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Show Thursday, October 26, 1989 The Daily Herald, Provo, I'tah f r ' v World Polish govommenf to disband! units despised eirefl poliee ' u In an WARSAW, Poland (AP) effort to regain public acceptance, the government is disbanding units of the widely despised secret police, reducing eavesdropping and focusing police resources on fighting crime, commanders say. Many of the opposition activists the secret police had long made a practice of watching and harassing under Communist rule AP Laserphoto USSR seeks close ties Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze listens to the proceedings of Warshaw Pact meetings. He said the USSR wants close relations with both the Communist Party and with Solidarity, which now controls Poland. - Israel, at Jxiijstwith Washington over a PLO role "in peace talks, has issued a report claiming Yasser Arafat's faction ordered 12 attacks on Israeli pivilians since the PLO chief disavowed terrorism in December. I Groups affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization carried put 18 infiltrations or rocket attacks across Israel's borders in the same period, the report said. Yigal Carmon, Prime Minister advisYitzhak Shamir's anti-terrer, prepared the report and provided .a copy to The Associated Press pn Wednesday. lh;his report, Carmon said the attacks "are a violation of the rotpmitment Arafat gave to the United States and shows he can't be irusted and that you can't do business with him." ; He urged the United States to "suspend the dialogue temporarily iintil Arafat keeps his commit- ments." The report comes as Israel and 'the United States haggle over peace inoves, especially the possible involvement of the PLO in talks. i Isfael defines the PLO as a terrorist organization and refuses to ;deal'with it. It has strongly object-;e- d to the U.S. dialogue with the 'PUJ, which began 10 months ago UfeB Arafat renounced terrorism ;and Said he recognized Israel. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) tist guerrillas stormed two towns Lefnorth--easte- rn then abandoned ".them, leaving at least six people Idead in Colombia's worst rebel violence in two years. ThJ attacks Wednesday by the n National Liberation Army, a guerilla group, apparently werfi unrelated to the government's war; against drug traffickers, now Centering its 10th week. The army has claimed tor seven years, without producing proof, that come leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers work in tandem. ; The government pressed ahead 'with the drug war Wednesday, notifying an alleged member of the jiledellin cocaine cartel that he was being extradited to the United States and taking steps to protect presidential candidates from violence by traffickers. According to TV Hoy, the government notified Jose Rafael Abello Siltaj, 34, of his impending have said Abello is the ourQi most important figure in the Meflellin cartel, in charge of its activities on Colombia's Atlantic ; extradi-tion.-Poli- ty also known by his alias, Monkey," was arrested Oct. 10 in" Bogota and faces a charge by n Oklahoma federal court of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. ' According to President Virgilio Barco's extradition decree, Abello has five days to appeal the extradition. The Barco government has extradited four accused drug traffickers to the United States since it launched the crackdown in after the assassination of leading presidential candidate Luis Catfas Galan. ; The Israeli report noted that Thomas Pickering, then the U.S. ambassador, gave Israel a pledge a talks began day after the U.S.-PLDec. 15 in Tunis that "no American administration can sustain the dialogue if terrorism continues by the PLO or any of its factions." O situation worsens and the gap between rich and poor widens. There are many vacancies in the police because of low pay and low prestige, said Zbigniew Nowicki, deputy commander of the regular police force. He said that in some Warsaw precincts, 59 percent of the positions are vacant. g ZOMO riot poThe lice, disbanded in a highly symbolic move Sept. 29, will be replaced by "prevention squads" of 5,177 officers in 22 of the 49 provinces, Garstka said. They will be supplemented by 13,000 men serving in the police as an alternative to mandatory military duty. Karpacz denied there was a special police unit to monitor foreign journalists. Garstka said the Interior Ministry is prepared to provide all materials requested by a special parliament commission investigating accusations that security forces are responsible for more than 90 deaths. 