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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday november 24, 1985 Plo officials approve vow made to Egypt by Arafat world today iia ill m. Iraq al1 Yasser Arafat s aides have approved his no pledge nil " conduct guerrilla opera inns of Insuk israeli occupied Arab ice Tilory. A Plo offi Cial reported i . Arafat made tire pledge to president Llo sni Mubarak of i pm Afier the hijacking of an italian cruise liner by palestinians last month during which an american tourist was killed. The Palestine liberation organization denied involvement in the hijacking. The Plo chairman has never specifically said whether the occupied  h mentioned include Only those Israel Sci cd in the l%7 Middle Las War or include is Rael which the Plo considers to be occupied Palestine. When asked by reporters on nov. 13 whether Mubarak s interpretation was Correct that there would be no attack a in Israel Only on the West Bank and Gaza strip Arafat did t answer directly. The to Cit is Clear he said. It includes All occupied palestinian lands. I am not responsible for other people s  the Plo official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the organization s executive committee and the leadership of Arafat s guerrilla group Fatah unanimously approved his Cairo declaration. The Plo leadership began closed meetings thursday at a secret location in Baghdad. He said the leadership spent Friday discussing the Plo position and role in current efforts toward peace in the Middle cast. It was the first Plo executive meeting since the israeli air raid oct. I on ils Headquarters in Tunisia. Mohammed Abbas Leader of the Palestine liberation front faction did not attend the meeting the official said. Mandela released from Hospital returns to prison Johannesburg South Africa a Black Leader Nelson Mandela was returned to his prison outside Cape town saturday from Volks Hospital where he underwent surgery nearly three weeks ago a prisons service official said. Mandela 67, was hospitalized so doctors could remove an inflamed prostate gland on nov. 3. He stayed in the Hospital beyond the usual recovery period despite physicians reports that he was doing Well leading to widespread speculation that he would be re leased from prison. Mandela a former Law act considered the most influential Black Leader in South Africa was sentenced to life in prison in 1964 after being convicted of sabotage and conspiring to overthrow the government. It was rumoured that the government planned to Fly Mandela to neighbouring Zambia where the african National Congress that he once headed has its Headquarters. The outlawed Anc i fighting a guerrilla War to end apartheid. The South african government however denied the rumours. Blacks repeatedly have called for Mandela s release and the demands intensified after the outbreak of Ami pan acid rioting nationwide 15 months ago. President . Botha offered last january to free Man Dela if he renounced violence. Mandela said he would accept Freedom Only if the government renounced what he called the violence of the apartheid system freed All Politi Cal prisoners and legalized anti apartheid organizations. Mandela s wife Winnie and two family lawyers visited Mandela in the Hospital Friday. They left Cape town later without commenting on his future. On Friday police partially blamed mob violence for a week of anti apartheid unrest in which 30 Blacks died but witnesses accused Riol patrols of firing on protesters with out provocation. News accounts also contradicted a police report that Black crowds in Mam Clodi had pelted officers with Gaso line bombs and chunks of Brick forcing them to open fire. Thirteen Blacks were killed in that clash thursday. The other 17 deaths in one of the bloodiest weeks in 15 months of anti apartheid rioting came in Queenstown also in Eastern Cape province. A police statement had accused particularly violent mobs of provoking the clash in Mam Clodi. Reporters estimated 50.000 people had gathered to protest rent hikes restrictions on funerals for riot victims and the deployment of soldiers in the township. He would not disclose Abbas s whereabouts. Abbas has an iraqi diplomatic passport. Both the United states and italian authorities accuse Abbas a member of the Plo executive committee of masterminding the two Day hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro that began oct. 7. The other nine members of the executive committee were present for the meeting. Four of the 15 committee scats Are reserved for dissident Plo factions that have not claimed them and the 15th member. Fahd Al Law Asch. Was assassinated in december. According to the Plo official the leadership was still discussing whether it should change its stance on . Security Council Resolution 242," which