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Disagreements on appointees delay Israeli ministers' job swap
JERUSALEM — Wrangling over political appointees delayed the long-planned job swap yesterday between Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
The two leaders failed to resolve their differences at a 45-minute meeting, and it was unclear when they would go through with their agreement to exchange positions.
The surprise delay appeared to be an effort by Peres' left-learning Labor Party to wrest what concessions it could from Shamir's right-wing Likud bloc before ceding leadership of the government.
Shamir had been scheduled to present his Cabinet to Parliament and be sworn in as Israel's ninth prime minister. He was to hand over the foreign ministry to Peres in keeping with a September 1984 accord which followed an electoral stalemate leaving each party too weak to govern without the other.
Shamir told reporters there had been no change in the rival party's positions as he emerged from the session at the prime minister's office. He declined further comment.
Uzi Bar-Am, secretary general of Peres' party, told reporters at a news conference his party was committed to rotation. But he accused Likud of bad faith in negotiations about the government appointments.
Holocaust author receives Nobel
OSLO, Norway — Elie Wiesel, who survived the Nazi Holocaust to become the voice of its victims and a champion of dignity for all people, was chosen yesterday to receive the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize.
Wiesel, 58, lost his parents and younger sister in Nazi death camps during World War II. He has chronicled
the committee's citation said, "Elie Wiesel has emerged as one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world."
the suffering of the Jews under Hitler and their problems in the Soviet Union today.
In 1944, Wiesel was among 15,000 Jews deported by Germans and Hungarian fascists from his native town of Sighet in what is now Romania.
He later worked as a journalist, traveling to Israel to cover the foundation of the Jewish state for the French newspaper L'Arche. He was Paris correspondent for the Tel Aviv newspaper Yedioth Ahronot in 1952 and in 1956 reported for it on the United Nations.
He applied for U.S. citizenship in 1956. The first of his nearly two dozen books, published in Yiddish in Buenos Aires that year, was called "And the World Has Remained Silent."
A condensed version appeared in French as "La Nuit" and was published in the United States as "Night." His book "The Jews of Silence; A Personal Report On Soviet Jewry" appeared in 1966.
President Reagan presented Wiesel with the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement on April 19, 1985. At the same time, Reagan was planning to visit a cemetery at Bitburg, West Germany, in which some of the dead were members of the Nazi SS elite guard.
Wiesel said in a plea during the ceremony, "That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS."
Aguino orders release of rebels
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino ordered the release yesterday of two communist rebels pending trial, but a captured guerrilla commander remained in custody under a compromise aimed at resuming stalled peace talks.
Press secretary Teodoro Benigno said the action underscored the effort of the government to continue the pursuit of peaceful efforts to arrive at a negotiated settlement.
Under the arrangement with attorneys for rebel
leader Rodolfo Salas, the government agreed to release his wife, Josefina Cruz, and bodyguard Jose Concepción without bond pending trial on rebellion charges that carry a maximum penalty of death.
The 38-year-old Salas remains under military custody and will drop his petition to the Supreme Court demanding his release before trial.
The three were arrested Sept. 29 outside a downtown Manila hospital, where Salas had undergone medical treatment. Rebel negotiators said the arrests threatened talks which began Aug. 5 to end the 17-year communist insurgency, but Aquino rejected demands for Salas' release.
The military believes Salas is the current or former head of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines and commander-in-chief of the 17,000-member New Peoples Army.
Death toll climbs in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador — Relief workers have found a shantytown where up to 200 people were buried by a mudslide unleashed by last week's earthquake, raising the estimated death toll to nearly 1,200, officials said yesterday.
The mudslide was not discovered until Monday night, 72 hours after the quake wracked the capital of 1 million people. Dozens of relief workers struggled yesterday to unearth the bodies, undaunted by aftershocks, which continued to shake the city.
"It was as if the earth was lifted all at once," said Pedro Alvaro Acosta, whose mother was buried by the mud in the poor Santa Marta neighborhood of San José. The doctors said the slum was buried beneath 25 feet of mud.
Alvarado, his arms and face caked with dried mud because of his own rescue effort, said most of those killed were women and children. Most of the men were out working, he said. Alvarado's statements could not officially be confirmed.
Jose Antonio Santeruvas, a Spaniard at the scene, said "Since the early morning we have been here, trying to find the remains of the families that lived here."
Santeruus worked in the blazing afternoon sun with 12 other firefighters from his country.
One elderly woman said most of the people living in the Santa Marta slum were fleeing the seven-year-old civil war in the country.
Court won't reopen 1972 case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court had the last word on the confirmation of its chief justice yesterday, deciding not to reopen a 1922 case that caused a dispute during William Rehqunit's Senate hearings.
There was no indication whether Rehnquist participated in the case, but the court does not routinely reveal votes in such matters.
The court refused to reconsider the case which was decided in June 1972 on a 5-4 vote, with Rehquisten — then a brand new associate justice — casting the key vote.
The court, in the case called Laird vs. Tatum, ruled against antiwar activists who were seeking to bar the Army's surveillance of civilians.
Rehnquist refused to disqualify himself from the 1972 decision even though he had been involved in the matter while working in the Nixon Justice Department.
Rehqunit, who was sworn in last month as chief justice, was strongly criticized for the action during his confirmation hearings. Opponents said his decision to take part in the case was a breach of judicial ethics.
Attorneys argued that new information surfaced during the confirmation hearings that showed Rehnquist, as a Justice Department official, participated in drafting a plan to deal with protests. The plan allegedly included gathering of intelligence by the military.
From Kansan wires.
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