Arafat rejects Reagan's Palestine proposal

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Arafat rejects Reagan's Palestine proposal By The Associated Press PLO chief Yasser Arafat has spurned President Rea- gan's proposal for Palestinian self-rule in association with Jordan and is calling for an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Arafat, who wants the Palestine Liberation Organization to play a formal role in Middle East peace talks, met with Jordan's King Hussein Sunday for a second day of talks in Amman.

Asked afterwards if he saw merit in Reagan's proposal, he said: "I am sorry, I see nothing because still the Americans completely support ... the Israeli aggression." ate with Israel on behalf of the Palestinians about Reagan's plan.

A GRENADE exploded outside Al-Watani Hospital in Nablus, slightly injuring two Israeli soldiers, and Arab "King Hussein wants it but we don't find it satisfying, " he youths threw stones and slightly injured three Jewish said. "The Palestinians are not going to give a mandate to civilians in Jerusalem's old city. anyone. There was a long struggle for sole representation.

The army said it was investigating reports that an Israeli We are not going to allow anyone to speak for us." motorist trying to escape stone-throwers in the southern The Reagan administration, which refuses to negotiate West Bank shot an Arab youth in the stomach.

Police said directly with the guerrilla movement, had hoped Jordan the youth was hospitalized could represent the PLO in talks.

The 17-year-old nephew of militant American-Israeli Israel, which occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle Rabbi Meir Kahane was detained after he fired an auto- East war, has rejected the Reagan initiative as well as the matic weapon in the air to keep away the stone-throwers. Arab nations' demand for an independent Palestinian police said.

He was not identified because of his age. state. TODAY, Arafat planned to meet in Amman with about half of the PLO's 15-member executive committee, pre- sumably to discuss his talks with Hussein.

On the Israeli-occupied West Bank, close to 400 more Arab high school girls were affected by a mysterious sickness, triggering anti-Israeli violence Sunday and fuel- ing the suspicions of many residents that the Israelis are responsible.

About 800 Arabs, most of them girls, have been hospitalized with nausea and other symptoms since March At the request of the Israeli government, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta dispatched two epidemiologists to Israel to help find the cause of the illness.

Two cars full of Palestinian youths were arrested today in Nablus, the main West Bank city, for spreading a rumor that the water had been poisoned there, the military com- mand in Tel Aviv said. It did not say how many people were arrested.

The Israelis also have refused to withdraw from east Jerusalem, which they captured from Jordan in 1967 On the West Bank, many Palestinians believe the strange sickness is part of an Israeli plot to settle more Jews in the region and make it part of Israel. It was not known why OPEN DAILY 10-10 SUNDAY 1-6 most of those contractng the disease were high school girls.

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Daily 10 am to 6 pm 912-788-8765 IN AMMAN, Jordanian officials declined comment on the Hussein-Arafat talks. But Khalil al-Wazzar, an Arafat deputy better known as Abu Jihad, said the Palestine Liberation Organization would not allow Hussein to negoti- SPEC.

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"Arafat rejects Reagan's Palestine proposal," The Macon News, 4 April 1983. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1983-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1983-007