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TV Tl4 1 4t r-r 'r "-v i i i 3 WIUMERS SELECTED EACH WEEK vjiwc! PUWEVERVDA li 01 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1988 25 cents SIDE Hijack suspect at PL meet 4- hr jL Vt ey, ip pi WASHINGTON (UPI) The appearance of Mohammed Abu Abbas, alleged mastermind of Ihe 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship, at the Palestine Liberation Organization meeting in Algeria indicates the group has refused to renounce terrorism, a State Department official said Sunday The official, who monitors developments in the Middle East, said key department officials found it unfortunate that Abbas was playing a prominent role at this weekends conference of the PLOs parliamentary body, the Palestine National Council The exclusion of Abbas, ho is a known terrorist, would have been a gesture to us that the PLO is moving away from terrorism, the official said But his presence shows they are not serious about disavowing such violence Abbas, who was seated in the front row when the Palestine National Council conference opened Saturday, is one of 14 members of the PLOs ruling executive committee He allegedly planned and supervised the October 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which Leon Klinghoffer of New York, who was confined to a wheelchair, was shot the head and thrown overboard aircraft intercepted in nud- flight the EgyptAir plane that Abbas had boarded and ordered it to land in Italy. Although the United States requested his extradition. Italian authorities said Abbas had a diplomatic passport and set him free The Congress passed a 1985 law that bars any American official from negotiating with the PLO until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israels right to exist and accepts peace-for-territory exchanges found in Resolutions Reports Sunday from Algiers indicated that PLO leader Yasser Arafat was pressuring hardline opponents to endorse the U.N resolutions Mohammed Abu Abbas FEATURE: Bishops meet underway, Ug 2 WOMEN: Barbara Bush. No-frills lady, Pg 10 Study says abuse deaths higher than stats say DIGEST PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Children may be dying from parental abuse and neglect in far greater numbers than national welfare statistics suggest, according to a report released this weekend A study by the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse presented during a convention by the National Association of Sociai Workers, said the number of reported child abuse and neglect deaths increased from 899 to 1,132 between 1985 and 1987 New York led the nation in child abuse and neglect fatalities during fiscal year 1986 wnth 181 reported deaths Texas reported 129 deaths. Louisiana reported 110, Ohio was fourth with 50, South Carolina reported 46 deaths and Pennsylvania reported 44 However, after surveying welfare departments from alt 50 states, researchers have concluded that thousands of child abuse deaths nationwide each year have been nusclassified as accident, disease or suicide The report also said about 500 of the 10,000 of the deaths attributed last year to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome could have been listed as ahuse or neglect deaths.

1 Funeral slated Tuesday for World War II hero WASHINGTON Final rites will be held in Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday for Gen Lyman Lemnitzer, the Honesdale native who was one of the great American military leaders of World War II He died of kidney failure Saturday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, lie was 89 The former war hero and diplomat retired from active duty in July 1969, after serving as Army chief of staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and as head of the military arm of NATO for two years When the entered World. War II. he took part the planning for the Allied Invasion of North Africa He joined Gen. Mark Clark 3 sycret mission to contact friendly Freneh forces there prior to the inv asixm. The two officers were sent by submarine, but were nearly caught by I Please turn to Page 13) Gen.

Lyman Lemnitzer Marcos backers confront Dole 130 lbs. of drug found NEW YORK (UPI) Police and Customs agents acting on a tip from airport officials in Arizona used dogs to sniff out 1.10 pounds of marijuana stuffed in six suitcases on a TWA flight to New York, authorities saic( Sunday. But no one eve'r came to claim the luggage. They just kept spinning around" on the carousel at LaGuardia Airport for about three hours while the law enforcement officers waited in vain for someone to pick up the shipment, said Lloyd Schwalb. a spokesman for the Port Authority police Dragnet laid for gangs LOS ANGELES (UPI) One man was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting in Pacific Palisades early Sunday while a task force of 200 police officers dropped the Hammer on gang members across town in South Central Los Angeles, authorities said.

Detectives from the police department's specialized CRASH unit formed specifically to combat gang violence were assigned to investigate the 12.20a drive-by shooting on Pacific Coast Highway south of Sunset Boulevard, Sgt Rick Walkersaid One man as killed in the attack and another as wounded, alker said Doctors rip rock videos CHICAGO (UPI) The American A( ademy ol Pediatrics warned Sunday that popular rock videos may be bad for teenagers health Noting that teenagers today atch an average of two hours of rock videos pet-day. the physicians said. Music ideos may represent a new art form, but we believe it is one that contains an excess ol sexism, lolence. substance abuse, suicide and sexual behavior Dump fire ousts 30 clans MILTON, N.Y. (UPI) Afire smoldering an upstate landfill, apparently operated without a permit, sent toxic fumes into the air for a third day Sunday, keeping 30 families aw av from their homes, otficials said The families.

