European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 3, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 a woman supporter hands a Dove to prime minister Felipe Gonzalez during a Campaign rally in Valencia Spain saturday. Poll shows Gonzalez leads rivals Madrid. Spain up a poll in the daily Al pais sunday shows socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez far ahead of his rivals in popularity ratings at the Start of the general election Campaign. The poll also predicts the socialists will win a wider margin in the june 22 ballot than in the 1982 elections which gave them an absolute majority and 202 of the 350 scats in the lower House. Gains Are shown for the centrist parly of former prime minister Adolfo Suarcz and for the communist party but the conservative opposition group popular coalition Upis seen losing ground. The up led by former Franco min ister Manuel Fraga May see its 106 scats in the lower House reduced to Between 85 and 98. The poll taken in the week running up to the official Campaign launched saturday gives the socialist party 46 percent of the vote and Between 194 and 210 seals in the lower House. Gon Alco led the popularity Rilling with 39 percent of the respondents say ing they want him to be the next prime minister. Fraga followed with 13 percent and Suarcz with 11 percent. The poll showed sure advancing from 2.9 percent of the Vole to 8 percent and the communist parly running on a left Wing coalition ticket rising to h per cent against 3.9 percent. Based on a random sampling of 5,200 eligible voters the poll indicated a Rise in abstention from 20 percent to be tween 25 and 30 percent. Arab factions renew fight for control of Camps Beirut Lebanon a shiite moslem and palestinians battled with tanks and mortars sunday destroying a Short lived cease fire aimed at ending the latest round of a year old War for control of Beirut s refugee Camps. The truce sponsored by Iran and Algeria was called 15 minutes after Midnight sunday. Syrian army observers were assigned to enforce it and disengage the combatants communiques from the warring factions said. But intermittent overnight skirmishes escalated into fierce Battles at mid morning around the Sabra shatilla and Bour i Bara Neh Camps. Syrian observers were unable to move into any of the shantytowns on Beirut s Southern outskirts to firm up the cease fire police said. Shiite militiamen unleashed syrian supplied t-54 tank cannons 106mm recoil less guns and 120mm mortars . Nymn to Man a Ranf Vurn they also alleged that Justice minister Nabih Berri s mainstream amal militia mounted a full scale attack to overrun the shatilla Camp at mid afternoon behind Mas Sive artillery bombardment. But we arc holding them on the fringes. The fighting is even heavier than before the cease fire said a palestinian spokesman. Police said five people were killed and 35 wounded As the fighting raged through a i4lh straight Day. That upped the Overall casually loll to 54 dead and 324 injured since the current round of Shi Ilc palc Linian fighting erupted May 19. The palestinians conceded that 15 were killed and More than 100 wounded from their Side. The new truce was preceded by Salem cats of Goodwill so sprawl Irb our it Bazaj be h Camp forcing a renewed intentions from the commands of the two warring Arab m.,r, of the main High was to Beirut s Airport. of Highway t Beirut s air Poi palestinian spokesmen claimed that their guerrillas hit a shiite tank with an Armor piercing rocket As it Spear headed an attempt to storm into Bour cd Bara Neh. Barri said amal has no plans to overrun any of the three Camps. The palestinian leadership said that under no circumstances would palestinian artillery positions on mountaintops in Central Lebanon Pound densely populated Shi Ilc slums surrounding the Camps. Hundreds of shiite families fled the slums during the fighting and headed for South Lebanon. About 500 palestinian families also fled Sabra and shatilla seeking shelter in mosques garages schools and deserted apartment buildings in moslem Wesl Beirut. But none was Able to flee Bour cd Baraj Nch because the besieged Camp has been under sustained shul firc since Sundown Friday palestinian sources said. One weeping palestinian girl from shatilla said she lost All four members of her family and screamed they Mur dered family. I left alone now. I Don t know what to amal spokesmen have been saying that guerrillas of Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat had filtered Back into the Camps. The syrian backed Shi Ilc militia is determined to pre vent Arafat from rebuilding the Lebanon Power base he lost in Israel s 1982 invasion. Arafat faces Challenge As Leader of Plo guerrillas Amman Jordan a a former Plo intelligence chief on sunday challenged Yasser Arafat for leadership of the Fatah guerrilla movement the larg est body in the Palestine liberation organization. Atallah Atallah presided Over a meet ing of what he said was the general Mili Ary command of Fatah. It voted to fire Arafat As Leader of the movement accuse him and his supporters of Eor Ruplin and to replace Arafat with Atallah until a general Congress of Fatah members can be held. Session As a fraud and the names of those attending it did not match membership lists. Lallah. Also known As Abul Zaim is a former head of Plo intelligence who was fired from Fatah on april 23 by the Plo higher military Council because of his Mutiny against Arafat. Atallah has called the firing illegal. His corrective movement which came into the open earlier this year accuses Arafat and other Fatah leaders of mismanage ment and corruption and Calls for unspecified reforms. Atallah said 409 Plo officers attended sunday s session and there appeared to be at least that Many crammed into a Small room on the Edge of Amman. The general military command is sup posed to include representatives of All Fatah regiments. Atallah claimed that those at tending sunday had gathered from around the Arab world some arriving on foot from Iraq. An aide to Lallah Hussein Owci Dah said about 40 to 45 percent of them came from the Karasch Fatah Camp in Jordan which is controlled by pro Atallah officers. Mainstream Plo spokesmen said nearly All of them came from the Karasch Camp which is tightly restricted by the Jordani ans. There were few signs of senior Fatah officials. The conferees voted to endorse the Aims of Atallah s Reform movement to remove Arafat and his chief Deputy. Khalil Wazir from their posts As Fatah military leaders and to submit seven Fatah officers to prosecution including Arafat s brother Fathi and Atallah s re placement As intelligence chief Fakhrie Shakouri. It also called for preparations for a Gen eral Fatah Congress. Atallah presided Over those attending. They were mostly in civilian clothes. Atal Lah wore an Olive Green military uniform with a Black checked Arab headdress wrap Ped around his neck As a Scarf. His supporters took control of the a ranch Camp after King Hussein s break with Arafat in february. Hussein said he could no longer work with the Plo Leader and asked palestinians to consider new cad Crisp
