| Show Vol79No279 Covering BrkJgertand Northern Utah and Southern Idaho Monday November 14 1988 Logan Utah 14 section 35 cents Arafat Gustmg winds blow blizzard through Utah in solid control of PLO Algeria (UPI) -hardline Palestinian guerrilla leader refused to budge today on his rejection of a UN resolution recognizing Israel's right to exist but conceded that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat appeared to have solid support on the issue in their ALGIERS By United Press International A A major winter storm hit the West early today dumping up to a foot of mow on Oregon’s mountain passes and bringing wind gusts of up to SO mph in parts of Utah and Nevada Snow sell from the mountains of Southern California and Arisona to the northern Rockies and Great Basin to the dismay of many travelers and the delight of ski enthusiasts near resorts from Lake Tahoe to Jackson Hole Heavy snow fell at Jackson Wyo with up to s foot reported in the area by late Sunday the National Weather Service said The only vehicles going over Teton Pass west of Jackson were with chains Truckee Calif near Lake Tahoe reported I inches of snow and parlisment-in-exil- e Arafat presided over a meeting of the political committee of the Palestine National Council late Sunday in a bid to persuade radicals to adopt two UN resolutions in a “political statement” that would also include a Palestinian declaration of independence PLO sources said “We feel responsible We are not ready to give such a four-wheel-dri- tf—nrilat 1 pages IViiiw Summit Forecasters at the National Weather Service said a foot of mow fell in the mountain passes of northeast Oregon during the night while winds gusted to 10 mph at Richfield Utah 51 mph at Salt Lake City and 50 mph at Mercury Nev Salt Lake (Sty’s temperature dropped from 51 degrees to SI degrees in a two-hoperiod early today as the storm moved in forecasters said A heavy snow watch was in effect today and tonight for Colorado's mountains and winter storm watches were issued for most of eastern Wyoming and western South Dakota Snow advisories were postal for the Stars Nevadas of California and northern Nevada and mountains of southern Idaho southwest MflrffM and northwest Wyoming Forecasters said many areas may get up to a foot of new snow before the day is out On Interstate 10 in the Sierra near Dooner Summit the California Highway Patrol reported numerous minor accidents Sunday many involving early season skiers on their way home “People lust cant seem to figure out to slow down when it starts snowing" Gins Moran a dispatcher at the Highway Patrol office in Truckee said “People are cradling into each other right and left" A California Highway Patrolman helped a mother deliver a baby in a car stuck in the snow near Nyak man who has Donald W Buchanan of Mariposa an backpacked the Sierra for 80 years was reported missing in Yosemite National Park i The storm also brought rain to many areas of the Pacific Coast states and high winds to parts of the Southwest i The rain pounded the San Francisco Bay area shortly before s on the slick and poon Sunday and csused a rash of sometimes flooded streets the CHP said The rain also batted the Nabisco Golf Championship at Pebble jBeach on the Monterey Peninsula sending scores soaring and finally causing a delay in play ur present to (Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak) Shamir" Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader George Habash said today Many of tne radicals have grouped around Habash Habash however told United Press International he does not hold out much hope of winning a separate vote on Security Council Resolution 242 when tne council the Palestimeets nian parliament-in-exil- e in a plenary session late today “This council is not formed on real democratic principle" Habash said with a unig during the interview “This is the council of (Arafat)" Acceptance of the resolution would mean implicit Palestine Liberation Organization recognition of Israel because it refers to the right of all countries in the region including Igrtel- to exist within secure borders Resolution 242 was passed by the United Nations Security Council in 1987 and Resolution 228 which calls for an international peace conference on the Middle East was passed in fender-bender- - Snow covers USU s Old Main te HIM today 1972 During the session deputies were to approve a “political statement’ designed to build on the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in which more than 200 people have died The parliament was also set to declare an independent state in the occupied territories The declaration of independence was originally scheduled to be made on Tuesday but Palestinian sources said it could come as early as today Shamir who was asked today to form Israel’s new government told reporters that even if the PNC recognized the resolution “we will not negotiate with the PLO because they are opposed to peace" Asked what would happen in Israel Tuesday if the PNC declared an independent state he said: “Nothing will happen Nothing will change in our country in the territories" In Washington President Reagan said endorsement of the UN resolutions “would Israeli-occupie- Abbas flaunts freedom at PLO meeting ALGIERS Algeria (UPI) — Palestinian guerleader Mohammed Abu Abbas says Washington has abandoned its efforts to arrest him for allegedly masterminding the October 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship in which an