NATION AND WORLD
University Dailv Kansan. November 11. 1983
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat tours Tripoli as fighting continues between his men and rebels led by Abu Moussa and backed by Syria.
Weinberger repudiates Arafat and PLO
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday wrote off Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, saying that Arafat's defeat in Lebanon would be "important" to the overall Mideast conflict.
"I don't think the PLO is an effective military force any more and, therefore, I don't think whoever happens to be at the head of it is of particular importance in the large strategic sense," he said.
A PLO faction opposed to what it has said it views as Arafat's moderate stance toward Israel is besieging PLO forces in the Tripoli area of northern Lebanon with artillery and tank support from Syria. The Persian Gulf oil states have been trying to arrange a cease-fire.
THE STATEMENT by Weinberger came as a surprise because the PLO is supported by Jordan and the Gulf states, with which the Reagan administration has been trying to forge an alliance.
The United States never has recognized the PLO and has not dealt with Arafat or his organization officially, abiding by Israel's wishes.
Unofficially, however, Washington has viewed Arafat as a moderate who perhaps could be persuaded by King Hussein of Jordan to endorse President Reagan's 14-month-old Middle East peace plan. As a result, he balanced a Palestinian homeland in the Israeli-occupied West Bank "in association with Jordan."
Diplomatic sources dismissed Weinberger's comments as insignificant and called them a "cheap way" to win over Israel's American supporters since the beginning of the war, or hisILITY on the ground." He has been criticized by Israelis as being too pro-Arab.
THE PENTAGON chief made the remarks in an interview with foreign journalists that was beamed by satellite to five European countries.
during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon, but many PLO forces stayed in the Tripoli area, where two Palestinian refugee camps were located, and returned to Lebanon earlier this year.
Israel forced Arafat and 10,000 Palestinian fighters to evacuate Beirut
On another issue, Weinberger appeared to contradict Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, who said Wednesday that the United States might have to reconsider the decision to withdraw 1,400 nuclear warheads from Europe if the Soviet Union took advantage of that unilateral restraint.
Department said the nation's retail sales climbed 1.1 percent in October, breaking through the $100 billion level for the first time.
The switch to more expensive beef might last for months, now that the surplus of cattle driven to market by the summer heat and high feed prices is disappearing, analysts say. Cattle prices went up 2.9 percent in October.
October business inflation moderate
Food prices overall climbed a strong 1.1 percent in October, the biggest surge since April, primarily because food prices climbed for the first time since June.
By United Press International
MORE THAN half the increase was for automobiles while the major category of construction materials suffered a third month of decline. Nevertheless, the month's improvement is enough to encourage retailers to prepare for their best Christmas season in several years.
The Producer Price Index — measuring prices businesses pay each other for nearly 3,400 commodities — was 287.9 in 1908, equivalent to a cost of $2,879 for goods for which business paid $1,000 in 1967.
Dealers found fuel oil prices up 4.2 percent. But natural gas prices dropped 2.8 percent and wholesale gasoline prices fell 0.2 percent, registering their second consecutive monthly decline.
WASHINGTON — Wholesale prices rose 0.3 percent in October, resulting in another month of modest business inflation despite sharp increases for meat and vegetables and more expensive beef the Labor Department said yesterday.
The index edged up only 0.6 percent from January through October figured at 1.4%.
Even if November and December's expected acceleration in food prices takes the annual rate up around 1.4 percent, as many analysts expect, 1983 would still have the least business inflation in 19 years.
IN TOKYO with President Reagan.
White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said, "The October producer prices showed the foundation for the recovery is strong."
In a separate report, the Commerce
Poultry prices that went up along with the summer's heat damage turned around in October, down 6.6 percent. Hogs were 3.1 percent cheaper.
The price of corn, about 90 percent of which is used as livestock feed, dropped 1.7 percent during the month. Wheat also dropped from 48.3 percent to also dropped in October by 0.9 percent.
In a separate report, the department said Detroit's 1984 model cars were an average $221.70 more expensive than 1983 models for retail buyers.
AUTO PRICES were up 0.8 percent for dealers.
A scarcity of grapes and strawberries and a delayed apple harvest took fresh fruit prices up an enormous 18.5 percent for the month.
Raw materials prices dropped 0.2 percent in October, displaying the same sensitive reaction to excess light that characterized the recession.
Heineken kidnappers receive news blackout
By United Press International
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Authorities yielded yesterday to a demand for a news blackout from the kidnappers of Freddie Heineken after they threatened to kill the multimillionaire police did not halt their investigation.
Heinkeen, 60, head of the brewery started by his grandfather, and his chauffeur were abducted Wednesday evening by three hooded gunmen outside his office in the heart of Amsterdam.
Brewery spokesman Robert Elrink said a letter to police printed in the Hague was the first communication from the kidnappers.
sand, or the mudhit, he 'neats'
In the interviews he recounts,
Heinken and the police have to accept the demand." Elfrink said.
"No further information can be released concerning the timing or the content of the message."
He said that the kidnappers had promised to make contact with Heineken Breweries and that the company was willing to buy its chairman's release but declined to say whether ransom was demanded.
"In the letter, the kidnappers demanded that no further statements
EARLIER, in a telephone call to the Rotterdam Algemeine Dagblad newspaper, a man claiming to represent the kidnappers said Heinekens and his chauffeur would be killed if police did not halt their search. Police and company spokesmen declined to comment on the threat.
should be made to the media." he said.
Heineken was kidnapped by three hooded gunmen as he walked to his car from his office that overlooks the 120-year old brewery. Ab Doderer, Heineken's chauffeur, attempted to rescue his employer, but was hit on the head. Then both were bundled into a truck.
Police asked a taxi driver who reported the incident to chase the truck until a squag car could take over. The taxi driver, Fred Wuyts, 32, and a passenger who was in the taxi, followed the truck until it stopped a few minutes later while the kidnappers transferred their captives to a waiting car. Wuyts said he drove away when a gunman threatened to shoot him.
Heineken controls one of the most successful family businesses in the world.
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