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Show KB -- U- World Friday. May ."5. If8 The Daily Herald. I'rovo. I'fah Iran calls on all Palestinians to kill Americans they (Israelis) could not continranian parliament speaker ue these wrongs," Rafsanjani Hashemi Rafsanjani said today was quoted as saying by the that Palestinians should kill official Islamic Republic News Americans and other Western- Agency, monitored in Nicosia. "It is not hard to kill Ameriers in retaliation for attacks by the Israeli military in the occu- cans or Frenchman. It is a bit difficult to kill (Israelis). But pied territories. "If in retaliation for every there are so many (Americans Palestinian martyred in Pales- and Frenchman) everywhere in tine they will kill and execute, the world," he was quoted as not inside Palestine, five Amer- saying. At least 460 Palestinians and icans or Britons or Frenchmen, NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) AIDS -I- Israelis have died in the Palestinian uprising that began against Israeli rule on Dec. 8, 1987, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel seized from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war. IRNA said the parliament speaker made the remarks at a prayer sermon today in Tehran before huge rallies to mark the Iranian holiday in support of the Palestinian cause. 20 after coming to power in their blood worth anything?" used his condemnation as a platform to attack slackening the Islamic revolution, Ira- Rafsanjani was quoted as saynian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah ing. revolutionary zeal in Iran. His remarks appeared to be a Khomeini set aside May 5 as further deepening of the IraniWestern reaction to the death Quds Day, referring to the Arabic name for Jerusalem. He an campaign against the West, sentence, including 14 countries has called on Islamic nations to launched Feb. 14 by Khomeini that called home their top enfree Jerusalem, Islam's third with a death sentence against voys from Tehran, led to holiest city after Mecca and British author Salman Rushdie Khomeini and other Iranian for his book "The Satanic Versleaders saying ties with the Medina, from Israeli rule. "Those who give $10 billion a es." West are unnecessary. DiploKhomeini said Rushdie blas- matic relations with Britain year to preserve Israel and know what they are doing, is phemed Islam in the book and were severed. Soon 1979 cases Two relief workers top 150,000 OK after in south worldwide - GENEVA (AP) New figures from the United States pushed the total of reported cases of AIDS around the world to more than 150,000 last month, the World Health Organization said today. Updated reports received during April listed 5,191 new cases, nearly half of which were registered by the United States, according to the U.N. agency's latest monthly survey. A total of 151,790 cases have now been registered since WHO started keeping records in 1980. of the 148 reportTwenty-eiging countries say they have no victims. American Samoa, in the Western Pacific, reported its first case. The United States, which accounts for nearly 60 percent of the world's total, reported 2,845 new victims between the end of l. This February and brought the U.S. total up to 89,501 cases. France, which ranks second only to the United States in the - Two SIDON, Ibanon f AP) West Germans reportedly abducted in south Lebanon reappeared early today, but a Pa- lestinian guerrilla said kidnappers were holding a third in connection with the case of a Lebanese hijacker on trial in West Germany. There was no immmediate confirmation a third West German was being held, and West German television said the fice between the Palestinian refugee camps of Ein and Mieh Mieh, near the southern port of Sidon. A Palestinian guerrilla officer in charge of security at the base where the two work said the West Germans "told me that the kidnappers are keeping their colleague Marcus Michael ... in connection with the case of Mohammed Ali Hamadi. Bonn government was skeptical anyone was seized. "We are still trying to find the facts," said West German Ambassador Wolfgang Gottel-maIn West Germany, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hanns Schumacher said the two West German relief workers who reappeared "disappeared for a certain period of time and then suddenly reappeared" last year as well. The Sunni Moslem Nasserite militia said in a statement that ht n. mid-Apri- Heinrich Struebig and Petra Schnitzler were released at 5 number of reported cases, found 754 new sufferers in the first three months of the year, raising its total to 6,409 cases. Brazil registered 766 new cases for the first two months of 1989. With a reported total of 5,712 cases, the country has the highest number of cases in Latin America. Bermuda had the highest incidence rate in the American region, with 49.1 per 100,000 people, compared with 10.5 in the United States. I In Africa, Malawi had the highest rate, 22.2. In Europe, Switzerland, topped the rate list with 5.9 per 100,000. Except for Australia, 2.8, and French Polynesia, 3.3, the number of reported cases in the remainining regions of the world was too low for computing an incidence rate. abduction Lebanon a.m., 10 hours after being abducted, and drove to their of Miss Universe Pageant contestants, from left, Atlriana Ahascal, Miss Mexico; Gretchen Polhemus, Miss USA; and Frances Siryi, Miss Honduras, learn how to make pizza Wednesday during a visit to Domino's Pizza in Cancun , Mexico. The Miss Universe Pageant is scheduled for May 23 in Cancun. Weapon reductions East pressuring the West East German Ambassador ons and wants to postpone a Klaus-DietWarsaw Pact nations today Ernst insisted at decision on modernizing the altoday's resumption of conven- weapons until after next year's pressured quarreling NATO lies to open talks on reducing tional arms talks that parallel elections. The Vienna talks opened e tactical nuclear weapons in