American was killed In a rare interview Sunday Abbas told United rilla Press International that the Oct 7 1M5 today After the Achille Laura hijacking the Reagan administration dubbed Abbas until then a n member of the Palestine Liberation Organization the world’s most wanted terrorist ana offered 8250000 for his arrest The Justice Department issued an arrest warrant for Abbas as the mastermind of the hijacking but dropped charges on Nov 9 1987 citing lack of evidence “Tne Americans announced officially that they no longer are planning to capture me" Abbas said "They announced one year ago that they do not have sufficient proof that I had committed little-know- hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Laura received undue world attention Leon American was Klinghoffer a wheelchair-boun- d shot in the head and dumped overboard during the two-dahostage ordeal off the coast of Egypt "‘Maybe he was trying to swim for it" Abbas any offense" told reporters with a But US officials still hold Abbas responsible outside the convention hall where the Palestinian leaders for masterminding the hijacking and have said were meeting The New York Times reported they would like to see him brought to justice y ' Maybe he was trying to swim for it Abu Abbas says of dead American Leon Klinghoffer half-smi- le & ef 4 frjT--&ln3de- :' years ago this wook I Cache Valors first com! Fifty fmerciai radio station on the sir The station is hosting a number of events In celebration 8 ' ' P "i &’ XVNU went 'f Vnblex About Cache Classified ads Obituaries Region report Sports Stock prices 4 12 r4 3 6 4 Weather What Is it? What’s that wet white stuff? Better get Paul Revere on the line or is H Chicken Little that we need Forest the tire etore-t- hat kse 18 busy 4 Mid - See PLO on page 2 Economics seen as high priority in Bush plan - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Office of was open for busithe President-Elec-t ness today with George Bush said to be giving high priority to economic policy as he assembles a new administration for a historic transfer of power As Bush enjoyed some rest and recuperation in Florida during the weekend his senior advisers continued work on a transition that of faces if a turnover promises major not policy from the Reagan era Today his core transition team was to be in place ensconced in a set of offices prepared by the General Services Administration and set to confront a series of decisions on the shape style and substance of his presidency Hoping to send a message of reassurance to Wall Street transition codirector Craig Fuller said Sunday that selection of s team to chart economic policy was “priority one" for the new post-electi- 72-d-ay Transition team continues work surfaced in the days since the election with Bush described as intent on moving quickly but not precipitously to assemble the government that will take power served as an economic adviser to Reagan and Bush for a further decline in tne battered dollar to reduce the nation's huge and problematic trade deficit “President Reagan is still in office The economic policy is set by the current sitting administration and we’re not going to rush out to suddenly a issue statements that reflect change in policy" he said “We see no reason to change the policies that are in place right now with respect to the dollar" Bush set a rapid pace for the transition just 12 hours after his victory over Michael Dukakis by tapping James administration Baker the shrewd and savvy Texan At the same time he indicated Bush who managed his presidential camis in no hurry to veer from the economic paigns in 1980 and 1988 and who is course followed by President Reagan regarded as perhaps his most trusted In particular Fuller disavowed a call adviser as secretary of state last week by Martin Feldstein who has Due to the close relationship between the two men going back more than two decades to their days in Houston Baker is expected to wield broad influence well beyond the traditional purview of his Cabinet post While shrugging off suggestions that Baker might serve in effect as a "deputy president" Fuller acknowledged on tne NBC News program “Meet the Press" that “hers a man of extraordinary capability somebody that George Bush nas come to rely on for many many years" “He will certainly have influence beyond foreign policy" Fuller said “but there will be other strong members of the Cabinet who will have their say in foreign policy issues as well So I think we’re going to see a very strong team assembled to work with the president on a wide array of issues" Dozens of potential candidates for Jobs in the new administration have i 4 — d - - - Jan 20 That emphasis could manifest itself this week in the appointment of Richard Darman a former deputy treasury secretary as director of the Office of Management and Budget and the an- nouncement that investment banker Nicholas Brady a dose friend and adviser to Bush will be asked to remain in the Cabinet as treasury secretary Stanford University economist advised Bush an odds-ois the campaign during of the become to chairman favorite Council of Economic Advisers Michael Boskin who n As president Bush will face no shortage of Immediate challenges on the economic front including the high budget and trade deficits the everpresent threat that the record-lon- g economic expansion that helped elect him will come to an end and possible clashes not only with Congress but with the Federal Reserve Bank as well |
