2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, March 2, 1988
World and Nation
Israelis soWfleirs omwadle IhospSltal
From Associated Press reports
JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers
broke into a Ramallah hospital
Tuesday, fired tear gas and rubber
bullets, beat doctors and took away
two Palestinian boys suspected of
throwing stones at troops, the hos
pital director said.
Soldiers shot an Arab protester in
the shoulder at Sebastiya, a West
Bank town near Nablus, hospital
officials in Nablus reported.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
said Israel was willing to exchange
for peace those parts of the occupied
territories not crucial to its security,
but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
has opposed trading any land for
peace. The two men are partners and
rivals in Israel's tenuous coalition
government.
A leaflet distributed by leaders of
what Arabs call "the uprising" the
violence that began Dec. 8 urged
Palestinians to intensify an economic
boycott of Israel through strikes and
other actions.
At Ramallah, in the occupied West
Bank eight miles north of Jerusalem,
Dr. Yassir Obeid said three soldiers
burst into the hospital with guns
drawn shortly before noon, fired tear
gas and rubber bullets and broke
several windows.
He said it was the second time in
a week that soldiers invaded the
government-run hospital, apparently
searching for protesters. He said they
arrested two boys aged 10 and 11,
one inside and the other at the
entrance.
An army spokesman confirmed the
detentions of two Palestinians, but
said an initial check showed both
occurred at the hospital's entrance.
He denied any doctors were beaten.
Arab protesters have used hospitals
as hiding places during 12 weeks of
riots in the occupied West Bank and
Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million Pales
tinians live. At least 76 Arabs have
been killed in the violence, according
to U.N. figures, and hundreds have
been wounded.
Israeli soldiers have broken into
hospitals at least seven times. Some
doctors say injured Arabs stay away
for fear of being arrested.
Obeid said soldiers struck him and
Dr. Wadah Badah with their weapons
when Obeid asked to see an order
authorizing them to enter the
hospital.
"The soldier hit me in the abdomen
with the back of his gun and said
'Get away!' w he said in a telephone
interview. "Then he hit Dr. Badah in
the chest and slammed him against
the wall."
He said he saw soldiers drag the
boys to a grove of trees behind the
hospital, bind their wrists and beat
them for about 15 minutes.
Israel's national news agency, Itim,
said 700 Palestinians have been tried
on rioting charges since the protests
began, and another 800 trials are in
progress. Fifteen of the defendants
have been acquitted, the agency said,
quoting the chief military prosecutor.
Peres mentioned the willingness to
give up territory for peace at a
meeting with American Jewish fund
raisers in Jerusalem.
He said parts of the occupied
territories were not negotiable,
including Arab east Jerusalem, but
added: "Is that a reason to remain
in Gaza?"
Two hostages released nun Lebanon
From Associated Press reports
BEIRUT, Lebanon Two Scan
dinavian U.N. relief agency workers
were freed Tuesday, less than a month
after being taken hostage in south
Lebanon, the Swedish Foreign Min
istry said.
U.N. sources said Jan Stening of
Sweden, 44, and William Jorgensen
of Norway, 58, were in good physical
condition.
Revolutionary Cells, the group
which claimed it abducted the two
U.N. Relief and Works Agency
employees, said in a statement that
they were released after being "proven
innocent."
Also on Tuesday, a statement
purporting to be from the kidnappers
of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins said
the U.S. Marine officer will be put
on trial for espionage when his
captors finish questioning him. There
was no way of authenticating the
statement.
The U.N. sources, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said Stening
and Jorgensen were freed near the
Summerland Hotel in west Beirut at
9 p.m.
Their release reduced the number
of foreign hostages in Lebanon to 23.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry in
Stockholm said Foreign Minister
Sten Anersson expressed joy and
gratitude to those who helped secure
their freedom.
In Beirut, the following handwrit
ten Arabic statement from Revolu
tionary Cells was delivered to West
ern news agency in Beirut on Tuesday
night:
"After the two employees were
proven innocent, they were released.
We ask the UNRWA agency to
reverse its decision to freeze its
activities, and we remind them that
we will not allow suspicious elements
to use international agencies for
cover."
The statement was accompanied by
one photo showing both men.
It was not clear what the statement
meant by the agency freezing its
activities, although there have been
reports the kidnappers may have been
disgruntled by unspecified changes in
the agency's operations in south
Lebanon.
The statement also did not say
what the two men were proved
innocent of, although in one of its
earlier statements it claimed they were
involved with the intelligence service
of an unidentified foreign power.
Stening and Jorgensen worked for
an agency that cares for Palestinian
refugees. They were kidnapped Feb.
5 near Sidon, provincial capital of
south Lebanon. Their agency blamed
Palestinians acting without a political
motive.
