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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday january 8, 1992 . Vote against Israel draws arabs Back to talks Amman Jordan a the Arab delegations will return to Washington to resume Middle East peace talks now that the . Security Council has condemned israelis planned deportation of 12 palestinians officials said tuesday. The 15-member Security Council voted unanimously monday night against the expulsion orders calling them a violation of International Law and asking Israel to halt All deportations and allow expelled people to return. The United states pointedly refused to use its veto Power to shield Israel. Jordan a chief negotiator Abdul Salam maj Ali said tuesday his delegation would resume the talks and a Plo spokesman said the rest of the Arab delegates a palestinians syrians and lebanese a would return shortly to Washington. Bassam Abu Sharif the political adviser to Plo chairman Yasser Arafat in Tunisia said in a Telephone interview that a within the next 24 hours All Arab delegations including palestinians will be going to Washington to resume peace talks with  in Jerusalem a senior palestinian close to its negotiators said the palestinian delegation would leave for Washington today. A senior Plo official said Arafat told aides after meeting in Amman with jordanian prime minister Zeid bin Shaker that the palestinians would return for the talks because he considered the . Resolution  a the Resolution is part of an open Battle Between the palestinians and israelis and we intend to continue the Battle during negotiations Quot the Plo official quoted Arafat As saying. Although the israeli delegation has returned to Washington for resumption of the talks the Arab delegations stayed away after Israel announced the tanned expulsions. However the Arab delegations and been expected to return to the talks once they won a . Condemnation. The Mideast peace talks began in Madrid in late october. They resumed last month in Washington but broke Down Over procedural issues such As How the delegations were to be seated and where future talks would be held. Nasser Al Kiowa Palestine a . Observer told the Security Council in new York before the vote on monday night that a Strong rebuke of Israel would encourage arabs to attend the talks. After reviewing Security Council Resolution 726, jordanian and Palestine liberation organization officials in Amman issued a statement saying a the jordanian and palestinian sides find it an expression of the responsibility Felt by the International Community. Toward the palestinian people and their National legitimate  the . Resolution also reflects the International Community a concern for the Success of the Middle East peace process a jordanian foreign minister Kamel Abu Jaber and Yasser Abedrabbo a member of the plots ruling executive committee said in the statement. Imelda Marcos decides to run for president of Philippines Manila Philippines up former first lady Imelda Marcos who returned in november to face charges of tax evasion and massive fraud said tuesday she will run for the philippine presidency. After a court appearance in which she pleaded not guilty to six counts of graft the widow of the ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos told reporters she would seek the presidential nomination of the opposition Nacion Alisia party. A after months of direct consultations with our poor and oppressed citizens i have decided to. Seek the presidency a she said. A i submit myself to the Nacion Alista convention to the will of the political leaders who will represent the  her announcement came As several major parties a including the Nacion Alista party a Lay in shambles. President co Razon Aquino has already announced that she will not seek re election and no solid front runner has emerged in the presidential race which will he decided in May. The former first lady is notorious for her extravagance during her husbands 20-year Rule. She faces some 80 criminal charges for allegedly helping to loot More than $5 billion from the country before her husband was chased out of Power in a 1986 popular revolt. Hut the family name carries a lot of weight in several areas of the country especially Ferdinand Marcos a Home province of 1 Locos Norte. Despite her past analysts say mrs. Marcos could become a serious candidate with her vast wealth providing ample funding for a Campaign War Chest. She denied having political ambitions when she returned nov. 4 from nearly six years of exile in the United Imelda Marcos Waves to supporters after announcing her candidacy. States but immediately began barnstorming the country holding political rallies and distributing pictures of herself to fawning supporters. Quot from my trips All Over the Philippines there is a cry for someone to help those in misery and help end the suffering of our people Quot she told reporters tuesday. Mrs. Marcos said she had yet to decide on a running mate but indicated she May ask former ally and businessman Eduardo Cojuangco to share the ticket. Cojuangco the estranged Cousin of Aquino has launched his own presidential bid and said monday he would not give up his ambition for the top Post. Worlds. Africa militants want Simon concerts cancelled from wire reports Johannesburg South Africa a a Small group of Black militants said tuesday it might use violence to Block concerts in South Africa this month by american Singer Paul Simon. The Azania youth organization met tuesday with Simon a tour managers to try to persuade them to cancel the shows which open saturday in Johannesburg. The group says political conditions have not changed enough to drop sanctions that kept International stars from visiting South Africa. There was no immediate comment from tour officials or the White led government. The main Black organization the african National Congress has endorsed the lifting of cultural sanctions against South Africa and supports the tour by Simon whose a Grace Ianda album featured Black South african  to boost patrols Paris a the number of police and Security officers patrolling the Paris subway and commuter train systems will be boosted from 480 to 800 to fight crime and drug abuse Premier Edith Cresson announced monday. She said the 320 police reinforcements would be added in stages throughout the regional transit network which includes 13 subway lines and several Railroad lines. She also said the entire transit Security operation would be placed under a unified police command. The existing Force includes 400 policemen and a separate 80-Strong Security Force controlled by the transit Agency. Cresson in a communique said special emphasis would be placed on Security during the night and on . Physicist honoured Jerusalem the 1992 Wolf prize for physics will be awarded to Princeton University professor Joseph h. Taylor for his contributions to radio astronomy and his discovery of an orbiting radio Pulsar the Wolf foundation announced tuesday. The $100,000 prize recognizes the american physicists work with orbiting pulsars in which he came up with the Only experimental evidence so far for gravitational Waves a statement said. Radio pulsars Are spinning magnetized Neutron stars that function As extremely accurate clocks. Taylor born in Philadelphia in 1941, was educated at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and received his doctorate in physics from Harvard University. The Wolf prizes were established in 1975 by the late Ricardo Wolf to a promote science and Art for the Benefit of  Wolf was a German born physicist who immigrated to Cuba before world War i and served As its ambassador to Israel where he died in 1981.ex-mayor of Nice jailed Grenoble France a the former mayor of Nice who fled to Uruguay to escape arrest for corruption was barred for life from holding Public office monday and received a one year prison term. The court found Jacques Bedecin guilty of misusing Public funds. He was also ordered to pay nearly $480,000 in fines and civil damages. Bedecin a who has been living in South America since september 1990, forfeited All rights of Appeal by being  in umbrella murder Case found dead Sofia Bulgaria Fum a retired internal ministry Gen. Slogan Sivov was found dead monday just two Days before he was to appear in court on charges he destroyed files on the infamous Quot umbrella murder Quot ease bulgarian National radio reported. Sivov was accused of destroying bulgarian intelligence files on dissident writer Georgi Markov who claimed shortly before he died in London in 1978 that he had been poisoned by a Man w to jabbed him in the leg with the Point of an umbrella. The ease has been scheduled to be heard wednesday in the military division of the country a supreme court. A former Kab officer Gen. Gen. Oleg d. Kalugin is to appear As a witness on the supposed collaboration Between the Kab and the bulgarian Security forces in the murder of Markov press reports said. Also indicted is retired Gen. Vladimir Todorov chief of the first directorate of foreign intelligence who had been a subordinate of Lvov. 1 he body of Savov was found in front of a memorial to anti nazi resistance fighters killed during world War 11 in his native Village of Loisil Chevy in Southern Bulgaria. Savov had been a member of a guerrilla detachment Active in the area during the War. Savov was Deputy minister of internal affairs in charge of foreign intelligence until the collapse of the communist regime of Todor Zsivkov in november 1989  
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