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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday March 14,1988 Israel bars gasoline trucks from entering West Bank Jerusalem a Israel choked off gasoline supplies to the israeli occupied West Bank on sunday after a Plo inspired Campaign forced 430 Arab police and tax collectors to resign. The army confirmed that an Arab died after being shot in the Eye in a clash last week but denied Arab reports that a 5-year-old boy died from bums sustained by a Gas grenade. The army said the youth had been playing with kerosene stove when he was fatally burned. A spokes Man said the parents initially blamed soldiers but later retracted the allegation. On the eve of prime minister Yitzhak Shamir s visit to Washington. Israeli right wingers planned a mass show of support sunday night for Shamir s refusal to accept . Peace proposals for the Middle East. After two fuel trucks were set ablaze in the Westbank and others stoned maj. Gen. Amram Mitina banned fuel trucks from entering he West Bank the daily Maaris newspaper said. A senior official in the West Bank military govern ment confirmed the report but stressed that fuel would be delivered to stations that serve Hospital ambulances Mcfarlane has for Iron Contra Washington a even though he has prom ised to cooperate with the Independent counsel investigating the Iran Contra affair former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfarlane said sunday that he is unable to provide any new  saying i expect to testify it s neither for nor against really anyone Mcfarlane said on Abc tvs this week with David  it s to say what i be already said on the record an there s nothing new that i know of to change what s there. And As tar As i know that s All there  Why Independent counsel Lawrence e Walsh would want him Mcfarlane said i suppose that he wants to hold everyone who did something wrong accountable and he s certainly done that with me but it in t a matter of being Able to embellish what i be already  Mcfarlane pleaded guilty Friday to four Misdemeanour charges of withholding information from Congress by falsely assuring lawmakers that members of his staff specifically it. Col. Oliver l North were not involved in private efforts to Arm the nicaraguan rebels during statutory ban on direct . Aid to the contras. As part of the plea agreement Mcfarlane agreed to cooperate with Walsh s inquiry into the secret Sale of . Arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to the  said Friday that Mcfarlane s plea furthers the work of the office of the Independent counsel be cause he has agreed to cooperate  and service vehicles. The army confirmed that economic restrictions had been imposed on a Atiyeh where an alleged Collaborator was hanged from an electrical pole last month Byan angry mob. The Village which has a Stone Quarry will be barred from exporting its products to Jordan and will be unable to receive visitors from abroad an army official said. A Atiyeh is also without electricity he said. Defense minister Yitzhak Rabin last month said Israel might have to resort to economic restrictions against the 1.5 million arabs in the West Bank an Gaza strip if strikes and violence persist. Police ministry spokesman Nahum Mendel said 430of 830 Arab police officers in the West Bank and Gaza had handed in their papers after underground leaflet called for their resignations. He said israeli police officers might be called to help but not enough could be summoned to provide the same service. The government May offer wage in creases to attract new recruits and keep Veteran police he said. Nothing new investigation Mcfarlane who resigned As president Reagan s National Security adviser in december 1985, travelled to Tehran Iran in May 1986 with North on a Mission to deliver spare missile parts and persuade iranian officials to help obtain the release of . Hostages in Lebanon. The grand jury that Walsh Impan eled 14 month Sago is preparing to return indictments in the next Sev eral weeks. Mom from Page 1 limited in Fayetteville. According to a brochure obtained by the inquirer the company consists entirely of Delta Force and special operations qualified  its founders left the military in 1983 amid allegation that they had claimed expenses from both the state department and the army for guarding vips at . Embassies in Central America the newspaper said. State department investigators now want to know. Whether credentials issued to the company s founders while in the military were used in the jordanian Inci Dent the newspaper said. News Hicls jews in Vienna Mark nazi takeover of Austria Vienna Austria a some of the Vienna jews who survived Hitler s death grip on aus Tria gathered sunday at a synagogue and at former Gestapo Headquarters to remember the  and tears mingled inside the City s oldest synagogue where More than a thousand jews marked the 50th anniversary of the anschluss Austria s annexation by nazi  one can feel our pain no one can feel our suffering rabbi Chaim Eisenburg told the congregation. The meeting was the emotional Climax of fou Days of solemn remembrances of the annexation. Political and cultural leaders engaged in an unprecedented Public probing of their nation s role As victim and perpetrator of nazi terror and continued to discuss the problem of president Kurt Waldheim. There were 200,000 jews in Vienna in march1938, when Adolf Hitler s troops swept into his native Austria. Today just 6,000 jews remain Amix of holocaust survivors and younger jews from the soviet bloc and Israel. Police disperse protesters demonstrating near Madrid Madrid Spain a police fired tear Gas and rubber bullets on sunday to disperse demonstrators outside Madrid demanding the Dis mantling of four .