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7a ST. PETERSBURG TIMES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1988 Thatcher's view on united Europe is criticized Libya, Chad formally end war Reuten By EDWARD CODY Washington Post United States also strongly supported Habre in the war against Libya and rejoiced at his decisive victories over Libyan expeditionary forces in northern Chad in the spring of 1987. U.S. officials recently charged that Gadhafi, after a pause, has resumed supporting terrorist groups. The officials said the dissident Palestinian Sabri al-Banna, known as Abu Nidal, received Libyan help in financing an underground organization and mounting terrorist attacks.

France welcomed Monday's announcement "with great satisfaction." But it said nothing about removing from Chad the French logistics and air-defense force that backed Habre's military advances last year and has been defending the vast central African country ever since. The Ouzou Strip was occupied by Libya in 1973. Although Libya was forced to withdraw from Chad proper after the defeats last year, Libyan forces have remained in control of the Ouzou area to back Gadhafi's claim that it should remain Libyan. In the background, as well, has been Libyan support for former president Goukouni Weddeye, Habre's major rival and a pretender to his presidency. 7 EVERY PATTERN ORITAKE MAKES La on sale FOR A LIMITED TIME BRUSSELS The European Commission fired a double-barreled blast Monday at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, saying she either is naive about the European Community or wants its plans to fail.

Britain's Lord Cockfield and Peter Sutherland of Ireland, two of the 17 commissioners on the community's executive body, used speeches in Zurich and West Berlin to attack Thatcher's blunt rejection of moves toward greater West European union. Neither mentioned the British prime minister by name, but officials said their remarks responded to her speech in Belgium last month ruling out abolition of internal borders or ceding more sovereignty to the community. "Those who oppose the abolition of the internal frontiers and the frontier controls will impoverish Europe and impoverish themselves," said Cockfield, the architect of the community's campaign to create a giant barrier-free market by the end of 1992. PARIS Libya and Chad announced the resumption of diplomatic relations Monday, formally ending their long desert war and marking another step in Moammar Gadhafi's new policy of seeking friendship with his neighbors. Gadhafi and President Hissene Habre, in simultaneous communiques from Tripoli and N'Djamena, resolved to settle peacefully their longstanding dispute over a desolate border region known as the Ouzou Strip.

A cease-fire has been in effect since September, 1987. The accord fit into a pattern of Libyan diplomatic advances that appear to run counter to Reagan administration policy seeking to isolate Gadhafi because of what Washington says is Libyan sponsorship of terrorism. The United States bombed Tripoli two years ago over the terrorism issue. Although it played a secondary role to France, the Labor Party tones down leftist policies Associated Press A succession of left-wing speakers denounced the policy-review document, Social Justice and Economic Efficiency, which stresses the role of capitalism while promising greater state control of the economy. To cheers from supporters, miners' leader Arthur Scargill said the new policies were "a clear departure from the basic principles and traditions of our party." "I didn't join this party to have a yuppieland approach, to run capitalism better than the Tories," said Scargill.

"I joined this party to change this society and create a socialist alternative." The proposals, released last spring, also stipulate tax-rate ceilings of 50 percent to 60 percent, compared with 86 percent under the last Labor administration, which lost power in 1979. The proposals are the first stage of a two-year process. The rest of the review, including the party's controversial pledge to scrap nuclear weapons unilaterally, is to be published next spring, with final decisions made on the whole package at Labor's 1989 convention. The next national election must be held by 1992, but it is likely to occur in 1991. BLACKPOOL, England The annual conference of the opposition Labor Party endorsed on Monday key proposals to tone down left-wing policies in a bid to end nearly a decade of Conservative Party government.

Leftists, already soundly defeated in a bid to oust Labor leader Neil Kinnock, accused him of ditching cherished socialist principles after three successive election defeats by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The policy review includes dropping a commitment to renationalize all state-owned industries sold by Thatcher and also accepts some of her drastic curbs on the powers of labor unions. "We don't have to cling to the past, terrified to move," Labor's election campaign manager, Bryan Gould, told more than 1,000 delegates at the Winter Gardens conference center in this north England resort. "There is a bright socialist future for this party and this country if only we have the courage to think for it," Gould said. U.S.

fears Chile may cancel plebiscite sults. Pinochet's name is alone on the Associated Press ballot. If a majority votes yes, the 72-vear-old general will begin a jtmmmmwi jfx new eight-year term in March, but if a majority votes no an open presidential election is to be held next year. Most polls indicate nochet will lose. i ftlilill A Spanish lawmaker, one of m- -7 v7 mmmmmj 330 international observers at Oakley said there will be no official U.S.

observers at the elections, but private American groups have sent them. There will also be observers from other countries. In Santiago, opposition leaders and Roman Catholic Church officials said they fear violence by pro-government provocateurs during the referendum. A written declaration by the 16-party opposition coalition said: "We call on people to vote early and to remain in their homes, to reject provocations and violence, the only recourse available to the regime to create a situation of chaos that impedes the normal voting process," it said. Church sources said privately they had learned of possible violence aimed at invalidating the re -smmm: mmmw tending the plebiscite, was beaten WASHINGTON The State Department said Monday it has told President Augusto Pinochet's government of serious concern that he may cancel the vote on whether he should stay in power until 1997.

"We have heard reports that the Chilean government has plans to cancel Wednesday's plebiscite or to nullify the result," spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley told reporters. "We view them with serious concern." Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead called in Chilean Ambassador Hernan Errazuriz on Sunday, and the U.S. ambassador in Santiago spoke to Chilean officials, Oakley said. bv oolice for no apparent reason, a spokesman for the foreign delega tion said.

A oolice officer beat Enric Lei rnrn Mmmm j-f va. a member of Spain's Catalonian mmm, mmm regional parliament, with a night stick as he returned to his hotel, a spokesman for the International Parliamentary Assembly for De mocracy in Chile said. world digest VHPPRP WB" mMmrn SAVE 25-45 SAVE 25-45 Salvador politician forms party SAN SALVADOR Followers of former Culture and Communications Minister Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, who was stripped of the ruling Christian Democratic Party's presidential candidacy, have formed the Authentic Christian Movement to run in the Salvadoran elections next March, party official Juan Ramon Rosales said Monday. The breakaway move further weakens the U.S.-favored Christian Democrats, who have been feuding among themselves since being trounced by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance in legislative and mayoral elections last March. Imperial graves vandalized TOKYO Imperial graves in the old Japanese capitals of Kyoto and Nara were vandalized Monday in the first overt opposition to sympathetic media coverage of 87-year-old Emperor Hirohito's illness.

Hirohito remained in stable but critical condition after surviving the second crisis in his two-week fight against what is generally accepted to be cancer of the pancreas. Many Burmese return to work BANGKOK, Thailand Tens of thousands of Burmese government workers returned to work Monday, heeding an ultimatum by the Burmese military to end weeks of strikes in support of political change. Attendance at offices, banks, state-owned factories, transportation systems and some hotels was up sharply, according to diplomats in the Burmese capital of Rangoon. Pakistan vows to crush gunmen KARACHI, Pakistan President Ghulam Ishaq Khan vowed Monday to crush gunmen responsible for killing at least 264 people in Pakistan's worst violence in recent years. On a visit to Hyderabad, where 1 82 people were gunned down at random Friday, he said the government knew who was responsible and would eliminate them with an iron hand, the official news agency APP reported.

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