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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Police arrested seve-
[jl Palestinians, including a PLO bodyguard with
inks to terrorist Abu Nidal, after the assassina-
lions of three PLO officials. But many Arabs
ilamed Israel.
Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories
pured into the streets to protest the assassina-
jons, waving black mourning flags and the trico
lor banner of Palestine. Israeli army gunfire
ied three people and wounded 74.
Israel flatly denied involvement. “We had
nothing to do with it,” Israeli Defense Minister
Sloshe Arens told ABC-TV.
Killed Monday night were Salah Khalaf, sec
ond in command to PLO chairman Yasser Ar-
ifat; Hayel Abdel-Hamid, the PLO’s security
thief; and Abu Mohammed al-Omari, Khalafs
thief body guard.
Arafat returned Tuesday from Baghdad to
the Tunis headquarters of the Palestine Liber
ation Organization, canceling a trip to Paris. The
PLO eulogized Khalaf and Abdel-Hamid as lead
ers who symbolized the Palestinian cause and
lauded al-Omari as a PLO fighter.
A statement from Fatah, the main branch of
the PLO, said the gunman, identified by the PLO
and Tunisian officials as Hamza Abu Zid, was a
“planted agent who undertook dealing with trai
torous parties.”
“This crime will never be left without punish
ment,” the statement said.
However, the statement dropped earlier PLO
accusations that the killings were sponsored by
Israel, and gave weight to reports the gunman
was allied with Abu Nidal, Arafat’s sworn enemy.
There was no statement from Abu Nidal.
PLO security sources said Abu Zid split from
Abu Nidal, head of the Fatah-Revolutionary
Council, during a mutiny in Libya. The sources,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said Abu
Zid came to Tunis six months ago and was hired
as Abdel-Hamid’s bodyguard.
Palestinian sources said one gunman killed the
three PLO officials. The Tunisian police report
indicated there was one gunman, but Tunisian
officials said other Palestinians were arrested.
“All people implicated in this attack were ar
rested,” the official TAP news agency reported,
adding all are “Palestinians known to the PLO.”
Israeli army radio said as many as a dozen people
were arrested.
The police report made public Tuesday said
the three men were killed with two Kalishnikov
automatic rifles. Initial reports said the gunman
used an AK-47 assault rifle.
Shevardnadze replaced
Diplomat named to position
MOSCOW (AP) — President Mik-
sail S. Gorbachev sought to put
|U.S.-Soviet relations back on track
Tuesday by replacing Foreign Min
ster Eduard A. Shevardnadze with
ike Soviet ambassador to Washing-
Itn.
Gorbachev nominated veteran
liplomat Alexander A. Bessmert-
jjiykh, one of the country’s top spe-
alists on the United States, to take
jiarge of Soviet foreign policy. The
supreme Soviet legislature quickly
approved his choice.
In Washington, White House
Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater
relcomed Bessmertnykh’s appoint-
uent, which was effective immedi
ately.
“The president has known him
for a number of years,” Fitzwater
said. “And he’s been very instrumen
tal in shaping U.S.-Soviet relations.
We know him well, respect him. We
can work with him.”
The legislature was nearly unani
mous in ratifying Gorbachev’s
choice. As the vote of 421-3 was an
nounced, Gorbachev turned and
smiled at Bessmertnykh, who had
flown back from Washington to at
tend the legislative session. Lawmak
ers broke into applause.
“The policy of new thinking ... will
be preserved and developed,” he
told lawmakers.
Bessmertnykh, 57, becomes the
first Soviet foreign minister with a
diplomatic background rather than
one in the Communist Party or gov
ernment bureaucracy.
“It is a good choice,” Nikolajs Nei-
lands, a former deputy Latvian for
eign minister, told reporters. “He is
intelligent and a professional. ... He
is one of the best experts about the
United States.”
Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev,
who joined Bessmertnykh in super
power arms talks and is an adviser to
Gorbachev, called him “a very capa
ble diplomat.”
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The gov
ernment and striking bus drivers be-
gan presenting evidence Tuesday on
whether Greyhound Lines Inc. used
illegal bargaining tactics that forced
abitter strike 10 months ago.
About 100- proteif^ri 11 'chanted
‘Scabs out, union in','’ 1 and carried
placards outside the federal building
where the National Labor Relations
Board began its hearing against the
only nationwide intercity bus com-
'■ pany.
“I’m here to see that justice is
done,” said Charles Randolph, 52, of
Milwaukee, a bus Greyhound driver
for 21 years before he and 6,000
other drivers were fired for striking
last March.
“It’s about fair progress for the
workers who helped make a name
for the company,” said Randolph, a
father of three children. “We have
kids we want to send to college.”
Inside the building, Administra
tive Law Judge Robert Giannasi ac
cepted the NLRB’s 122-page com
plaint alleging Greyhound unfairly
declared an impasse in negotiations
and intimidated striking workers be
fore firing them.
He must rule whether the com
pany violated federal labor laws
when it declared an impasse before
talks broke down, implemented its
own contract proposal without
union consent and hired 3,000 re
placement workers.
The government and Amalga
mated Council of Greyhound Local
Unions are seeking reinstatement of
the 6,000 unionized drivers and
back pay, NLRB attorney Phil Bloe-
dorn said.
Greyhound officials have declined
to discuss their defense for the hear
ing but have denied any wrong
doing, saving an impasse did exist.
IRS answers
tax questions
over phone
WASHINGTON (AP) — The In
ternal Revenue Service spends a lot
of effort to make its forms and in
structions more understandable but
a glance at your 1990 tax package
might lead you to believe the job is
still not complete.
If, after getting down to work on
your return, you run into questions
that do not seem to be answered in
the instructions, the IRS offers seve
ral forms of assistance.
You may take your questions to
your local IRS office or use the toll-
free telephone number for your
area that is listed in the instructions.
The process will work best if you
make your questions as specific as
possible and have available records
that will help you respond to queries
from the IRS person.
IRS telephone assistants gave the
correct answer 77 percent of the
time last year, an improvement from
64 percent the previous year. But if
you don’t trust them, consider using
Tele-Tax. This is a system of tape-
recorded answers to questions on
140 different tax topics, ranging
from how to claim the earned-in-
come credit to what you should do
when you receive an IRS notice of
tax due.
The toll-free number for Tele-
Tax in your area is in the back of
your tax package, along with a list of
tax topics.
If you start work on your tax re
turn early enough, you should have
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