-Leascd air bases in Spain. Police said they arrested three demonstrators and several policemen and demonstrators were injured in clashes that broke out after the demonstrators finished a 7-mile March from Madrid to Torrejon one of the three .-Lcased airbases. The others Are in Zaragoza and Moron. Police said the demonstrators threw stones a police. The organizers of the March Madrid s anti nato association the communist party leftist workers unions and pacifist groups said participants in the March numbered 50,000. Police sources said the March Drew no More than  marches were held in san Sebastian. Bilbao and Pamplona involving an estimate crowd of 5,500 in the three Northern Spanish  Jan. Is after 18 months of negotiations the United states agreed to a Spanish demand to withdraw the air Force s 401st tactical fighter Wing of 72 f-16s and an estimated 4,000 air Force personnel within three years from the joint use base at  a new eight year treaty expected to be signed this Spring the United slates retains us of Zaragoza and Moron air bases and an important naval station at Rota on the Atlantic coastal Well As nine communication centers. Jackson from Page 1 ago with vice president George bus crushing his opponents. With signs pointing to another Republican primary Victory by Bush in Illinois the vice president came under renewed criticism sunday from gop rival Bob Dole and from Jackson who said bus would enter the race with a lot of bag  poll to be published in monday s editions of the Chicago Tribune showed Jackson moving into the Lead among Likely democratic voters in tuesday primary. The Survey said Jackson was favo Redby 32 percent of the democrats Simon by 29 percent and Dukakis by 20 per cent. Five Hundred Likely democratic Pri Mary voters were contacted thursday and Friday and the Survey had a margin of error of 5 percent meaning the num Bers could be off that much up or Down. Simon dependent on a Home state Victory to remain in the race said he had overcome poor showings in polls during other campaigns. If i get my message across to the peo ple of Illinois they re going to vote for me he said. The new poll indicated slippage in Simon s support. A Survey published in the Tribune on sunday said the senator was leading with support from 35 percent of Likely democratic voters while Jackson had the backing of 30 percent and Duka Kis that of 18 percent. Simon and Dukakis also traded bar son the question of whether the demo cratic nomination would be determinedly a brokered convention next july in Atlanta. The Tribune poll on sunday also showed Bush with a 34-Point Lead Over Dole. The newspaper did not continue surveying republicans. Dole struggling to revive his presiden tial Campaign insisted he would fight on full bore after Illinois although he said he had no obligation to look Ridick  i dare George Bush to debate Bodole Dole told a news conference. In originating his broadcast from Knox col lege in Galesburg he had picked the time and site to conform to Bush s appearance at the same location he said. Bush has repeatedly rejected Dole debate challenges. That ploy has been used before he said. Debates Are cruel and unusual punishment. We be already had seven  dote denied he dislikes Bush but he said i do believe that he s son of had a charmed life in politics he s gotten quite ways without doing very much. Maybe that s a key to Success i had t  the senator renewed his debate Chal Lenge to Bush and raised again the ques Tion of a possible tie Between the Vic president and panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega who has been accused of involvement in drug trafficking. I d like George Bush to Tell us whether Noriega was on his payroll when he was Cia director said Dole. As for his prospects for a  said sooner or later the voters in one of these states Are going to say Waita minute we re about to nominate some one who can t win in , Jackson and Gephardt made forays saturday into Michigan where democrats hold caucuses March 26. Jackson addressed the graduating class at Michigan state University recalling the tumult of the civil rights move England calling on graduates to work for More than material  visited the 230-worker Olofsson corp. Plant which makes exotic computer controlled machines and Laid the United states needs to reinvest in it Industrial base. After campaigning in Chicago greek town Region on Friday night Dukakis stopped saturday at an italian bakery on the City s West Side to help bake bread. Photo related Story on Page Republican candidate Pat Robertson also was in Illinois but insisted he did not need a Victory in the state to remaining the race. La looks Strong for me in the West he said. If he loses the fight for the gop Nomi nation said Robertson "111 dust myself offend be right Back in it in 1992." in the gop race. Bush has 705 delegates while Dole is a Distant second with 163. Robertson has 17  
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