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Monday, April 27, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Marxist rivals reunite with Arafat, but peace not likely to come soon
ALGIERS, Algeria — The Palestinians’ "parliament in exile" ended a stormy session yesterday with factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization reunited under Yasser Arafat but with a Middle East peace settlement looking more remote than ever.
For the first time since they split four years ago, Arafat, chairman of the PLO, and his leading Marxist rivals, Nayef Hawmathe and George Habash, appeared hand-in-hand and smiling as the 18th National Council. The National Council came to a close amid prolonged applauses.
Arafat once again survived efforts by Syria's President Hafez Assad and Syrian-led radicals to oust him, but he paid a heavy
price, bowing to demands that he abandon his relationship with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Apparently with strong backing from Syria and Algeria, Hawatmeh and Habash said Saturday that if Arafat took leadership of the PLO's new-found unity, he would have to accept a Palestine National Council order to abandon his relationship with Egypt.
The final agreement was endorsed early yesterday by all the PLO's rival factions and confirmed Arafat as chairman.
Arafat's right-hand man, deputy PLO commander Khalil Wazir, told reporters that Arafat thought Palestinian unity took priority over relations with Egypt.
1st anniversary of Chernobyl stirs protests
LONDON — From Japan to Sweden, where scientists first alerted the world of Chernobyl, demonstrators rallied yesterday on the first anniversary of the Soviet nuclear disaster that sent radiation drifting around the world.
The biggest protests were in Europe, where soaring radiation levels followed the April 26, 1986, accident, stirring feelings of panic and prompting authorities to disband amounts of suspect food and rulks.
Violence broke out at a Dutch rally, where 39 people were injured, but the demonstrations overall were peaceful.
In the Communist East, Czechoslovak police arrested five Westerners who protested in Prague, including a West German, a Swede and an Austrian who draped a huge banner across the facade of the National Museum, witnesses said.
In the United States, small demonstrations and memorials were held in Chicago and Vermont.
Thirty-one Soviets were killed and hundreds were injured in the fire and explosion at the Chernobyl reactor. About 135,000 people were evacuated from areas near the plant in the Ukraine.
Israelis commemorate Holocaust victims
TEL AVIV, Israel — At 8 a.m., sirens sounded throughout the Jewish state for two minutes yesterday, and Israelis interrupted all activity to remember the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Holocaust Day, officially called Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943 when Jews armed with homemade weapons battled German tanks in the Polish capital.
The siren blast opened a day marked with somber ceremonies, sad songs and tears.
Officials noted a greater interest in the World War II Holocaust than in previous years, especially among young Israeliis. They attributed it to the Nazi war crimes trial of Ukrainian-born John Demanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker.
In Jerusalem, a handful of followers of right-wing legislator Meir Kahane gathered at the residence of President Chaim Herzog to protest Herzog's recent trip to West Germany. The group burned a West Germanflag, but there were no reports of arrests or violence.
Across the Country
Former CIA director in critical condition
Casey, who underwent surgery for brain cancer in December, was admitted about 2 p.m. Saturday to the intensive care unit at Glen Cove Community Hospital.
GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Formen CIA Director William J. Casey was in critical condition yesterday at a suburban New York hospital where he was admitted the day before for treatment of pneumonia, a spokeswoman said.
Hospital spokeswoman Joan Bass said she could not comment on the nature of his treatment but said he was conscious when he was admitted.
Casey's admitting diagnosis was aspiration pneumonia, caused by fluid in the lungs, she said. All patients in the intensive care unit are listed in critical condition, she said.
Search continues for victims of collapse
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A small community of workers spent a four day yesterday looking for missing friends in the wreckage of a collapsed apartment building while officials and counselors tried to help the searchers cope with exhaustion, anger and despair.
Mayor Thomas Bucci's office listed the death toll at 15, with 11 bodies pulled from the rubble of the L'Ambiance Plaza and four others spotted and presumed dead. Thirteen other workers were still unaccounted for yesterday.
From Kansan wires.
Weather
From the KANSAN Weather Service
LAWRENCE FORECAST
Skies will be partly cloudy today with a high near 82 degrees and winds from the northeast at 5-15 mph. Tonight, the skies will remain partly cloudy with a low near 54 degrees. Tomorrow, temperatures will drop into the low 70s with partly cloudy skies.
the low %s with party close
EXTENDED FORECAST:
Wednesday mostly sunny 80°
Thursday sunny 82°
Friday chance for showers 83°
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