University Daily Kansan / Monday, January 27, 1992
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NATION/WORLD
PLO favors boycott of talks
The Associated Press
TUNIS, Tunisia — A top official of the Palestine Liberation Organization said yesterday that the Palestinians would not participate in the next round of Middle East peace talks unless the composition of their delegation was changed.
Palestinian participation in the talks, to begin this week in Moscow, would be "inopportune" under the current formula, said Yasser Abd-Rabbo, who heads the PLO's information department and is a close aide of PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
Abd-Rabbo$^a$ said the Palestinian negotiators should be part of a delegation including Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied territories and Palestinians in exile.
In peace negotiations that began in October in Madrid, Spain, and later continued in Washington, Palestinian 'presentatives were part of joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegations.
Israel refuses to negotiate directly with the PLO, which it considers a territory.
The conference sponsors "have rejected all formulas proposed by the Palestinian leadership on Palestinian
participation in the Arab-Israeli negotiations, Abd-Rabbo said at a news conference.
Syria and Lebanon already have said they would not take part in the Moscow talks. Jordan has agreed to take part.
Earlier yesterday, a member of a committee of Palestinian delegates to the Middle East peace talks said the group was recommending to the PLO that the Palestinians boycott the Moscow talks.
The talks are to deal with regional issues such as arms control, water and the environment.
Irish mourn 'Bloody Sunday'
The Associated Press
LONDON DERRY, Northern Ireland — Children carrying black flags led thousands of marchers commemorating the 20th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when British soldiers killed 13 people in a civil rights parade.
Relatives of the dead, carrying white crosses bearing the names of those killed on Jan. 20, 1972, took part in a procession that snaked peacefully through the Roman Catholic Creeggan and Bogside areas to a rally outside
the city's Guildhall.
Twenty years ago the marchers, demanding civil rights for Catholics, were trying to get to the Guildhall when they were halted and fired upon by paratroopers. The soldiers claimed they had been shot at during the illegal march.
Thirteen people were shot to death that day, and a man who was wounded died months later. An official inquiry later ruled none of the people shot had been armed.
Yesterday, police mounted a strong
security cordon around the city and used dogs to check Guildhall Square for bombs before the crowds arrived. The only army presence was a military helicopter overhead.
Gerly Adams, leader of the Irish Republican Army's legal political wing Sinn Fein, told the gatherers, "Bloody Sunday was not a mistake. It was the British government's answer to the reasonable demands for civil rights. It was premeditated, designed and executed with deadly intent."
NATION/WORLD BRIEFs
London
Iran hires Soviets to make bomb, reports say
Iran is recruiting former Soviet nuclear scientists to help build an atomic bomb, according to a report published in the Sunday Times.
The newspaper, quoting unnamed Iranian political and scientific sources, said Iran was offering $300,000 to help the state fund a rebuilding project.
The report said several Soviet scientists had visited Iran, but it was not known whether they signed contracts.
An Arabic magazine reported last month that Iran had taken advantage of the chaos in the crumbling Soviet Union and purchased three nuclear weapons.
The Al-Watan Al-Arabi also reported that Iran hired more than 50 Soviet nuclear experts at salaries of $5,000 a month to assemble components of the three bombs.
There has been no independent confirmation that Iran possesses nuclear weapons. But Western defense experts say the threat is serious in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse.
Vienna, Austria
Neo-Nazi suspect arrested in Austria
Police said yesterday they had arrested a supporter of a leading right-wing extremist in a clampdown on neo-Nazi activities.
Hans Schimanek Jr., 28, was arrested in Vienna on Saturday night on suspicion of violating a law banning Nazi and neo-Nazi activities, police said.
Gottfried Kuessel, 33, was detained Jan. 7 on suspicion of violating the same law.
Last week, police uncovered a small militant group that allegedly sought the overthrow of the government. Arms and propaganda were found in hase searches. Propaganda was found in a search related to Schimanek's arrest, the Austria Press Agency reported.
Pro-Nazi activities are illegal under Austrian law.
The government recently has proposed legislation that would make it easier to prosecute neo-Nazis.
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