PLO EEC members to an international peace and Bourj-Barajneh. students.
black worker by the company to end discrimination.
Chile It clothing and mouths, and so oi demonstrators calling for civil liberties.
Israeli air force launched another air raid against Palestinian positions in Lebanon on 20 March. This air raid was the fifth against Lebanon and the third against Palestinian positions this year. The target was positons held by Fateh fighters, the majority group in the The attack takes place against the background of an increasing deterioration of the internal situation in the country, the presence of Syrian military forces to help the shite Ammal militia fighting the PLO, thé suppport given by the conference, and a worsening of the situation in the Palestinian refugee camps, especially Chatila Frenchman Pierre-André Albertini has been sentenced to four vears imorisonment by the authorities of bantustan Ciskei. The sentence came as a result of Albertini's refusal to be the prosecution witness against five blacks accused of terrorist activities and membership of the ANC. He is accused of having brought money and arms to the ANC. Albertini was offered a deal: charges would be dropped if he testified against the five blacks. It's morally impossible', was Albertini's reply. The sentence has provoked a demonstation outside the South African embassy in Paris which was virtually under siege by youth who chanted 'Botha murderer, Chirac, Mitterand, accomplices'.
By contrast, a white South African policeman accused of murdering two black students and attempted murder of a third has been acquitted by a Johannesburg court on the ground of legitimate defence against the black Meanwhile the South African Railways and Harbour Workers Union has successfully called its 14,000 members on strike against the ParaStatal South African Transport company. The strike was triggered off by the dismissal of a accused of 'cash irregularities'.
The union now demands only reinstatement of the sacked worker but has added full pay for the duration of the strike and a statement of intent Chilean political prisoners have gone on hunger strike to demand recognition as political prisoners and protest about prison conditions. The political prisoners have decided to take the action in solidarity with 12 political prisoners who are members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), the guerrilla organisation that claims responsibility for the assassination attempt on Pinochet last year. The strike involves more than 400 prisoners and has spread to the 30 prisons in Chile. The lawyers of the FPMR members in prison said that the prisoners have been tortured, placed in solidarity confinement, and that their families have been harassed by the security forces. The torture involves electric shocks, simulnied shootings, being half-drowned in containers of excrement, beatings, rats being put into the prisoners' During his visit Pope John Paul called for 'national reconciliation'. As he even-handedly condemned 'violence by pro-government and popular organisations alike police ran riot against