European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday may3,1989 Mitterrand asks Arafat to clarify policy Paris a president Francois Mitterrand told Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat tucs a that the Plo s charter which Calls for the destruction of Israel contradicted the organization s new moderate policies a spokesman reported. A Point frequently made by Israel is that despite the decision by the pales Tine National Council the Plo s parliament in exile. To recognize Israel and renounce terrorism the organization s charter still Calls for the jewish state s destruction. During the meeting. Or. Francois Mitterrand noted that the continuation in Force of the charter of the Plo adopted in 1964. Was contrary to important Points of the political program adopted by the Palestine National coun cil in Algiers on nov. 15. 1988 and that in his e is. Things should be made Clear said a statement read by Mitterrand s spokesman. Hubert pc done. Arafat alter the 90-Minule meeting with the French president smiled and posed for photographers on the Steps of the presidential Palace. Urged to com ment he said Only it was a very successful and useful he added that All would be explained at a news conference scheduled for wednesday. The controversial Arafat visit aroused the anger of much of the French jewish shopkeepers set off their Bur Glar alarms As a protest. About 2.000 police including Sharp shooters and helicopter patrols were Mobili cd for the Light Security arrange ments for the trip during which Arafat also was to meet with Premier Michel Ricard and foreign minister Roland Dumas. Vodrine read the French statement about the meeting and said he would answer no questions from reporters. The statement said Arafat was received in his Quality As head of the Plo executive committee and in the context of the Plo s adoption of . Resolutions concerning the recognition of the slate of Israel and its rights and to the renunciation by the Plo of any form of terrorism. These conditions were in the line of a speech delivered by the president to the Knesset israeli parliament in March 1982 during his state visit to Irael namely the right of Israel to live in secure recognized and guaranteed Sev. an Arab woman walks past pasters in Marseille France protesting Arafat s visit. Plo offs Al ambushed wounded Sidon Lebanon a is Amsalem the Plo s senior official in Lebanon was shot and seriously wounded tuesday in an ambush in this Southern port City police officials id pans with pal Estine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat were in formed of the Sidon 25 Miles South of Bei rut police said Salem was driving along Fakhreddin Street when masked gunmen raked his car with gunfire at 1 05 . Salem is wounded in the chances of survival Are very slim said a police spokesman who cannot be identified under standing was rushed to Hammond Hospital and was undergoing sur Gery the spokesman said adding that police had no clue to the Iden Tity or motive of the gunmen. On saturday Zes Wehbi the official spokesman in Lebanon for Arafat s Fatah guerrilla faction escaped assassination when a Roc feet propelled grenade was fired at Bis Idon Home. Two passers by were wounded by shrapnel in the attack but Wehbi was not Home. There was no claim of responsibility for the tuesday attack or the attack on the French capital where Arafat Mes with president Francoi Mitterrand of France a Plo offi Cial said the Plo chairman had been told of the attack on Salem his personal representative in Leo Borders and the right of the Palestin ians to have a country and to create by self determination the institutions of their the statement added that Mitterrand questioned Arafat on his position concerning elections proposed by the israeli government in the West Bank and the a a strip and expressed French a can Cern about the serious present situation of the inhabitants of these he indicated to or. Yasser Arafat that France would continue to act with All interested parties so that an International conference on the Middle East can be held under the terms he Mitterrand has already suggested the statement concluded. 5 boys charged with killing schoolmate for 15 cents Seoul South Korea a five boys were charged with killing a 9-year-old classmate who refused to give them his pocket Money police said monday. The youths grabbed Suh Kwang
