European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1981 thousands mourn slain bedouin from press dispatches Tel Aviv thousands of mostly turned out for the funeral of a bedouin the first israeli Mem Ber of parliament Ever police arrested four israeli Arab Sheik Hamad the 51year old Leader of one of the largest bedouin was shot twice at close Range Mon Day night in his car outside a West Jerusa Lem hotel where he often stayed when parliament was in he was the first of israels bed Ouin Ever to serve in the prime minister Menachem begin abhorred the slaying and said Abu Rabilas killers would be brought to police said they arrested four suspects two of them israeli druze arabs from the Village of Yirka in the Western two others were arrested near the occupied West Bank town of on their Way to Israel radio the radio said one of the suspects was wearing an israeli army uniform with offi cers who had often said he feared assassination and was carrying a gun at the time of the had been feuding Over his Knesset scat with druze Sheik Jabar who comes from Yir representatives at funeral president Yitzhak Navon attended the funeral in Abu Rabilas Home Village of Skeifa in the Negev Deputy prime minister Simha Erlich represented begins begin postponed consultations with his liked bloc on the possibility of Early elections so members could attend the Ceredo Abu Rabiya represented the United Arab list in the opposition labor party alignment and was the Only one of the Arab members of parliament to Wear the traditional Arab headdress during parliament he lived in a two Story House in a bedouin Encampment Between Arad and he championed Arab causes in parliament and was a primary critic of the governments compensation offers to bed Ouin for Large tracts of Negev land being used for airbase though the bedouin of Israel have mostly Given up their nomadic style of Abu Rabiya led opposition to government plans to Settle the bedouin in the police refused to comment on the but were reported investigating the possibility that the death was connected to inter Arab the newspaper Maaris reported that Abu Rabiya recently was threatened with death and sent letters to the of the minister of defense and the head of the asking for an i Vestiga British women Zero in members of the women Royal army they Are the first women to train instruct enlisted women in the use of corps take aim at Sandhurst pistol with guns following Britain decision to guns for defense leftist maps see no evil in Kabul Afghanistan visit stirs British storm London a a left Wing British legislator Back from a visit to soviet Ccu pied Afghanistan with two colleagues said monday they gained enough information to convince us that Many of the reports in Western newspapers Are exaggerated or simply Ron Brown said he and House of com Mons colleagues Allan Roberts and Robert Litherland visited Kabul and found the afghan capital operates normally As far As we could there is no siege and soviet troops Are virtually control is clearly in the hands of the afghans and local people were anxious to shake our All three legislators Are on the left Wing of the opposition labor party and Brown admitted in an interview with the British Domestic news Agency press association i generally support the Karmal president Babrak Karmal was installed with soviet military backing a Row erupted after the three legislators returned to Britain sunday night Halfway through their scheduled 10day tour of of a Western resident of Kabul said on arrival at that he watched the three Call Western reports on Afghanistan lies in a news conference broadcast by afghan state Tele Roberts denied a radio Kabul Broad cast that he and his colleagues had Western news organizations fabricated reports on the afghan i never made that nor did i attend the meeting in Jala Labad where i was supposed to have made this Allega Roberts said at London Heathrow Airport sunday but Brown told press association Mon Day i generally support the Karmal gov i said that in that speech in Jala i support it in its aim to improve the conditions of working people in Afghani but i would also like to see agreement reached so that soviet troops Are he said the three legislators decided their own program when they visited there was no sign of soviet troops and shops and businesses appeared to be local people were he said afghan businessmen they met looked quite Happy and Prosper the Western source said in Islamabad that statements attacking the capitalist press were made during a 30minute Tele cast saturday of a news conference at iranian pleads innocent in London killings i a a 11u i London a a 23yearold Irani an pleaded innocent at London old Bailey Central criminal court tuesday to murder ing two people during the occupation of the iranian embassy Here last Fowzi Badavi a former dockworkers from Khuze Stan and the Only surviving gunman from the dramatic six Day denied murdering Abbas an embassy press and Ali Akbar a a student and Par time employee at the Neads five fellow gunmen died when Britain crack special air service com Mandos stormed the freeing the 19 remaining wearing a White open neck shirt and Gray jacket and speaking through an inter Nejad pleaded guilty to three other he admitted conspiring with others to commit murder in the execution and pursuance of the unlawful occupation of the iranian embassy and in pursuance of your demands published during the course of that he also admitted imprisoning a London police Trevor lock during the siege and possessing including two polish sub machine three 9mm Brown ing self loading pistols and a revolver and prosecutor Kenneth Richardson told the jury although the defendant had pleaded guilty to three he denied the murder of the two hostages at the Irani and therefore had to be his trial before you for murder is not a superfluous or empty he a terrorist takes hostages that Are he is guilty of whether he tired the fatal shots or not or was even pre sent when they were that is the Law of and i suspect it is the Law of Many other civilized countries for 31 nerve tingling minutes Britain and much of the rest of the world watched live on television As the commandos armed with sub machine guns and stun grenades mounted their attack amid the Boom of explosions and the crackle of from the building set ablaze by the sex the commandos rescued All 19 hos tages still being tended by afghan and East european re the backed by Moscow and with expenses paid by the Karmal has stirred controversy in Britain Over speculation it will serve to give legitimacy to the Karmal the British foreign office called the trip inappropriate and one conservative newspaper said it was a betrayal of electronic mail now in effect to London Washington a the postal service announced monday that a High Speed International electronic postal is now available Between the United states and the electronic service uses the facsimile transmission of messages to Speed up postal it was first offered in september 1980 Between Washington and new York City and the metropolitan Toronto which Cost per Page in this can be transmitted from postal service Headquarters Here or at the world Trade Center in new aimed at firms the service is aimed primarily at news and information the banking and manufacturing industries and multinational the postal service uses electronic equip ment to scan letters and documents to con Vert their contents into signals which Are relayed to Canada by land the Mes sages to London Are directed to Toronto where a switching arrangement allows transmission by satellite to the postal service the signals Are then converted into facsimiles on regular paper at the receiving the postal service said it will continue negotiations to expand the Intel Post service to other Western european
