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Palestine Liberation Organi-
adon chairman Yasser Arafat
ailed from battered west Beirut
londay aboard a white cruise
ip, vowing to continue the
ang march” towards his peo-
jle's dream of a state.
“lam very proud that I parti-
ated in this heroic freedom
fight,” Arafat said before leav
ing, referring to the 2Vs month
stand the PLO made against
Israeli forces.
With U.S. Marines on guard
at the Beirut port, Arafat rode
up the ramp into the Greek-
registered AjJbitis in a bullet-
E foof limousme belonging to
ebanese Prime Minister Chefik
Wazzan.
A 60-man PLO honor guard
stood at attention, waving the
green, red, white and black
Palestinian flag at the edge of
port as their Lebanese militia
allies fired anti-aircraft guns
and artillery in salute.
PLO spokesmen refused to
give Arafat’s immediate destina
tion, but in Athens, a spokesman
for the owners of the Atlantis
said the PLO guerrilla chief was
expected to arrive in the Greek
port of Piraeus Wednesday
morning.
A Greek government spokes
man said Arafat would be mak
ing a two-day visit. Arafat is ex
pected to set up his permanent
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican
ifficials are trying to squelch
ddespread rumors that the
nilitary would attempt to oust
teident Jose Lopez Portillo in
coup this week.
The pro-government El Dia
eportea Sunday that youths
been boarding buses in
lowntown Mexico City showing
flssengers circulars warning
hem to stay off the streets Tues-
lay because of an army
akeover.
Other unsubstantiated
accounts say a coup will occur
during Lopez Portillo’s final
State of the Nation address
Wednesday, where he promised
a full explanation of the coun
try’s current financial crisis.
After several years of
buoyant growth, Mexicans have
been stunned by the recent turn
of fortune — a devalued peso,
70 percent inflation, rising un
employment and almost no re
serves to pay off the $80 million
foreign debt.
In the
effort to enc
jovernmenfs First
the rumors, which
also surfaced during the turbu
lent months before Lopez Portil
lo took office in 1976, a former
Supreme Court chief justice
stated the army was not plotting
a coup.
The government-owned El
Nacional newspaper quoted
Guerrero state Gov. Alejandro
Cervuntes as saying “all Mex
icans are united and we will not
echo these rumors.”
The newspapers noted there
have also been rumors that
Lopez Portillo, who leaves office
Dec. 1, and President-elect
Miguel de la Madrid were critic
ally wounded in attacks.
Although Lopez Portillo has
been keeping a low profile to
prepare his address, recent
appearances show both men are
alive and well.
The government appears to
be taking steps to assure the gos
sip does not spark violence.
Travelers returning recently
from traditionally conservative
northwestern Mexican states
and the oil-producing southeast
reported their cars and buses
were stopped numerous times
by heavily armed police sear
ching for weapons.
French arrest four terrorists
headquarters in the Tunisian
capital of Tunis on the North
African coast.
The Atlantis sailed from
Beirut, accompanied by three
U.S. Navy vessels. On board the
ship with Arafat were several
aides and members of the PLO
information office.
Arafat left after more than
9,100 of his guerrilla fighters
had been evacuated to various
Arab nations under a U.S.-
sponsored agreement that en
ded a fierce Israeli bombing
campaign against the PLO’s west
Beirut stronghold.
At the same time, an esti
mated 1,500 members of the all-
Syrian Arab Deterrent Force,
which was sent to Lebanon to
restore order after the 1975-76
civil war, left west Beirut in a
convoy of about 275 vehicles.
They hauled with them
Soviet-made T-45 and T-52
tanks and numerous armored
personnel carriers.
Before proceeding to the
port, Arafat held a farewell
meeting with his Lebanese allies,
many of whom were in tears, at
the home of leftist leader Walid
Jumblatt.
Arafat wore his traditional
black and white Arab headdress,
the Kiffayeh, fatigues and a
beaded chain in the colors of the
Palestinian flag.
Many of his bodyguards and
members of the honor guard
wept openly as they crowded
around Arafat, chanting and
waving their rifles in the air.
