European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 2 -1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 by Daniel Williams a the los Angeles times Jerusalem a Israel s government sunday imposed new restrictions on travel by palestinians into Israel. A. A a the restrictions pledge to accelerate deportation of nationalist activists and affirm policy of demolishing houses belonging to armed assailants As part of a Campaign to put an end to assaults on israelis. Expulsions and House demolitions have Long been opposed by Washington. The decision to continue with both tactics will Likely draw criticism from the Bush administration which is pushing for an easing of tension Between Israel and palestinians As a Means of setting the stage for peace talks. It ? however israeli officials insist that such measures Are needed for self defense and should not be put in the context of opposition to peace half dozen fatal knife assaults on israelis during March provoked an outcry for a crackdown prompting the government s response on sunday. A. Quot with the intention of increasing its deterrent Power Israel will expel incites in places from where murderers stabbers and others set out. Expulsion is considered especially effective a state run radio said. The expulsion orders will in Tihle nationalist palestinians who live within Jerusalem City limits officials said. Several Public spokesmen for the nearly 3v year old uprising make their Homes within Arab neighbourhoods of the City. The Tough new measures also forbid workers from the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip to drive their own cars into Israel. The move is meant to put the labor e is under tighter Brit rid of their elite lovers who Are supposed to pick up their employees and ensure that the palestinians do not stay in Israel overnight. The number of work permits Given to palestinian workers will be further reduced. Israel had already sharply Cut the flow of workers into Israel during the persian Gulf War. The loss of jobs deepened an Leo nomic depression gripping the West Bank and Gaza strip and intelligence optic gals have warned that increasing hardship could Lead to More violence. Until the Gulf War broke out about 120,000 palestinians held mostly menial jobs in Israel. That number has been Cut to 50,0 10 in the last two months. Some View the tightened restrictions As a step toward a de Facto separation of the West Bank and Gaza from Israel and therefore a kind of vie tory in their drive for Independence. Others however recognizing the damage done to palestinian economic Well being oppose the move. Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir s government considers the occupied land to be part of Israel and is committed to holding onto it. A thousands mourn 3 slain in Northern Ireland Craigavon Northern Ireland apr thousands of mourners gathered on easter for the funeral of three roman catholics slain in a protestant revenge attack Only Days after officials announced efforts to end sectarian and friends of katrina Ren Hie 16 Eileen Duffy 19 and Brian Fri. Zell 29, walked behind the coffins through streets lined with black0 flags in Craigavon a county Armagh town 20 Miles Southwest of Belfast. St. Anthonys Church was filled and hundreds others stood outside to hear the Rev Tom Mcguinness Call on a the Ordinary people of the province to reject Quot the men and women of last week Northern Ireland a political parties and the governments of Britain and Ireland announced they would begin talks this Spring aimed at bringing peace and some degree of self government to the Battle torn province. But sinn fein the political Wing of the Irish Republican army was not invited to participate in the talks. Police said two masked gunmen went into a Mobile grocery store thursday and opened fire on the two teen agers Frizell who was about to enter the shop was forced to lie on the ground and shot dead. An Anonymous Telephone caller told police the killings Yere carried out by the protestant action Force a name sometimes used by the outlawed paramilitary. Ulster Volunteer Force. He said the attack was a reprisal for the wounding of the widow of a policeman killed by the several men arrested Friday were being questioned about the thursday murders. Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Brooks said catholics and protestants were tired of the killings which have claimed More than 2,h00 lives since 1969. He urged sinn fein supporters a to Call off their backing for the armed Campaign to resist the pressures to have retaliation for this a the Way of violence the Way of hatred the Way of retaliation the Way of seeking to intimidate coerce or crush those who disagree with us a these Are not the ways of Christian people a he said. Out of respect for the mourning families in Craigavon sinn fein cancelled rallies in county Armagh to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the easter rising a a failed revolt against British Rule in Dublin in 1916.the Ira rooted in the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland has attacked army government and civilian facilities in Northern Ireland Britain and Europe in a Campaign to bring an end. To British Rule in the province. A relative attempts to Comfort Mary Rennie whose 16-year-old daughter katrina was among three slain in an violence in Northern Ireland thursday. Communist party must remain in military Gorbachev says Moscow up a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev told army commanders that the communist party must be kept in the armed forces to keep it Strong Tass reported sunday. _ Gorbachev flatly refused Liberal demands to Depoliti Cize the army according to a summation of his saturday speech to an army communist party conference. The summation was released a Day later by the official Tass Agency. soviet president equated desires by liberals to remove the communist party from the army with demands to break up the soviet Union and Decolley Tivie. A agriculture ,. Quot a a a a a a a. A any unbiased person understands what All Thi Savill mean. The destruction of All elements of statehood Quot subversion and disintegration of the United armed forces of the country a he said. A instead he said Quot there is no doubt that the country a leadership will be seriously preoccupied with the. Construction of the armed forces. We shall not permit any underestimation of the ,. /. A under our defensive doctrine the armed forces must have All necessary things to reliably guarantee the Security of the state and the preservation of peace a Gorbachev said. Gorbachev who is now relying on the support of the military the Kab and the communist party in a get Tough policy continued his assault on what he has described As the so called democratic opposition a a definite part of today a opposition forces is especially dangerous because they exploit and pump up ten Sion in society at any Price for their own political ends often proceeding from the principle the worse it is the better for them a he said. But Gorbachev who is now locked in a political struggle with russian Leader Boris Yeltsin said the positive results of the recent nationwide referendum on preserving the country a clearly showed the _ people favor a renewed a he said the March 17 plebiscite will now allow him to a to begin practical actions with the signing of a new Union treaty with the republics. _ a a a a c Quot the soviet military has the largest standing army in the world and a defense budget that has been blamed by democrats for the parlous state of the civilian Economy. A a a a a a a a. Reformers in the army have suggested that the conscript army be scrapped in favor of a Volunteer Force like that of the United states. Gorbachev a policy of ending the cold War has undoubtedly rankled Veteran army men who have complained that soviet troops were pulled out of East Europe so quickly that accommodations for them and their families at Home were greatly inadequate. Sending the army to quell ethnic disputes has also disconcerted some of the military brass. In january 1990, the army was sent into Baku Azerbaijan after azerbaijani pogroms against armenians erupted arty troops now keep the peace Between armenians and azerbaijanis in the disputed Magorno Karabash enclave called by soldiers the soviet unions Lebanon. A. Hijacker releases 50 on algerian Jet then surrenders r Algiers Algeria apr a Hijacker armed with a grenade surrendered monday after releasing All 44 passengers and six Crew members aboard an air Algeria Jet officials and news reports said. A a the Hijacker gave himself up after More Tolian three hours of negotiations with Interior minister Mohamed Salah Moham Niedzi. The 35-year-old Hijacker who Quot a was not identified sought a postponement of algerian elections scheduled for june transport minister Hassan Kah Luehe said. Airport sources said the Hijacker had been among the passengers on the flight to Algiers Ilou Ari Boule Dienne Airport from Bechar in Southwest Algeria. The Hijacker burst into the cockpit of the Jet with a grenade after it landed sunday algerian radio quoted a witness As saying. The Interior minister talked the Hijacker into letting go about 24 passengers mostly women and children and about 20 More shortly afterwards. There were 44 passengers in Board Airport sources said. After freeing the Crew and giving himself tip the Man was whisked away in a police vehicle to an undisclosed location a ��.-, it was not Clear what Type of plane was involved in sunday s hijacking. The aircraft was described Only As a Boe my. _ _. A a
