| Show The Salt Lake Tribune Soviets French Says Iraqi Pilot Iran (UPI) Iraqi the Iranians An pi-lo- t’ captured by says Soviet French and Indian military advisers are aiding Baghdad in its 6V d war against Iran year-olLt Abdal Aaly Mohammad Fatad was captured last week after bailing out of his fighter plane which was shot down over Iranian territory He was brought before Western journalists Monday by Iranian officials in the city of Ahwaz near the southern border with Iraq Fatad one of several Iraqi officers taken prisoner after Iran launched an offensive into Iraqi territory Jan 9 said foreign military advisers in Baghdad are helping direct Iraq’s war effort “There are advisers from the Soviet Union France and sometimes from India” said the pilot part of a squadron from A1 Nasiriah air base on the Euphrates River about 100 miles northwest of the Persian Gulf port city of Basra Iran shows off to newsmen thousands of Iraqi prisoners of war captured in the drive on Basra The POWs chanted slogans praising Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini i I summit Conference Organization d with his Arab Tuesday world archrival Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak but moments later Assad assailed Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel “No one should blame us if we do not agree with the person who cooperates with the enemy” Assad said in a blistering speech reiterating his hand-in-han- opposition to “anyone makes peace with Israel” “An Arab cannot be with Arabs and Israel at the same time” Assad said Observers were baffled by the address which came shortly after the leaders of two of the Middle East’s most influential nations met outside Islamic the summit of the organization and in a traditional ges- - deep-roote- d who ture of good will joined hands and walked inside “Mubarak approached and took Assad's hand and began talking to the g securiSyrian leader” a ty official said “Assad did not resist and in a few seconds both men walked into the conference hall holding hands followed by their respective delegations’’ Egypt and Syria have been fiercely at odds since 1977 when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visited Jerusalem Egypt a founding member of the Islamic Conference was expelled after it concluded a peace treaty with Israel on March 26 1979 but was readmitted in April 1984 Mubarak took the podium after Assad’s speech and read from a prepared text He mentioned the Arab-Israeconflict only once reiterating li Foreign Briefs Floods Kill Dozens in Brazil - SAO PAULO Brazil (UPI) The heaviest rain in 38 years unleashed flash floods Tuesday that killed at least 69 people left 9000 homeless and covered huge areas of South America’s largest city with 6 feet of water Many families were buried alive by landslides that engulfed their flimsy slum shacks Flash floods that rose by as much as 5 feet in minutes also killed many residents local news agencies said Interior Ministry spokesman Fernando Grossi early Tuesday set the death toll at 58 and 7000 homeless but by evening Brazil’s doomestic news agencies reported 69 dead and 9000 homeless The downpour that began Saturday dumped 105 inches on the area pushing the Tiete River out of its banks and blocking major highways in Sao Paulo Brazil’s industrial center and a city of 153 million At least 45 inches of rain fell Monday night in what meteorologist Neide Oliveira said was the worst downpour since 1949 The rain had slowed by Monday evening Entire neighborhoods were cut off by flooded streets forcing military police to rescue flood victims by helicopter Water covered major highways leading into Sao Paulo halting all bus and train service past calls for an international conference to solve the crisis Assad read chapters from the Arab League charter banning all contact with Israel and a 1950 decision that said the Arabs should break relations with any league member that violates its dictums on Israel Assad spoke at length about the li conflict in his speech citing its historic roots causes and consequences A transcript showed 26V2 pages were devoted to the conflict half a page to the Persian Gulf war and the rest about other Islamic and Arab Arab-Israe- Arab-Israe- li matters Assad’s harsh words and reiteration of Syrian hard-lin- e policies quashed immediate hopes for a reconciliation with the Egyptian leader and reduced hopes for an informal Arab summit on the fringe of the Islamic parley “The speech means Assad is as determined as ever not to mend his fences with Egypt and the encounter with Mubarak will just be an uneventful incident” said a conference source Assad also lashed out at US support for Israel “There is no American policy in the Middle East but an Israeli policy implemented by the United States Deutsche Presse-AgentTEHRAN Iran — Iran reported further advances east of the Iraqi city of Basra Tuesday but Iraq said it had repelled the Iranian onslaught and killed “thousands” of enemy soldiers Military communiques from both sides indicated that fierce fighting was still under way during the latest Gulf Iranian offensive of the war Iran said its troops destroyed Iraqi defenses and killed injured or captured an entire regiment in an overnight attack on Iraqi positions west of the Jassem River and a canal linking Fish Lake with the Shat al Arab waterway Farther south Iranian troops “liberated” more than a mile of the road linking Shalamch with Basra Iraq's second largest city Iran said in a military communique read over Tehran Radio An Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad denied the Iranian claims of territorial gains and said the Iraqis Court Upholds Acquittal of 4 In ’69 Milan Bank Bombing Syria: Tough Talk Gentle Gesture for Egypt KUWAIT (UPI) — Syrian President Hafez Assad entered the Islamic Reuter News Agency Italy’s highest court closed one of the country’s most controversial judicial sagas Tuesday upholdand an anarchist ing the acquittal of three accused of planting a bomb that killed 16 people in a Milan bank in 1969 The ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal was expected to be the last