during a roman Catholic mass on the fourth anniversary of the unions than people attended the outdoor mass at Warsaw Staj Slaw Kostka the private Farmers 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 this country hates directives and especially foreign he the Farmers arrived by bus from As far away As the Northwest prov Ince of Szczecin to attend the Church officials said police stopped several buses with Farmers delegations outside but they could not provide precise Gabriel the former Vic chairman of the Farmers was applauded As he we demand the restoration of Rural we also Call for a halt to repress he adding an Appeal for the release of Solidarity activists Bogdan Adam Wiadyslaw Seweryn Jaworski and others who Are after the the carrying banners and waving Victory marched around the Church before laying wreaths at the grave of Jerzy the Prosoli Darity priest slain last october by three secret police on the official communist party newspaper Tribuna Ludu accused the organizers of the mass of exploiting the Church where Popieluszko served for their ant state Rural Solidarity was registered by a Warsaw court on May to represent the country private Farmers who till Over 75 per cent of the country the like its Industrial counterpart was suppressed after the december 1981 imposition of martial Law and outlawed the next i ;