12,500-stron- counter-intelligen- FALL FIXUP, CLEANUP, REMODEL AND DECORATE YOUR HOME cooperation between Israel and Washington told Israel it expected the PLO to condemn any act of terror and to discipline the guerrillas responsible, Carmon's report said, and added: South Africa." The South African government refused comment on the report, which appeared Wednesday. It reiterated its longstanding policy of not commenting on details of military cooperation with other countries. Israel's Defense Ministry spokesman, Eitan Haber, said his country is adhering to a March 18, 1987, Cabinet decision that no new defense contracts between Israel and South Africa be signed. NBC cited unidentified intelligence sources and a CIA document in its report. It said Israel provides missile technology to South Africa in return for a continuous supply of enriched uranium for its own nuclear warheads and the use of the Overberg long-rantest site in South Africa. The network said the Overberg site and a missile assembly building there were built for both coun- "Not only has the PLO failed to fulfill these requirements, but Arafat's own Fatah organization in particular has itself engaged in terrorist acts ... and it has, further- more, encouraged and lauded these attacks even in the midst of these talks." The report said a second group linked to Force 17, an elite unit led an Arafat by Mahmoud Al Natur was aide known as Abu Tayyib blamed for seven bombings in the Tikva area from Tel Aviv-Peta- h March through June. Another explosion in the West Bank wounded a bomber. Two other bombings were attributed to an operation called Western Sector, which the report said was under Arafat's personal command. One wounded a Jewish cemetery worker. 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Reached by telephone, a secretary at Urdan said the company's director general, Yaacov Ben Bas-sa- t, was out of the country and could not be reached for comment. Defense Minister Oscar Botero announced Wednesday that the discharge of more than 18,000 soldiers was being delayed so they could provide security for presidential candidates. The soldiers' service had been scheduled to end this month. About 80,000 Colombians are enlisted in the army. The soldiers will be used in operations before, during and after the presidential elections next May, Botero told reporters. His comments were broadcast by TV Hoy. $g)99 Tweed Carpet tries and that Israeli engineers have worked there for several 12'X11'to12'X16' $99 88. cooperation Era mm Simmons uaxiped ic m Twin Size Simmons r.iaxipedic Queen Set Simmons Beautyresl Queen Set Simmons Heritage Queen Set FUniHTURE Solas Loveseats Chest ol Drawers w. 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One will guard against political extremists and terrorists who "do not want to become legal" under new freedoms, another will safeguard the economy against espionage and disruption, and a third will analyze security information and develop new methods, especially for crime prevention, he said. efforts Also, will be strengthened, he said. More emphasis will be put on protecting public safety and property, Garstka said, and some secret police officers will be transferred to help combat what he said was an alarming rise in thefts and burglaries. There are now about 1,250 crimes per 100,000 people annually, which Garstka said is relatively low by 4 TAYLOR CARPETS Minister Yitzhak Shamir today denied news reports that Israel provided technology for a nuclear-capabmissile that reportedly was d in South Africa in July. Shamir told Israel Radio there was "no truth" to the NBC television news report, which said Israel has been engaged in a partnership with South Africa to develop nuclear missile capability. "We totally deny this story," said Shamir's media adviser, Avi Paz-ne- r. "There is no nuclear link or Colombian violence eaves 6 people dead : history." Israeli report claims PLO still terrorists JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Israeli officials deny they helped S. Africa with nuclear missile : JERUSALEM (AP) He characterized the changes being made in the country's police as "perhaps the deepest in postwar Despite Solidarity's leading role in the new government, the Interior Ministry is still run by the Gen. ComCzeslaw Kiszczak, a long-tim- e munist and confidant of President Wojciech Jaruzelski. Jerzy Karpacz, deputy chief of became lawmakers and Cabinet the secret police, said the officers ministers this year. "not only fully accept these Six undercover departments are changes, but are aware that the being disbanded, there will be less changes are irreversible. If any are bugging and units that inspected found with a different view, they foreign mail and monitored foreign will have to leave the force." The secret police long symbolized radio broadcasts will be dissolved, Communist control by fear. They police officials told a news conferare bitterly remembered as the ence. "The Interior Ministry is going to executors of Stalinist purges, as strive for public acceptance and infiltrators of opposition groups and prestige," said Wojciech Garstka, as thugs who roughed up activists. Three rogue officers and their spokesman for the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the commander from the "fourth department," which spied police. Garstka was joined by the deputy on the church, were convicted of chiefs of the regular and secret the 1984 kidnapping and murder of Rev. 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