The statement on Higgins also was
delivered to a Western news agency
in Beirut without a picture of Higgins,
the commander of U.N. truce
observers in south Lebanon who was
abducted Feb. 17 near Tyre.
The typewritten statement in
Arabic purported to be from the
Organization of the Oppressed on
Earth, the name taken by the group
that claimed responsibility for
abducting Higgins, 43.
It said Israel's tough response to
12 weeks of Palestinian riots in the
occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,
and the just-completed Middle East
peace shuttle by George Shultz, the
U.S. secretary of state, "make us more
determined to try this criminal,
Higgins."
Soviet authorities set curfew
in strife-ridden southern city
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Authorities have
clamped a curfew on a southern
city where weekend rioting broke
out and tensions are still running
high because of a territorial
dispute between ethnic groups, a
Soviet official said Tuesday.
The demonstrators demanded
that Nagorno-Karabakh, which
has been part of Azerbaidzhan
since 1923, be made part of
Armenia.
Soviet authorities have indi
cated that the region would be
turned over to Armenia, but they
have not said when that might
occur.
Delvalle calls for support
WASHINGTON Panama's
president in hiding, Eric Arturo
Delvalle, called on all Panaman
ians Tuesday not to engage in any
financial transactions with the
authorities who seized power from
him last week.
The document, made public by
Delvalle's ambassador in
Washington, Juan Sosa, states
that payment of debts, taxes and
other obligations should be with
held until constitutional govern
ment is restored in Panama.
The Panamanian National
Assembly, dominated by forces
loyal to military strongman
Manuel Antonio Noriega,
deposed Delvalle last Friday after
the president had attempted to fire
Noriega as defense chief.
Concern about spread of AIDS
WASHINGTON Surgeon
General Everett Koop told a
White House panel Tuesday he is
concerned about the spread of the
AIDS virus among teenagers and
expressed outrage at suggestions
the disease cannot be spread
News in Brief
through heterosexual intercourse.
Reiterating his call for sex
education programs beginning at
the elementary grade levels, Koop
said, "I think it is quite possible
to raise a generation of adolescents
down the road that would be far
less sexually active than the
present one.
Because of the long incubation
period of the disease five years
or more Koop said he is
reluctant to rule out an outbreak
of AIDS cases in young hetero
sexual adults who contracted the
virus as teenagers.
U.S. to suspend aid to countries
WASHINGTON President
Reagan announced on Tuesday
that Panama and three other
countries long hostile to the
United States Afghanistan,
Iran and Syria have not coop
erated with U.S. efforts to stop the
smuggling of drugs to American
markets.
Under law, Reagan is required
to suspend all economic and
military aid to countries found not
to be cooperating in U.S. drug
enforcement efforts.
The decisions concerning Af
ghanistan, Iran and Syria will have
no economic impact on them,
partly because none is a U.S. aid
recipient.
Reagan will "wait and see" if
Panama's military-dominated
government improves its cooper
ation before deciding on addi
tional sanctions, said Ann Wro
bleski, a State Department official
responsible for narcotics matters.
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Reagan arrives in Belgium for NATO suemnmit meeting
From Associated Press reports
BRUSSELS, Belgium President
Ronald Reagan, urging Western
solidarity in arms talks with the
Soviets, arrived Tuesday for the first
NATO summit in six years.
In a gesture of reassurance given
in a departure statement Tuesday
morning at the White House, Reagan
pledged that American troops will
remain in Europe "so long as Euro
peans want them to stay."
He also promised to protect
NATO's interests in any arms deals
with the Soviet Union. "We will never
sacrifice the interests of this partner
ship in any agreement with the Soviet
Union," he said. '
The two-day meeting at NATO
headquarters in Brussels, beginning
Wednesday, brings together the heads
of state of the 16-member alliance.
The conference sets the stage for
Reagan's expected summit in Mos
cow with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev in late May or early June.
In his departure statement, Reagan
hailed the newly signed treaty to
abolish U.S. and Soviet intermediate
range nuclear missiles, but said "the
purpose of this summit is not self
congratulations. "Our first priority is to maintain
a strong and healthy partnership
between North America and Europe,
for this is the foundation on which
the cause of freedom so crucially,
depends," he said.
Reagan said the United States will
continue to press for a 50 percent
reduction in strategic nuclear wea
pons and a global ban on chemical
weapons.
Alton Keel, the U.S. NATO
ambassador, said on the eve of the
summit that the leaders would likely
declare that NATO places a high
priority on negotiating conventional
arms stability in Europe.
Alliance sources, declining to be
identified publicly, have said that
such a declaration may be in addition
to an overall statement which will boil
down to a renewed pledge of con-;
fidence in NATO policies and goals.
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