NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 29, 1984
Page 12
Arafat remains as PLO head
By United Press International
AMMAN, Jordan - Yasser Arafat,
hailed by followers as "our leader
until victory," yesterday withdrew
his resignation as Palestine Liber-
ation Organization chairman.
"I will remain in the leadership and stay where I am in order to shoulder my responsibilities because I am needed." Arafat told jubilant Palestine National Council, the Palestinian parliament-in-exile.
Arafat has quit the chairmanship of the PLO executive committee every year, along with the 14 other members, in preparation for the selection of a new panel. Arafat always has been reappointed.
BUT HE DELIVERED his resignation on Tuesday — a day ahead of
schedule — in what he later said we part of an orchestrated move to show he still commanded the support of the council despite a challenge to his leadership by Syrian-backed dissidents.
At least 10 members of the executive committee reportedly rose after the speech to demand that he be dismissed if the bitterly divided guerrilla group
Shouting "You are our leader until victory," council delegates and observers from Palestinian refugee camps hoisted Arafat onto their shoulders and carried him to the podium yesterday when he announced he was retracting his resignation.
"I say, in all objectivity and from my position as a leader, that when I submitted my resignation I wanted to prove that the conspiracy could not
force me to resign," Arafat said.
"IT IS NOT the right of any Arab country, or any Arab parasite to say who the leader of this organization should be." said Arafat.
ization should be, said Arafat. The council meeting, convened Nov. 22 to map a new strategy in the PLO's fight for a Palestinian state, has been overshadowed by the dispute between Arafat and four PLO factions of the Damascus-based "National Alliance."
The dissidents boycotted the council sessions, charging that Arafat is moving to join Jordan's King Hussein in a U.S. Middle East peace initiative that does not envision an independent Palestinian nation.
The conflict exploded last December when the rebels staged a bloody uprising with Syrian help and infiltrated government buildings in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
By United Press International
Peru calls state of emergency
LIMA Peru — President Fernando Belaudre decreed a state of emergency and suspended civil rights yesterday on the eve of a nationwide general strike caused by a leftist labor federation to protest Peru's severe economic crisis.
The decree, announced in the El Peruan legal journal, allows police to make arrests and search homes of unauthorized public and private meetings.
Balaunte said he imposed the 30-day state of emergency to "guarantee social peace and order during the strike."
Labor leaders responded by vowing to proceed with the strike – the second this year and sixth since Belaudte took power in 1890 the prohibition of public gatherings.
Cars with megaphones mounted on their roofs cruised through the streets of the capital burglar calls for workers to stay home today and bus drivers hung signs reading "National Strike" in the windows of their vehicles.
In a prelude to the strike, about 150,000 teachers staged a daylong hunger strike yesterday to protest a new law that they say reduces pension benefits. Classes were suspended.
The teachers are expected to be joined in today's walkout by bus
drivers, miners, bankers, farmers and construction workers. Farmers have said they will block highways as part of the protest.
The strike was called by General Workers Confederation, a leftist labor federation, to protest the country's severe economic problems, including record inflation of more than 100 percent.
Sixty percent of the country's work force is either jobless or earning less than the minimum wage of $50 a month. Consumer buying power has declined rapidly as the government and fails to follow masterly measures set forth in an agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
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MOSCOW (UPU) — The Soviet parliament yesterday unanimously approved the 1985 economic plan, including an increased defense budget, and adjoined after less than 14 hours of discussion.
"The laws of the U.S.S.R. on the plan and budget, with due regard for the remarks and amendments tabled by the deputies, have been adopted unanimously," the official Tass news agency said on the
second afternoon of the semiannual meeting.
After its unanimous approval of the laws, the economic plan for 1985 and the $49 billion national budget to finance the plan, the
Supreme Soviet closed, Tass said. The total discussion in the parliament leading up to the rout was an evening took Bun, 14, hours.
The 1,500 deputies of the Supreme Soviet next gave unanimous approval to all decrees issued by President Konstantin I. since the brief spring session of parliament in April, Tass reported
The budget included an allocation of $22.8 billion for defense in 1985, a $2.4 billion increase over the 1984 figure.
The Soviet military budget is thought to be in the range of U.S. spending, which is around the $300 billion mark.
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