Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free january Israel for Arab arrest Jerusalem Reuter palestinians in Israel occupied Arab territories assailed Israel yesterday for arresting nationalist Leader Fai Sal calling it a slap in the face of this shows the israeli govern ment and its policies Are against peace and against any measure that would take the area from violence into reality and said journalist and prominent Roplo nationalist Radwan Abu palestinian leaders from the West Bank of the Jordan River called a news conference in Arab East Jeru Salem at which they described As baseless and fabricated allegations Husseini helped finance activists in the 25monthold Arab in another development yester israeli soldiers arrested More than 100 palestinians in a Security sweep of the Hebron area of the West military sources universally regarded As the main Leader of million palestinians in the occupied was arrested Friday for questioning about court documents alleging he paid uprising activists the equivalent of can to buy he denied the saying he paid the Money for plumbing work in his East Jerusalem police also presented secret Evi Dence said to show Husseini had illegal contacts with hostile organizations and helped to organize the palestinian Hussein is arrest was criticized by israeli peace activists and the United which regards Husseini As a key figure in any future israeli palestinian peace wrong signals state department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said Friday the move sends precisely the wrong signal to the palestinians at a time of intense efforts to establish a Dia Logue Between them and the israe palestinians said Hussein is arrest was aimed at preventing Husseini and other palestinians from wooing israeli Public opinion to support negotiations with the Palestine libera Tion Husseini has repeatedly advocated a peace dialogue to persuade All sectors of israeli society of the need for a palestinian state alongside the jewish this arrest is a message from the israeli government that they will not allow him to approach the israeli said Ghassan a communist academic from the West Bank City of Mahmoud regarded As a Leader of the islamic resistance movement Hamas in the Gaza the main Plo rival in the occupied also condemned the a palestinian and israeli activists said they will picket the jail in jewish West Jerusalem where Hus Seini has been ordered held until Security sources said Hussein is arrest was apparently a political move aimed at appeasing the israeli righting and jewish settlers rather than at prosecuting he has been detained without trial for 18 months out of the last three clash ends ceasefire times news service Beirut syrian troops clashed yesterday with lebanese army units Loyal to the Christian Michel in the first such encounter since an Ara brokered cease fire last september ended six months of fighting Between the two the which witnesses said involved tanks and artillery and lasted nearly an occurred at mad fun on the coastal Highway some 48 Kilometres North of the police said a number of people were but could not confirm reports by local radio stations that two syrian soldiers were syrian and lebanese army positions at mad fun Are Only about 100 metres the confrontation line separates Syria controlled Northern Lebanon from the 800squarekilometre Christian which extends southward to East Beirut and East Ward to the Kes Rouan Aoun has committed his forces to a War of liberation to evict the syrian troops who control two thirds of lebanese the artillery exchanges came As Aoun urged his supporters to observe what he called a Day of Solidarity with the North in order to rid it of syrian witnesses said the violence was sparked when lebanese soldiers stopped cars at their Roadblock and began to distribute portraits of Aoun and leaflets attacking the syrian presence in a photo Royal relaxation the Duchess of York takes her Little for a Toboggan ride in the wife of Prince Andrew is expecting a second military rulers declare Haiti in state of siege massacre details released salvadoran soldiers deny allege torture by Katherine Ellison Knight Ridder newspapers san Salvador by the Light of an Early morning Tomas Zapate saw the Mother and Daugh Ter reclining on the bed in their Small he heard gunshots out then a voice now then he shot the two More times than he Angel Perez watched a tall Man in White a priest fall to the shot by a stepping Over the Perez Felt the mans hands on his he jumped Back and shot him four the chilling testimony by Perez and Zapate was released Friday by a salvadoran judge who charged the two men and seven alleged accomplices with the 16 murder of six Jesuit their caretaker and her eight of the including a colonel and a Are under military detention without a ninth is a judge Ricardo Zamora of the 4th penal court has up to 120 Days to continue investigating the Case and can legally reverse his decision Dur ing that the which prompted some in the Congress to Call for a reappraisal of Aid to Al is an historic first because salvadoran president Alfredo Cristiani has for the first time publicly declared Mili tary men responsible for said Francisco he is the new Rector of the Jose Simeon Canas University of Central where the victims lived and to not one military officer has been convicted in this country for a human rights yet one of those who first identified the bodies of his col insisted the intellectual authors of the crime remain at Large and called on Cristiani to continue with the the defendants lawyers on Friday protested what they called Barbaric pressures to convict their clients on what they said was insufficient the men now deny that they Ever and they say they were psychologically said one of the Jose Oscar Cabal what makes this Case so hard is that the whole world is watch a Diplomat Well informed on the investigation agreed there could be problems with the extrajudicial testimony Given last week to material evidence yet there was also significant material evidence linking the military men to the he among that he were the results of ballistics tests and a writ ing Sample linking one of the men with a sign left at the