Cal s for Israel to withdraw from occupied territories and recognizes its right to exist. He said the discussions were conducted in the Light of guarantees by King Hussein of Jordan that the  would change its attitude toward the Plo if it accepted the Resolution. Arafat and Hussein agreed feb. 11 on a joint approach to peace in the Middle East. Washington has refused to Deal with the Plo until it accepts the Resolution and thus Israel s existence. Plo sources said Arafat had summoned the 75-Mem bar Palestine Central Council to meet sunday to consider sensitive and serious decisions by the executive commit tee. They did not elaborate but they said the leadership would remain in session until then. Dressed for the season a statue of woman in Berlin s  appears to Lute donned in Ermine Coal after i recent snowfall. The Iron lady does not seem to be upset o or the Early taste of Winter. . Buyer pays record Price for 92-year-old German wine trip germ and Dpi a dealer acting fora . Cli pad a chord 22.000 Marks about $8,429 at auction for a 92-year-old bottle of White wine. The new Best Price was paid for an 1893 bottle of Stein Burner riesling  Cabinet at an auction organized by the German Fine wine federation in the City of Trier on the Luxembourg Border. A second Best world White wine Price of 21,000 Marta $8 046 was paid for a bottle of 1921 rheingau or nu1in Gold  Erbacher Honigberg. It too a bought for an american client. Police in Florence arrest German in torching of cars Florence Italy up police said they had arrested a West German architect on charges of going on one of a spate of nocturnal automobile burning sprees thai have destroyed 80 cars in this Renaissance City. Officers seized Roland Ulrich Wagner after a passer by spotted him torching two parked cars and raised the alarm. Wagner 36, of Coburg has lived in Florence for three years and works As a set designer for a local company supplying Heaters. Police said he was the third person they had arrested in recent weeks for a spate of arson attacks on cars believed to have damaged some 80 vehicles. Wagner gathered plastic bags full of garbage left in the Street for collection stuffed the bags under the cars and set them ablaze police said. Chinese studies suggest garlic is Good anti cancer agent peking up chinese researchers have found that garlic is an effective anti cancer agent the official Xinhua news Agency says. Scientists at the Shandong medical College the Jinan chemistry research Institute and the peking medical College reported that garlic helps Block nitrosamine syn thesis believed to induce cancer Xinhua said. Since 1983, the three organizations have undertaken research on blocking nitrosamine synthesis by using Gar Lic Xinhua said. They proved that garlic can Block nitrosamine synthesis in different ways such As blocking the promotion function of holds and germs and blocking the function of chemical  the Agency said the researchers concluded that garlic a Staple of chinese cooking has an obvious anti cancer  state of emergency replaces 7-year martial Law in Istanbul Istanbul Turkey up a seven year period of martial Law has been lifted in Istanbul and replaced by a four month state of emergency signalling a gradual easing of restrictions the official radio reported. Martial Law was imposed in Istanbul Turkey s larg est City and its commercial capital in 1978 following a Battle Between right and left Wing extremists in a South Eastern area. After the 1980 military coup martial Law was extended to cover the whole nation. Turkey returned to civilian Rule in 1983, but martial Law continued in much of the country until this year when it was lifted in the capital of Ankara and other areas and replaced by a four month slate of emergency. Only eight of the country s 67 provinces still remain under martial Law most of them in the rugged Southeast of the country where kurdish separatist guerrillas arc still Active. China plans to dredge Yangtze for 9,000-mile waterway project peking a China plans to dredge the entire Yangtze River and its 33 tributaries to form a 9,000-mile navigation waterway by the year 2000, an official newspaper has reported. The project also will modernize ship and transport facilities such As navigation radar systems along Asia s larg est River said the English language China daily quoting the China news service. It said thai in the first phase of the project from 1986 to 1990, Sluice Gates along the River and its 15 major tributaries will be cleared and More than 5,220 Miles of the River will be dredged. Between 1990 and 2000 another 4,020 Miles of River routes in the Middle and lower reaches of the River will be cleared for navigation the report said. It did not say How much the project would Cost  
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