European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday october 21,1991arafat, Assad discuss rift United front Damascus Syria a Plo chairman Yasser Arafat held talks saturday with syrian president Hafez Assad seeking to heal a rift and map a coordinated strategy for an upcoming Middle East peace conference. Making his first official visit to Syria since his expulsion eight years ago Arafat headed a delegation of the Palestine liberation organization on a regional tour to forge a strategy for the Arab israeli talks. The peace conference is scheduled to begin oct. 30 in Madrid Spain. A Plo spokesman said Arafat and Assad emerged from More than four hours of talks determined to forge a common front for the conference. The spokesman said both agreed that ending israelis building of settlements in the occupied territories and the future sovereignty of Arab East Jerusalem were key issues that should be discussed. A the two sides agreed that matters relating to the halting of israeli settlements and Jerusalem should be at the top of the Agenda a said the spokesman Yasser Abdrabbo. He said they also agreed that All Arab lands a syrians Golan Heights As Well As the israeli West Bank and Gaza strip a must be returned by Israel. Israel has said its control Over All Jerusalem is not open to discussion. It refuses to consider a land for peace Exchange As a formula to end the Mideast conflict. The Plo spokesman said Assad and Arafat agreed that they should meet with leaders of Egypt Lebanon and Jordan before the Madrid conference to discuss strategy. Arafat was expelled from Syria in 1983 during a struggle for control of the Plo in the Wake of israelis 1982 invasion of Lebanon. However Arafat made one private visit in 1988 for the funeral of a slain Plo colleague. On saturday Arafat was met at the Airport by vice president Abdul Halim Haddam the highest level greeting for a Plo Leader but Short of what could have been accorded him As head of the palestinian state in exile. Assad later entered the meeting with Arafat and other senior palestinian  braves rain mud garbage to talk to brazilian slum dwellers world Young choir members react to the arrival of Pope John Paul ii at a slum near vu6ria, Brazil. Vitoria Brazil apr Pope John Paul ii walked in driving rain through mud and garbage in one of brazils ugliest slums saturday after urging profound reforms to solve economic problems. In the swampy Favela do Liao portuguese for a Shantytown of the garbage Heap a the Pope heard a slum Dweller denounce lies exploitation and violence. More than 50,000 people live in the slum in the Sao Pedro District outside this coastal City. Moved by the sight and sound of 300 children singing in choir practice in a tropical downpour the Pope announced he was leaving a $100,000 Check for the slum dwellers. Then he broke protocol climbed Down from his platform on a Heap of dirt and stones built above rows of wooden shacks and walked past a Chicken wire Fence into the crowd. A this was the moment i had been waiting for with very special affection since i started my second trip to Brazil a the Pope said. The Pope spent his next to last Day in Brazil attacking government neglect in dealing with Street children the spiralling drug Trade political corruption and the Lack of an a a intelligent housing policy to handle millions of homeless. John Paul used three speeches in two cities to deplore the plight of brazils children who he said a Are stricken by poverty even before being bom. And Are often  human rights groups handed the Pope a letter claiming hundreds of children had been murdered by groups wanting to eliminate Petty thievery. They claimed bodies were placed in a pet cemeteries or common burial grounds in Espirito Santo  killed in fall at great Wall Beijing apr a Hong Kong tourist trapped in a Cable car Halfway Down from China s great Wall plunged to his death when he tried to signal for help a newspaper said saturday. His wife tried to climb Down from the car but also fell and was seriously injured the Beijing Ribao newspaper said. It was the first reported tourist fatality on the Cable car which began operating in the summer after years of opposition by cultural preservationists. Saturdays report said the Accident occurred last monday at the Badalin Section of the great Wall the portion most tourists visit. He Qiwen and his wife Huang Beiqiu were coming Down from the Wall when their car stopped Midway the paper said. No one heard their cries for help so he Qiwen tried to smash the car window. The window fell out and he fell to his death. The report did not say How High the car was from the ground. The operator had turned off the Cable car because he thought there were no tourists on it the paper said. Preservationists fought the project for years arguing that it defaced China a most famous landmark and violated a Law Banning construction within 660 feet of the great Wall at  americans visit Anc in South Africa from wire reports Johannesburg South Africa a a group of 31 Black americans including musician Quincy Jones and former Tennis Star Arthur Ashe arrived in South Africa on sunday for a three Day visit Courtesy of the african National Congress. The group billed by the Anc South africans main liberation movement As the a democracy now delegation is headed by Tran Africa director Randall Robinson a hard line anti apartheid lobbyist. Anc general Secretary Cyril ram Phosa the groups Deputy president Walter Sisulu and . Ambassador William swing greeted the Black activists at a Johannesburg Airport. The group members scheduled to meet Anc president Nelson Mandela on sunday afternoon did not make any comment to  kill 2 in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon a two people were killed and 12 others wounded in two bomb blasts that rocked the Southern Saida Region within seconds police said sunday. Police said a bomb ripped through a restaurant in the port City 24 Miles South of Beirut late saturday wounding one person. Only one minute later another charge went off in the neighbouring palestinian refugee Camp of Ain Al Hel Weh they said. The second blast showered a crowd celebrating a wedding in a Camp Yard with shrapnel instantly killing two people and wounding 11  kills self Moscow a a former communist party official has committed suicide by jumping out of the 12th-floor window of his apartment building the sixth communist official to take his life since the coup Tass reported. Dmitri Liso Volik 54, had been unemployed for some time before he jumped to his death thursday evening an Interior ministry spokesman said according to the soviet news Agency. No other details were Given. Liso Volik had worked in the party a International department which was responsible for formulating and carrying out the party a foreign  police search for body of 8th murder victim Matamoros Mexico up a mexican police were searching saturday for the body of a teen Ager believed to be the eighth victim of a couple who allegedly enticed girls to heir Rural Home then raped and killed them. The couple told police they drove a girl named Guillermina to the Banks of the Rio Grande killed her and threw her body into the River state judicial police sgt. Valentin Lara said. Lara said the victim was believed to be Guillermina Sanchez Galicia 19, of san Luis Potosi who disappeared sept. 14. A there is no doubt that there were eight a Lara said. Lara said police were waiting for information from . Officials that could link the couple to two slayings in Texas. The other victims Between the Ages of 14 and 17, were killed during the past two months and their bodies were dumped into the Rio Grande or irrigation ditches said a police spokesman Alberto Del Angel Hernandez. The other seven bodies have been recovered. The motive apparently was robbery and rape and the girls were either drowned or strangled police said. Rodolfo Infante 28, and Ana Maria Ruiz Villada 19, were arrested at their Rural Home by state judicial police and jailed. There is no death penalty in Mexico but Lara said the couple could receive 30 to 40 years in prison if convicted. Other prisoners have threatened their lives officials said. A the prisoners Are indignant about the multiple homicides committed by the couple. And have threatened to apply the principle of an Eye for an Eye and a tooth for a tooth Quot Mexico a official news Agency Noii mex quoted the commander of the state judicial police Sergio Gonzalez Hinojosa As saying. The couple at first confessed to killing eight girls police spokesman Alberto Betancourt said and then began blaming each other for the slayings. Infante n says he killed three of the girls and to Ruiz Villada killed the others. Police s both suspects took investigators to lotions where bodies were found. Del Angel Hernandez said both Susic would undergo psychiatric examinations Betancourt said the Cousin of one of i victims led officers to the couple v lived in nearby Guadalupe. Betancourt said All the victims w picked up at a downtown Plaza in m Amoros where girls frequently arrive for other mexican cities looking for jobs hoping to Cross the Border to the uni1 states