word in a legal process that has seen the incident known as the Piazza Fontana massacre discussed eight times in court But it also left unanswered the question of who was to blame for the attack first in a long series of terrorist outrages in Italy The bomb in a Milan branch of the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura injured 88 people In 1979 a court in Catanzaro sentenced two Franco Freda and Giovanni Ventura to life imprisonment for the massacre Anarchist Pietro Valpreda was jailed for six years for conspiracy Mario Merlino a rightist who infiltrated anarchist circles and three former secret service agents received jail terms of between two and six years on charges including conspiracy forgery and perjury had Valpreda’s lawyers argued that staged the bombing and then tried to blame it on the extreme left ROME repelled the Iranian offensive and "wiped out” five regiments and one brigade of Revolutionary Guards The spokesman said that more than a division of Iranian troops was “annihilated" in Monday night’s fighting Iran said its latest push was a continuation of the Kerbala-- 5 offensive launched Jan 9 with the objective of “either destroying or forcing the surrender of the Iraqi regime’s forces” a commentary read over Tehran Radio said The Iraqi air force which was grounded Monday raided selected targets” Tuesday afternoon in the border cities of Ilam and Shahabad in western Iran and Dehlaran in the southwest An Iraqi communique read over Baghdad Radio said that Iraqi planes also launched “destructive raids” on four other Iranian cities including Khomein birthplace of Iran’s revo’n-tionar- y leader the Ayatollah Ruhu lah Khomeini Dennis the Menace By Hank Ketcham — ts ts ts she “My mom lets me get away with anything doesn’t catch me at” Swedes Release 3 Suspects in Prime Minister’s Death Reuter News Agency STOCKHOLM Sweden — Police hunting the killer of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme received a further blow Tuesday when three Kurds linked to the murder were released after evidence against them collapsed in a Stockholm court The three were accused of being accomplices to the murder of a Kurd Cetin Gungor at a Stockholm party in November 1985 — a killing police said was directly linked to Palme’s shooting on a Stockholm street last February But magistrates at the preliminary proceedings ordered the release of two of the men due to insufficient evidence and the third was then released by prosecutors asm Mile e long-distan- Copter Goes Down Bangs Up CBS Crew MANAGUA Nicaragua (AP) — A CBS television reporter and two members of his crew escaped serious injury when a Nicaraguan helicopter in which they were traveling was forced down because of mechanical problems network producer John said Tuesday He said the forced landing of the Soviet-mad- e Mi-1- 7 helicopter occurred near Nueva Guinea in southeastern Nicaragua 125 miles southeast of Managua on Sunday I Aboard the helicopter were reporter Courtney Hood of the United States Domingo Rex a Mexican and soundman Aziz Akya-va- s a Turk All three were sent to Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami for treatment of minor cuts and abrasions he said Siceloff said authorities told him the accident was due to unspecified mechanical problems and cameraman A Nicaraguan Defense Ministry of-ficial contacted by telephone told The Ltiu Associated Press there was nobody j available to comment on the China Bejects Appeal Beporter Must Go - China rejected PEKING (UPI) as “utterly unjustified" Wednesday a protest by the French news agency over the exAgence France-Press- e pulsion of its Peking correspondent Lawrence MacDonald AFP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Georges Biannic was told of the rejection during a meeting Wednesday morning with Zeng Wen-bi- n the deputy section chief for the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s information department Biannic and MacDonald an American who was in Hong Kong when the Foreign Ministry announced Monday that he would no longer be allowed to work in China arrived in Peking Tuesday to try to persuade Chinese leaders to reconsider their decision “The protest by the AFP is utterly unjustified and has been categorically rejected by us” a Foreign Ministry spokesman told United Press International after Wednesday’s meeting AFP Editor in Chief Felix Bolo filed a protest Monday with the ForMacDoneign Ministry charging that ald's expulsion is “a grave obstacle to freedom of expression” Vatican to Beatify Victim of Auschwitz VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vati- can on Tuesday took the last official step for the beatification of a Jewish woman who became a Catholic nun and lied in Auschwitz The Vatican’s Congregation for the Cause of Saints promulgated “the martyrdom and the heroic virtue” of Teresa Benedetta della Croce who was born as Edith Stein Vatican officials said she will be beatified by Pope John Paul II during his trip to West Germany in May Be atification is a first step toward possible sainthood The nun bom in Breslau Germany (now Wroclaw Poland) in 1891 converted to Catholicism in the 1920s and joined the Carmelite order in 1933 At the beginning of World War II she was transferred to a Dutch convent to escape the Nazi persecution She was arrested by the German Gestapo in 1942 and died in a gas chamber at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Aug 9 1942 E German Sneaks to West 8th Escape of ’87 HANOVER West Germany (AP) -- East German man escaped unharmed Tuesday across the communist border to West Germany border police in Hanover said K The escape brings to eight the number of East Germans who have fled across the fenced-of- f border or over A5 Both Iran Iraq Claiming Victories in Basra Fight Give Us Help AHWAZ Wednesday January 28 1987 the Berlin Wall since the start of the year East German border troops who have orders to shoot to stop border escapes apparently did not notice the man border police said As is customary authorities did not disclose the identity of the man nor 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