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Al-Ahram Weekly 25 February - 3 March 1999 Issue No. 418 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 25 February - 3 March 1999 Issue No. 418
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Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Features Travel Living Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters Fair trial
MORE than 100 Arab editors, academics, labour activists and former ministers have urged Turkey to give Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan a fair and public trial, and to work for a just and democratic solution to the Kurdish problem in Turkey. In a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Cairo on Tuesday, the activists said they plan to urge citizens around the Arab world to denounce Turkey's intention to hold proceedings against Ocalan in camera.Among those who signed the petition were Osama El-Ghazali Harb, editor of the quarterly review International Politics, Rifaat El-Said, secretary-general of the left-wing Tagammu (both members of Egypt's Shura Council) and Ahmed El-Haboubi, a former Iraqi minister. (see p.5)
Arnoun action
LEBANON has asked the Security Council to take action against Israel for annexing the village of Arnoun to the border strip it has occupied for the past 21 years. The move was decided by President Emil Lahud and Prime Minister Salim Al-Hoss on Tuesday, after the international committee monitoring the truce failed to take action over the annexation. At the end of a two-day meeting, the committee failed to agree on a common course of action.Meanwhile, the loss of three Israeli army officers in a clash on Tuesday with Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon sparked widespread calls in Israel for peace talks with Syria to resume. "The solution of the Lebanon crisis can only come from Syria," Defence Minister Moshe Arens said.
see Final blow to a dying villageSettler radio
ISRAEL'S Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition have pushed legislation through parliament legalising pirate radio stations run by Jewish settlers and ultra-Orthodox activists. Netanyahu's coalition ignored objections from the opposition Labour Party and a warning from the attorney general.The move has infuriated Palestinians, who had sought US intervention to avert this action. The Palestinians said the stations encouraged acts of terrorism in defiance of Israel's commitments under the US-brokered Wye River agreement, AFP reported.