In ing ithin a hall-mile ol the landfill in the Saratoga County tow ut Milton, were ordered from their home" as a precaution Friday evening alter texts showed the smoke wax toxic jww v' TK 4 rJ S' 4 j' 3 Dems mull southern strategy WASHINGTON (UPI) Democrats pondering the partys fifth loss in the last six presidential elections said Sunday their nominating process probably is duo for an overhaul so their nominee at least can talk to the South While Democrats took comfort in the fact that they picked up one seat in their Senate majority and five seats for their House majority, they were licking their wounds over the partys fifth loss of the White House in the last six tries. Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk, on NBCs "Meet the Press, said he did not anticipate any intra-party blood-letting over the election and suggested the outcome was the result of perceived prosperity and relative peace and people basically voting for the present they knew rather than the future they were uncertain about In looking toward 1992. however. Democrats said their party needs to reshape the way they choose a nominee and the new process must focus more intensely on the South Democratic pollster Peter Hart said the problem for the party now is to find someone who can talk" to Southerners, adding. If you can't talk to them, then youre not going to carry them Sen -elect Charles Robb.

I) a said, It's very clear. that you have to appeal to the South You can't give up 155 electoral votes right off the top and expect to win the election lie told AIH' -This Week with Oa id Brinkley" the party needs not only to restructure the nominating process but to hone its message for general election campaigns so the same values, the same priorities, would be evident and the same choices would be made but we have been singularly unsuccessful Without a message that reaches middle-class voters with hopes of "upward mobility." Robb said. "Were going to continue to in the majority of elections at the state and local level, and we re going to continue to watch the country inaugurate Republican presidents Sen Bennett Johnston. D-La a candidate to replace Robert Byrd. Va as Senate Democratic leader, also told the ABC program There are going to have to be some rules changes so that someone who's mure centrist can get the nomination IT S' Jf xt i r' -thf MANILA, Philippines (UPI) About 5,000 supporters ot former pesident Ferdinand Marcos swarmed Sunday in front ot a Manila hotel where Sen Robert Dole was staying to protest the indictment of Marcos and his wife in the United States The demonstrators, mostly older men and women, carried flags and banners that read Justice for Marcos" and Bring Marcos back as they marched to the front of the bayside Philippine Plaa hotel "We know what they (Americans) are doing to the (Marcos) couple.

shouted loyalist leader Romeo Cayetano over a loudspeaker know they are not getting any justice Dole arrived in the country Saturday with a congressional delegation for a three-day visit at the start of a Southeast Asian tour He is scheduled to discuss political, military and trade issues with government and business leaders This is part ot democracy said Dole, the Senate minority leader whose own campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was unsuccessful He slipped away from Ins security officers to watch the crowd, estimated by police at 5.ono It's democracy at work People have a right to express their views juxt ax they should." he said Dole, from Kansas wore a shirt in the yellow tones that symbolized the 1986 election campaign ol President Corazon Aquino Dole became the object ot wide spread hostility in the country when he accused the Philippiue government ot hlull and brinksmanship dm mu icccnl negotiations on tin tunning oi strategic I military bases Former Philippine 1 1 1 l.oiv lmclda Marcos returned to Hawaii last week alter pleading innocent to 4 Ss WEATHER I mil 1 Pi, rn.u. DOLING OUT CRITICISM US. Sen Robert Dole stands near a demonstration in Manila by supporters of deposed Philippine president erdmand Marcos Sunday INDEX Amuse Anderson 4 Astrology 19 Births 8 Comics 19 Crossword 19 DearAbby 8 Editorial 4 Funerals 7 Letters 4 Social 8. 10 Sports 15-18 Television 21 Partly sunny. High in the mid )0s Dc tx on P03.

federal racketeering charges before a I district court New 0 Her ailing husband, Ferdinand Marc ox. was allowed to xtav Hawaii aftei doc loi xaid lie wax too mi In trav el I be Maicoxex aie i im il using 8Pi million in embezzled Philippine t.imix ui pm chase tom Manhattan huildmgx and nearh y. million in art objei If you do not icxtore the digrntv of Imetda Marcos and Ferdinand Marcos and do not restore them to tlie Filipino people then you aie hypoe 1 ites. lovalist leader Hi in I icy lies said as the crowd chanbxt Manus still' and We Mai eox Shame on the XmeiiCaii-Miame on the I niied states ot meriea. she said tor Home Dtliury Call 344-7221.