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A Wednesday Sept 9 1987 The Miami Herald 7 A Israel probes Palestinian protester Depression weakens over North Carolina from Herald Wire Services A tropical depression lost its punch Tuesday as it brought rain to the Carolinas and Virginia The depression which formed Monday evening off South Carolina moved inland overnight and began to weaken before it could do any damage On Tuesday the center was over north-central North Carolina Flash flood watches were issued Tuesday for parts of Virginia where flooding washed out as many as 50 roads Monday Meanwhile Tropical Storm Cindy was expected to lose so much steam as it headed north in the Atlantic Ocean that it would weaken below storm status forecasters said Cindy was about 550 miles southwest of the Azores at 10:30 pm EDT The storm with top sustained winds of 40 miles per hour was moving north at about 15 mph wound up setting up the study center to propagate Gandhi's ideas He is translating some of books into Arabic Awwad has persuaded Palestinian villages to fight Israeli land seizure attempts by planting olive trees as proof of Arab ownership has organized peaceful demonstrations in Jerusalem and has called upon Palestinians to boycott Israeli products one day each month programs have been very successful but others have been complete he said largely because Arabs remember Gandhi as an opponent of Moslem breakaway from India when the British withdrew from the Indian subcontinent in 1947 Although Awwad has stayed relatively clear of confrontations with police he was arrested in 1985 for planting olive trees in Israeli-seized land his public calls for resistance have angered Israeli rightists Two ultra-nationalist Israelis from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba near the West Bank city of Hebron filed suit last year to force Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir to file sedition charges against Awwad One leader Faisal Husseini has been detained twice this year on allegations of being a senior organizer for the Palestine Liberation Organization Police opened an investigation against a Palestinian newspaper editor after a television interview showed him in his office under a portrait of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat Israeli government officials said they doubt that Awwad will be jailed but added that the government might deny him future entry visas once his current three-month tourist visa expires He travels on a US passport Awwad's campaign to emulate Mahatma tactics against the British in India has in fact found little support among Palestinians in the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip seized by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war A Greek Orthodox Catholic and Jerusalem native who was deported in 1969 for promoting business strikes to protest Israeli occupation Awwad moved to the United States married a Quaker became a family counselor and settled in Wapakoneta Ohio He returned in 1983 using his US passport to try to counsel Palestinian families on how to deal with the daily stresses of military occupations he said and By JUAN TAMAYO Herald Staff Writer JERUSALEM Israeli police on Tuesday opened a sedition investigation against a Palestinian-Ameri-can who advocates Gandhi-like peaceful resistance against Israel's military occupation of Arab lands am very pleased because it means my ideas may be having an said Mubarak Awwad 44 a social worker and director of the 4-year-old Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence Awwad said Jerusalem police told him that they are investigating complaints that his calls for nonviolent opposition to Israeli occupation amounts to sedition against Israel and incitement to resistance and asked him to turn over copies of some of his pamphlets told them 'Of course I am calling for he said adding that he also had volunteered to give police copies of all his writings in both Arabic and English investigation appeared to be part of an Israeli crackdown on Palestinian nationalist leaders that was triggered by the rising incidence of 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