Eu- talks on reducing 9 with a mandate that March rope and said such negotiations nuclear weapons are vital to specifically excluded nuclear are tied to efforts to trim con- Germans. "The shorter the range of the rockets. ventional forces. Soviet and East German dip- rockets, the more dead GerBut Ernst and Soviet Ambaslomats used today's resumption mans," he told a news confer- sador said Oleg A. of East-Wetalks on conven- ence, referring to the fact that that the seven Grinevsky Warsaw Pact KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia tional into the East and West Germans are nations see talks on weapons to e Seven pirates armed dispute within thejump (AP) most threatened by the e NATO allinuclear weapons and naval with shotguns and hammers ance over e reducing weapons. forces as part of overall efforts slaughtered 130 Vietnamese ref- nuclear weapons. The absence of parallel to reduce arms and increase ugees and set fire to their boat West Germany and some Euon nuclear weapons security in Europe. off the Malaysian coast last ropean NATO members want "would of course have negative month, refugee officials said superpower talks on U.S. Ambassador Steven J. reducing effects" on the Vienna talks on short-rangtoday. nuclear weapons, conventional arms, he added. said he was disapLedogar The attackers shot and bludgbut the United States and BritWest German Chancellor Helwhen every East bloc pointed eoned refugees to death after ain oppose them because of the mut Kohl, worried about the speaker at today's closed-doo- r raping several women, said the Soviet advantage in convention- sliding popularity of his center-rigtalks mentioned the nuclear U.N. high commissioner for refal weapons. Washington and weapons, "even as they admitgovernment, supports in VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- er Pirates kill Vietnamese refugees short-rang- st said the Palestinian, 1st Lt. Maarouf, who uses only one name. Hamadi is a Lebanese Shiite Moslem on trial in Frankfurt, West Germany, on murder and air piracy charges in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner in which a U.S. Navy diver was killed. Neither Struebig, a administrator, nor Ms. Schnitzler, a nurse, would speak to reporters after, their arrival in Sidon. They hid their faces from photographers. short-rang- - LONDON (AP) Britain expelled three South African diplomats today over their country's involvement in a plot to supply arms to Northern Ireland extremists in exchange for British-mad- e missile parts. The Foreign Office said Permanent Undersecretary Sir Patrick Wright summoned South African Ambassador Rae Killen and told him the three must leave the country within a week. "We noted their expression of regret," a ernment has decided that the South African government should be requested to withdraw three members of the South African Embassy," the statement said. The move came two weeks after authorities in Paris arrested a South African diplomat, an American arms dealer and three members of an extreme Protestant organization in Northern Ireland. The Northern Irelanders al- statement quoted legedly were handing over parts of a Blowpipe, a sophist- Wright as telling Killen. "However, the South African government should be under no illusion about the grave concern with which Her Majesty's Government viewed the involvement by South African officials in this affair." "Because of the gravity of this affair, Her Majesty's Gov icated shoulder-fire- d anti-aircra- short-rang- nego-tatio- e ht Such attacks on refugees fleeing Vietnam have increased in number and viciousness recently. Two attacks in March left more than 100 people missing and presumed dead. Western officials say most pirates are Thais who roam the South China Sea, the Gulf of : Thailand and waters near Indonesia. man who sur:: The vived the attack in April was identified as Pham Ngoc Minh Hung by refugee officials who declined to be identified. - He fled Vietnam April 14 on a motorized wooden boat with about 130 refugees, including 20 'children, said a statement issued by the commission. -- London also want to modernize the short-rang- e missiles. talks with the Soviets on reduce nuclear weap ing short-rang- ted they have no place in this negotiation." Soviet hockey player defects STOCKHOLM, Sweden AP) Alexander Mogilny. regarded as one of the best young hockey players in the world, defected to the West to play in the National Hockcv League, according to Soviet and Swedish news reports. Mogilny, 2(1. failed to show up Thursday at Stockholm's airport to join the Soviet National Team on its return to Moscow. The national news agency, TT, reported that Mogilny left this morning on a Scandinavian Airlines System plane to New York. Spokesmen for the NHL and the Buffalo Sabres, who hold Mogilny's rights, said they knew nothing of the defection. Sabres spokesman Budd Bailey-saiThursday night that general manager Gerry Mcehan left town Wednesday and did not leave word where he could be reached. But a Gerry Meehan was registered Thursday at the Sergei Plaza Hotel in Stockholm. SPRING CRAFT FAIR Saturday, May 6, 1989 10:00 am To 3:00 pm If payday is Friday, and your boss lolls you to come back for your check Wednesday, how do you feel? The same way carrier feels your if you don't pay on time. Your Herald carrier has a job to do, and deserves to be paid promptly. GREA T MO THER 'S DA Y GIFTS! Crafts A wide variety for sale Miniature Golf Crystal and Glass Food Items Each Herald carrier pays for his papers whether or not you pay him. 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The attack took place in the South China Sea off the Malaysian coast on April 16, according to the only known survivor, who was picked up by another refugee boat after he floated for 29 hours. they-lef- t yesterday evening. Only two of them returned today,", Britain expels three So. African diplomats AP Making pizza "There were three when The Daify Herald .' , . |