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SATURDAY, June 18, 1988 The Sun A5 Philippine troops, rebels clash; 28 reported killed MANILA, Philippines (AP) Government troops clashed with communist rebels in the southern and northern Philippines, and at least 21 guerrillas and seven soldiers were killed, the military said Friday. The biggest battle occurred in Mindanao island's Surigao del Sur province, where 12 New People's Army guerrillas and seven soldiers were killed in two hours of fighting Thursday, a military spokesman said. On Bohol island. 380 miles southeast of Manila, soldiers killed two rebels after a group of guerrillas ambushed the troops Thursday, a military report said. Also Thursday, in Luzon island's I locos Norte province, government troops ambushed a rebel band on its way to attack a military detachment and killed seven insurgents, officials said.

Vi-'i LJlB3 1 AP WIREPHOTO Celebrity FOR A REALLY SPECIAL KITCHEN YOU NEED A KITCHEN SPECIALIST In Home Design Service Custom Cabinets Counter Tops Appliances Professional Installation or Do-lt-Yourself Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega signs autographs for Costa Rican women in Rio Sereno, Panama. Poles abolish pledge to aid Soviet army By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press r' Featuring ALL WOOD Custom Cabinets Appointments Welcome Daily M-F 9.30 A.M. -5 30 P.M. Saturday 10 A -A P.M Closed Sunday et Union, and the pledge is only to "guard peace in the brotherhood of arms with the allied armies." It also drops a reference to defending Poland against "the threats of imperialism." Government spokesman Jerzy Urban has stressed the revised wording does not reflect any lessening of Poland's alliance with the Soviet Union.

"The alliance with the Soviet Union provides the foundation for the Polish armed forces," Urban said last March. "No matter how this truth is expressed in words, the essence of the matter will not change." Urban said the oath was changed because "it came into existence some time ago, so it requires some adjustments." "All periods in time have their specific styles," he added. Freedom and Peace leader Jacek Czaputowicz said many people has been imprisoned simply for opposing the old oath. WARSAW, Poland The parliament on Friday adopted a new military oath that deletes a pledge to serve in alliance with the Soviet army, a clause long criticized as an affront to Polish sovereignty. A brief statement by the official news agency PAP said the new oath, which was recommended by the government and the defense ministry, was passed unanimously.

The government has called the change merely a matter of updating antiquated language and has said it would not affect relations with the Soviets. Previously, military inductees pledged to guard peace in "brotherly alliance with the Soviet army and other allied armies." An outlawed opposition group, Freedom and Peace, had long charged the oath affronted Polish sovereignty. The new oath contains no reference to the Sovi III I MAIL ilTTCHESS ml Htnt 10590 MAGNOLIA AVE. RIVERSIDE, CA 92505 Between Tyler and La Sierra Ave. (714) 354-8611 or (714) 877-1969 Conl lie.

492398 Abductors free Beirut jeweler's sons, daughter BEIRUT, Lebanon The daughter and two sons of a wealthy Lebanese jeweler who were kidnapped three days ago by gunmen demanding $3 million in ransom were freed Friday and returned home safely. It was not known whether their father, Zuheir Ariss, paid the ransom the kidnappers demanded in a telephone call. Interior Minister Abdullah Rassi said the kidnappers had not been arrested but the investigation was continuing. The children, who were snatched Tuesday from their chauffeur-driven Mercedes in west Beirut, said they were not hurt during their captivity. Reggae star's killer sentenced to death KINGSTON, Jamaica Street vendor Dennis Lobban was found guilty and sentenced to hang Friday for the murder of reggae star Peter Tosh.

Lobban, 33, maintained his innocence throughout the trial. He claimed he was drinking with friends the night of Sept. 11, 1987, when Tosh, radio disc jockey Jeff Dixon and Wilton "Doc" Brown were murdered by three gunmen who burst into Tosh's home. Lobban said he and Tosh were good friends and used to rehearse music together. The trial before a jury of eight women and four men had begun Monday.

Like all trials involving illegal firearms, it was held behind closed doors, in the Gun Court Division of the Home Circuit Court. Reporters were allowed to attend on the condi-tion they not publish the names of witnesses. Salvage workers right sunken tanker IJMUIDEN, Netherlands Dutch salvage workers using a huge floating crane Friday righted the wreck of a sunken tanker loaded with a dangerous chemical, the Traffic Ministry said. Operations were continuing to, float the Dutch-flagged Anna Broere 'and empty its1 cargo of highly inflammable and toxic arcylon nitryl, said ministry spokesman Bruno Voskuyl. None of the chemical, which is used by the plastics industry, had leaked so far, Voskuyl said.

The ship, carrying 1,600 tons of the chemical agent, sank about 55 miles off the North Sea port after colliding with a Swedish freighter. Budapest police beat peaceful protesters BUDAPEST, Hungary Police beat several people and detained at least 25 who took part in peaceful demonstrations to honor leaders executed after the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, a dissident said Friday. The detentions occurred during a rally Thursday afternoon in downtown Budapest at which about 400 dem-onstrators called for democracy and the rehabilitation of Imre Nagy, who was Hungary's leader in 1956, dissident writer Miklos Haraszti said by telephone. He was reached from Vienna at his Budapest apartment. Haraszti said all of those detained were released later.

Well-known dissidents Roza Hodosan and underground publisher Gabor Demszky were thrown to the floor of a police station and beaten by officers in front of about 15 other detainees, he said. Arab slain, 18 hurt trying to save home NABLUS, Occupied West Bank Israeli soldiers fired on stone-throwing Palestinians who tried to stop them from blowing up an Arab's home Friday, killing one and wounding 18, hospital officials and witnesses said. Army officials confirmed the death but said only four Arabs were wounded. At least 209 Palestinians have been killed in the rebellion that began Dec. 8 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 war.

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