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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday june 6.198bshultz urges end to israeli occupation Jerusalem a Secretary of slate George p. Shutlz on sunday urged Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip and restore rights to palestinians. Now is the time for further Progress toward peace Shutlz said at Ben Gurion International air port near Tel Aviv after he arrived for a seven hour visit to pursue his Middle East peace initiative. The continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip and the frustration of palestinian rights is a dead end. To continue it is an  Shultz said. The United Stales has put Forward a plan for negotiations. No party has the luxury to turn aside a Chance to  Israel Sci cd the West Bank and Gaza strip daring the 1967 Middle East War. Since Ami occupation unrest broke Oul in the occupied lands on dec. 8, israeli soldiers have killed More than 200 palestinians. Two israelis have been killed. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres greeted Shutlz. We look upon you As a Man with a Mes Sage a Man who carries a message of peace to All of us be said. Peres said there was a Choice Between the continued arms race fanaticism fundamentalism and other manifestations of extremism and the Lough decision required to Block this hand and to Olter the Middle East arabs and jews alike a different  before Shultz arrived Peres who Heads the leftist labor party told israeli radio i will do All i can to Advance the peace process. Let s say the peace process Dies then what s the alternative prime minister Yitzhak Shamir who objects to parts of Shutlz s plan told israeli radio saturday that he does not expect a breakthrough. Shamir who Heads the right Wing liked bloc objects to trading land for peace. He also oppose a pro posed internal Onat peace conference in which West Ern countries would mediate a settlement of the Arab israeli conflict. On sunday a Shamir spokesman Yossi Ahi Meir said the Premier greatly welcomes the visit the Effort or. Shultz is making to Advance the peace pro  Ahi Meir also said Shamir will raise Israel s concern about the use of chemical weapons by Arab Stales and their newly purchased medium Range missiles. He feels that the whole free world should raise ill voice against the use of these weapons by Arab Stales Ahi Meir said. Shultz is also expected to report to israeli leaders on the Moscow Summit held last week and on his talks in Cairo israeli officials said. Peres told israeli radio he was encouraged by changes he said he has detected in the Kremlin s approach to the Middle East. The soviet Union broke diplomatic tics with Israel during the 1967 War but has gradually resumed contacts Over the last two years. After the Moscow Summit soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev also said he will consider regularizing ties with Israel once an International conference is underway. In the past the soviet Union has been mostly a weapons supplier to the Middle East Peres said. Now they support Compromise. This is a real  Israel s supreme court upholds deportation of Arab american Jerusalem a the israeli supreme court on sunday upheld a government decision to Deport Arab american Mubarak Awad an advocate of civil disobedience toward israeli Rule in the occupied Terri tories. The court said it will delay the deportation until next sunday apparently to give Awad time to appear in court for a civil Libet suit against the israeli daily Maaris. Awad 44, responded to the ruling by saying i am not disappointed. I will continue to fight for a Palestin Ian state wherever i  the decision by the three judge panel was read in a Mubarak avid carrying an Olive Branch leaves court sunday Afler his deportation is upheld. 10-minute session Only hours before Secretary of stale George p. Shultz who protested the deportation order was due to arrive in Israel to pursue a peace initiative. Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir ordered Awad de ported May 6, after the Arab american was arrested the previous Day and accused of playing a role in inciting the 6-Monih-old Arab uprising in the occupied territories. The Jerusalem born Awad who also has a Home in Wapakoneta Ohio has denied the charges. Awad describes himself As an adherent of the late Indian Leader Mohandas k. Gandhi s philosophy of civil disobedience and has written a widely circulated pamphlet called non violent resistance a strategy for the occupied  in a statement from jail Afler he was ordered de ported Awad said for prime minister Shamir to say that i. A Christian will be forever prevented from re turning to my cily of Jerusalem to Pray in my holy places is totally  Awad was bom in Jerusalem when the cily was ruled by neighbouring Jordan his Appeal against the deportation was considered by his lawyers to be a test Case for the Slatus of palestinians under israeli Rule in the City. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after capturing the sector of the cily from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War. Israel s reason for deportation was that Awad failed to renew a tourist visa that expired last year. Awad s attorneys Jonathan Kuttab and Avraham Gal contended he did not need a visa and should be allowed permanent residence because he was born in Jerusalem. In issuing the deportation order a Shamir spokesman Avi Pazner accused Awad on my 7ih of helping to compile a series of leaflets urging palestinians to throw stones and firebombs Al israeli targets. According to . Figures. 201 palestinians have been killed in the uprising. Three israelis also have died. Gal won court approval to delay his client s deportation pending another hearing in a $100,000 libel suit. In the suit tiled last week Awad challenged maa Riv for claiming in an article on May 13 that he dealt in drugs and channelled the proceeds to the Palestine liberation organization world today Norway plans to slow Rise in defense spending Oslo Norway api nato Allied Norway will slow the increase in ill defense spending to about 2 percent a year under a five year defense plan presented to parliament. The defense plan said Norway will give Mili tary priority to its Remote and unpopulated arc tic Region near the soviet Border and to the Protection of vital sea lanes. A soviet naval buildup in Northern Waters has increased the need for naval cooperation by nato to defend the Supply lines across the Al lactic and protect the norwegian and British coasts the planning paper said. $1.4 million in Stamps missing from Liberia Airport Monrovia Liberia a the govern ment has acknowledged that postage Stamps Worth si.4 million have disappeared from an Airport warehouse. The ministry of Post and telecommunications confirmed that the Stamps arc missing after two daily newspapers broke the Story. The daily observer one of he newspapers. Reported thai the liberian Stamps had been stored at the warehouse awaiting shipment to London where they were to be sold to collectors. Belgian official requests probe of phone tapping Brussels a belgian Deputy prime min ister Hugo Schollz has claimed that his Telephone is being tapped and is asking for a Legal inquiry. His name had been mentioned in connection with a judicial investigation of a member of Schiltz s nationalist flemish party Volk sume. The investigation was on alleged bribery but investigators would not give details. Schiltz denied in a news conference he had anything to do with the investigation of the party member. He said he has evidence his Pri vate Telephone was being lapped. He said he will bring a Legal action for Viola lion of professional secrets and violation of secret  soviets returning monastery buildings to Church Moscow a buildings in the nation s oldest monastery will be re Lumen to he russian orthodox Church nest week after 27 years of state ownership symbolizing Progress in religious Freedom officials announced saturday. Parts of the monastery of the caves have become museums and Wilt remain in government hands. The monastery was established in 1050 on the Banks of the a nether River in Kiev capital of the Ukraine where christianity arrived 1,000 years ago in what now is the soviet Union. About 100 buildings Are on the Mon Astery grounds which Are dolled with caves in which religious leaders and Early princes of Kiev were buried. Chuich and slate officials made the announcement at the Danilov monastery in Moscow on the eve of we Klong festivities commemorating the Christian Mil Benium in this officially atheistic state. Pope John Paul ii is sending a Vatican delegation led by his Secretary of state. Cardinal Agostino Casaroli that includes nine other cardinals. President Reagan visited Danilov last monday and urged the government to ease restrictions on religion. Since the bolshevik revolution of 1917, tens of thousands of churches have been destroyed or converted to govern ment use and priests have been exiled or killed. Dictator Josef Stalin limited the activities of houses of worship allowed to remain open. About 90 million soviet people participate in acl Vilics of religious faiths How Ever and the government is reconsider ing its restrictions. As a sign of the change it has participated in organizing celebrations of the millennium which begin sunday. Nationalization of the monastery of the caves in 1961 began a Long period of protest by Church Leaden they raised the Issue most recently in an april meet ing with Gorbachev  
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