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Fischer ready to play BELGRADE, Yugoslavia U.S. chess master Bobby Fischer has been in seclusion for 20 years and now that he's ready to play Boris Spassky he says the United Nations isn't going to stop him. Fischer, 49, said Friday that he wasn't concerned about the political implications of the chess match in Yugoslavia, which is under U.N. sanctions for its role in the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It was announced this week that Fischer would play a rematch of his 1972 championship game with Russian Boris Spassky.

The match is scheduled to begin Sept. 2. Press Democrat news services 5 slain in S. Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Gunmen opened fire on taxi vans in downtown Johannesburg, killing five people and wounding 11, police said Saturday. The attack Friday night came as the nation prepared for a national strike beginning Monday called by the African National Congress and its allies.

President Frederik de Klerk's government has warned that the strike and other protests planned by the ANC could spark violence because of high political tensions in the country. Meanwhile, ANC leader Nelson Mandela predicted Saturday that constitutional negotiations with the government will resume soon and he said he has received strong support from the United States and United Nations for international monitors to help defuse South Africa's political crisis. Israeli rock shock JERUSALEM An Israeli rock group has shocked survivors of the Holocaust by announcing it wants to perform at the gates of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Radio Warsaw invited the hard rock Duralex Sedlex band to Poland after the group's second album rose to number three on the station's music chart, lead singer Uri Droomer said. He decided the group would try to play at Genuine Panama Hats by Stetson and $QQ00 Dorfman Oil Ladies' Straws Western and Outback Straws by Stetson, Dorfman and Casual Seagrass Hats 5 different $1050 ea.

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"We lost the homeland," he said. "My sons have hard lives. Forty times the army broke onto our home, we have paid a dear price. "Peace is banging on our door," he said. "We do not want to lose the chance." Not everyone agrees.

Supporters of the Muslim fundamentalist movement Hamas want to continue the struggle until an Islamic state stands on all of Palestine including what is now Israel. Differences with the PLO have broken out in armed battles. Taleb, 63, carries a scar on his left shoulder from a bullet he took while defending his village, which was swallowed up with the founding of Israel in 1948. Recently, his 14-year-old son Awni was shot in the forehead with a rubber bullet in a clash with Israeli soldiers. A resident of the Shati refugee camp, where 50,000 Palestinians are crammed into tiny houses on a dusty strip between Gaza City and the Mediterranean Sea, Taleb is tired of the Palestinians' 44-year-old struggle against the Jewish state.

Many in Shati are unemployed. Young men spend the hot, sticky days playing soccer and organizing gangs in the Palestinian intefadeh, the uprising against Israeli occupation that has dragged on for 4'2 years. Children as young as seven are ready to throw stones at any stranger. But amid the monotony, the uncollected garbage and the open sewers along the narrow camp walkways, the Palestinians of Shati are debating the prospects of peace with Israel. "The peace talks are like the breeze blowing from the sea," said Dr.

A. Holbert, OD Dr. J. E. Fitipatrick, OD 545-7350 Coddigntown Center iwiri Hours: M-SlO-9, Sunll-6 Deeb Sukar, musing about the U.S.-backed negotiations that Palestinians and Arab nations have been conducting with Israel.

Sukar, 33, is a supporter of Fatah, the mainstream faction of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat. It backs the peace talks. "I accept autonomy and elections," said Sukar, who hopes that new developments will lead to a a Palestinian government that will have limited rule over Gaza and the West Bank until their final status is negotiated. For Sukar and many other Palestinians, the ultimate goal is an independent state in the occupied territories. Others, however, want all of Palestine, including the land that is now Israel.

"Palestine is ours from river to sea," said Sukar's neighbor, Kamal Dayef, a 54-year-old photographer. "This is the way, to have more children, to liberate Palestine even after 100 years," he said, showing Big news for small feet. Stride LB The Press Democrat off pictures of his 14 daughters and 1 1 sons. Taleb, a fighter who has tired of war, has his own sizeable flock 11 sons and seven daughters. But the toll the uprising has taken on his sons a total of seven wounds and six jail terms has convinced him of the need for a speedy and peaceful resolution of problems with the Jews.

The Taleb family lives in five small rooms. Taleb is disappointed that two children are unemployed and one gave up medical studies in Yugoslavia. Four others have jobs; the rest are too young to work. Taleb fought in 1948, in the 1956 war when he spent four months in an Israeli prison, and finally in the 1967 Six Day War, when the West Bank and Gaza were captured. He worked collecting scrap metal in both Israel and Gaza until the Palestinian uprising broke out.

He said if Rabin was serious about peace, "Israel must withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza." 1 Searchers find crash site of Thai plane Associated Press KATMANDU, Nepal Army helicopters on Saturday found the wreckage of a Thai Airways jetliner carrying 113 people that crashed into a forested slope of the Himalayas. Nagendra Ghimire, deputy airport manager in Katmandu, said the debris "was scattered around but the helicopters could not land. There is no word yet on survivors." The site where the plane crashed Friday afternoon is about 40 miles northwest of Katmandu. It can be reached only after a 10-hour walk from the nearest town, Bidur. Policemen were headed for the site on foot.

Monsoon rains hampered visibility for helicopter crews. The Airbus A310-300 jet was carrying 99 passengers and 14 crew members from Bangkok, Thailand to the Nepalese capital. They included 11 people from the United States; a relative of Nepal's prime minister; the son of the mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Yukio Onto, Japan's cultural attache in Katmandu. "3 tS-- Our store's full of great-looking, long-lasting Stride Rite shoes and sneakers in lots of sizes and widths. And our expert fitters will make sure your child gets the perfect fit.

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