scene of the crime falsely blaming the murders on leftist both the Federal Bureau of investigation and the Scotland Yard have sent advisers to help in the the Case tests both Cristianit de termination and control of the As Well As the salvadoran Justice which the United states is underwriting with million this according to a embassy new evidence in the Case has lessened the Reliance on Lucia bar Rera de the first witness to come Barrera was flown to the United states in protective Cus Tody last november immediately after declaring that she had seen armed men in camouflage uniforms during the shooting of the she remains outside the and analysts Here say she May not have to appear in the new testimony made Public Friday leaves Many questions in while the highest ranking Guillermo Alfredo Benavides is denying any yet the if provide insights into How the officers May have justified the crimes to themselves at the Porta Prince a Haiti military government declared a state of siege last night after the slaying of an army and police were reported to have beaten and arrested several opposition the government led by Prosper Avril said the 30day decree is needed to protect democratic accomplishments against terror but opposition leaders said it is to silence dissent be fore a promised election in octo government television said under the state of four articles of the Constitution were including one which forbids the Deporta Tion of haitian the government said it also reestablished an entry visa requirement for haitians returning from abroad to prevent the infiltration of terrorist the abolished shortly after dictator Jeanclaude Duvalier was ousted in often was used to screen haitians returning an earlier also read on the said the government is Tak ing All Steps to prevent destabilizing manoeuvres liable to Compro Mise the democratic process under lots of enemies one opposition Jean Claude said in puerto Rico he expects All opposition leaders rounded up yesterday will certainly get put on a plane and Deport Avril will go to bed tonight with lots of Hes turning against everyone at Bajeux privately owned radio Antilles said police arrested rightist Leader Hubert de Ronceray and Louis a Well known civic Leader who founded the haitian red Cross and is coauthor of the 1987 roys Jeanclaude confirmed the eight plainclothes gunmen also arrested socialist Leader Serge Gilles and three members of his progressive National revolutionary party at Gilles witnesses Gilles was thrown to the ground and stomped in front of his two Small while the others were beaten in the Groin with Rifle witnesses a witness who asked not to be identified quoted one of the Plain clothes men saying you Are the communists responsible for murder ing the colonel and for the situation in the status of those arrested was unknown late last the police sweep came after Andre his wife and a ser vant were shot dead while Riding Home Friday night in the Portal Prince suburb of the killings occurred 100 metres trom de Ronceray de Ronceray said soldiers firing automatic weapons terrorized his family after Neptune slaying and searched his Home without a War rant we saw it said Sylvio a leading opponent of after its aprils dictatorial regime has gone into action and clamped Down on the democratic Emmanuel duty offi cer at the National said Neptune body was found in the while the bodies of the two women were found in Neptune abandoned car he said the motive for the killing was in radio Antilles said police also arrested Sylvain Leader of the Small Radical Jeanjacques Des Salines group and Jesner coordinator of the conservative movement to establish democracy in Haiti Barco hints at flexibility Bogota Reuter colombian president Virgilio Barco has hinted at More flexibility in dealing with drug lords after pledging to fight them to the in a letter published in the news paper Al Tiempo Barco said the government which is to carry out the is flexible because the same Laws offer alternatives without departing from the constitutional his letter gave no details but suggested a Middle ground Between Blind and obstinate repression or open and undefined dialogue with the narcotics his addressed to Hernando publisher of Colombia big Gest Selling accompanied the communique he issued Friday responding to an offer by the drug lords to cease their illegal activities and Lay Down their that communique said authorities would fight traffickers organizations until they were top afghan general claims officials guided attack Kabul a a top afghan general alleged yesterday that the ambassador to Pakistan and a state department envoy directed Muslim rebels in their attack on the Eastern afghan City of Jala Labad last Abdul Haq a Secretary of Afghanistan military also claimed that two Paki Stani artillery units participated in the the plan to attack Jala Labad was directed under the leadership of Robert Oakley and Peter with the direct participation of two artillery military units of the Paki Stan armed Plumi told for eign Oakley is the ambassador to and Thomsen is a state department Plumi said there is Clear Evi Dence to support his but he did not the general claimed that Paki Stani troops dressed in afghan clothes fought alongside the guerrillas in Eastern Afghanistan four times in Pakistan has denied its troops Ever participated in the neighbouring civil War Between the soviet backed government and Muslim guerrillas known As or islamic holy the guerrillas launched an fallout attack on a strategic on March three weeks after the soviet Union withdrew the last of its forces from the City of about people is about 65 Kilometres from the Border with where the guerrillas Are and it would have Given them a major foothold in afghanis guerrillas overran a key army Garrison outside but their drive to capture the City eventually halted under withering artillery fire and Aerial bombing by afghan casualties on both sides were Esti mated in the it was seen As a humiliating defeat for the Ger who have yet to conquer any major afghan Cash in on the i Fol based on Basic insurance on the vehicle no payments for 6 months on Bank financing see your participating Winnipeg Volkswagen dealers ;