Some 146 wounded Palesti
nian fighters preceded Arafat at
Piraeus today, landing amid
cheering and singing by their
supporters and the sound of
Palestinian bagpipers. An esti
mated 1,740 guerrillas went by
land or sea to Syria Sunday.
The Lebanese militia Moura-
bitoun has replaced Palestinian
guerrillas in some parts of west
Beirut and Israel Sunday
charged the PLO violated the
evacuation agreement by turn
ing over its heavy weapons to the
Mourabitoun.
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PARIS — Special police com-
nandos let loose in President
rancois Mitterrand’s war on
trrorism arrested at least four
ilernational terrorists in a
weep of the French capital,
Burces said Monday.
Three of the terrorists
rrested in a weekend sweep
lere members of the Irish Re-
mblican Army plotting to attack
Iritish citizens and institutions
in France, a well-informed offi
cial source said.
The source, who asked not to
be identified, said the two men
and a woman apprehended in a
suburban apartment house late
Saturday were Irish nationals
planning an attack against the
British military attache in the
French capital.
Police spokesmen refused to
comment on the suspects’ ter
rorist affiliation.
A total blackout on official
information was imposed after a
spokesman for Mitterrand Sun
day announced the arrests by
crack commandos known as the
National Police Intervention
Group, GIGN.
The identification of the sus
pects as IRA members con
flicted with another report of
their alleged terrorist affilia
tions.
Police in Italy identified
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may be key to aging
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LONDON — Many factors go
■ rjBnto the complex process known
i" ld53 w t aging but one of the more
ll (in ,' important of them —- the slow-
ngdown of enzyme action with
he years — is beginning to yield
ts secrets.
Scientists at the Weizmann
tistitute of Science in Israel
. uve found that in old rats re-
>on t le p ) ucec | act ivity in the enzymes re-
•onsible tor many key biologic-
processes may be due to minor
hemical changes rather than
mything fundamental.
“If these studies are found to
ply to man as well,” said the
institute’s magazine, “it may well
)e possible to consider develop
ing methods of preventing or
even reversing such enzyme
ilowdown and thereby ame-
iorating some of the problems
Mold age.”
Enzymes are complex pro
teins critical to life processes.
They stimulate chemical reac-
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cess.
The magazine, reporting on
the work of biophysicist Dr. Ari
Gafni of the Department of
Chemical Physics, said he was
working with the enzyme known
as GPDH, or glyceraldehyde-3-
phosphate dehydrogenase,
which helps the body rid itself of
the products of the breakdown
of glucose in physical exercise.
“Some time ago,” Gafni said,
“scientists began to realize that
enzymes extracted from senes
cent animals can exhibit signifi
cantly lower biological activities
than the same product obtained
from their younger counter
parts.
“As a result researchers have
begun looking for the reasons
for this age-related deteriora
tion of enzyme effectiveness,
and thereby providing some
clues to at least one aspect of the
riddle of aging.”
Gafni said that in advanced
age, enzymes tend to remain
longer inside cells before they
are broken down and replaced.
This longer residence may re
sult in a type of chemical modifi
cation of the cell involving ox
ygen which can often be re
versed.
In his experiments, purified
enzyme extracted from young
animals was exposed in the
laboratory to an oxidizing pro
cess and the result showed re
markable similarities to the en
zyme samples obtained from old
rats.
“Of course, the study of a
single enzyme can only add a
small piece to the giant jigsaw
puzzle of aging, the overall de
sign of which will only become
more apparent when many
more pieces are put in place,”
Gafni said.
Gafni’s work is supported by
the U.S.-Israel Binational Scien
ce Foundation.
another suspect arrested Sun
day as an ultra-leftist with links
to the Red Brigades.
Police investigators in Rome
said the latest suspect to be cap
tured was Oreste Scalzone, an
Italian ultra-leftist once linked
to the Red Brigades and arms
smuggling operations.
The investigators said Italian
police officials are in Paris help
ing their French counterparts in
the case. They would give no de
tails of the operation in Paris.
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