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From: UPI
Subject: Palestinian deportees return to camp  BY SAEED MAALLAWI
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:48:56 GMT
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	MARJ AL ZOUHOUR, Lebanon (UPI) -- Palestinian deportees returned
Tuesday to their makeshift tent camp after spending a rainy night in the
open near an Israeli checkpoint in southern Lebanon, witnesses said.
	The 415 deportees came under machine gun and artillery fire during
the night, the witnesses reported. The Palestinians had moved to the
Israeli side of the strip of land they have been left to occupy when
Lebanese Army troops forced evacuation of the camp on Monday.
	One of the deportees, Wael Hindiya, was wounded in his left hand,
raising the number of injured since Monday to three. Hindiya was taken
to by the Lebanese Army to a hospital in the village of Rashaya.
	At least 30 of the Palestinians are suffering from acute diarrhea and
three others from fever because of the freezing weather they have had
endure since being forced out of Israel late Thursday.
	``We returned to the camp,'' said the deportees' spokesman Abdel Aziz
Rantissi. ``We could not stand the cold weather and heavy rain.''
	On Monday, the Lebanese Army ordered the deportees to leave their
camp situated between the Lebanese-controlled Marj Al Zouhour and the
Zimraya gate manned by Israeli troops and their proxy South Lebanon Army
at the northern border of Israel's self-declared security zone.
	The deportees left their tents, lined up on the road and began a one-
mile trek toward the Zimarya gate where they were met by artillery and
machine-gun fire from the Israeli checkpoint, leaving two deportees
wounded.
	Lebanon barred all humanitarian organizations, including the
International Committee of the Red Cross, from entering the camp, saying
that relief workers, food and supplies should come from the Israeli
side.
	Only reporters and cameramen had permission to enter the camp on
Monday.
	Lebanon has steadfastly refused to admit the deportees, who were
dropped at the site in a driving rain late Thursday by Israel. They were
protected only by rain coats, but humanitarian organizations quickly set
up a tent city for them.
	The decision to move the deportees came after the Lebanese Government
vowed again Sunday not to allow the Palestinians into the country.

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From: UPI
Subject: Army ordered to push back Palestinian deportees
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:01:33 GMT
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	BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- The Lebanese Army on Monday began to force
some 415 Palestinian deportees back inside the border area in southern
Lebanon under the control of Israeli forces, a Lebanese Army source
said.
	``The Army command has informed the deportees of the need to return
from where they came,'' the source said.
	He said Lebanese soldiers and policemen ``are pushing them back to
the passageway of Zimrayya towards the Israeli occupied security zone.''
	The source said orders were also given to prevent ``the passage of
all humanitarian organizations, including the Red Cross and all
assistance and aid towards the region'' where the deportees have
established their camp.
	The move came after the Lebanese government vowed again Sunday not to
allow the deportees into the country.
	``In that way, they will remain a problem in the face of the Israelis
and not for us,'' Defense Minister Mohsen Dalloul said. He added the
world cannot stand idle ``and keep on watching their ordeal.''
	Dalloul also reaffirmed Sunday that his government would deny entry
to the refugees.
	Deputy Mohammed Kabbani warned that the Lebanese authorities will
never allow the Palestinians into ``our territories even if they have to
resort to force.''
	Former Prime Minister Amin Al Hafez said he feared the Israeli
deportations ``would be a prelude for settling Palestinians in Lebanon.''
	Palestinians spent Sunday demonstrating in protest of Israel's
expulsion of the activists from the fundamentalist Hamas and Islamic
Jihad organizations.
	About 200 Palestinian students gathered at the International
Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in the port city of Sidon, 24
miles south of Beirut, and handed ICRC officials a memorandum urging U.
N. Secretary-General Butros Butros-Ghali to implement a resolution
demanding the return of the deportees to the Israeli-occupied West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
	For the 415 deportees, Sunday marked their third night in the open
between the Marj Al Zouhour manned by the Lebanese Army and the Israeli-
controlled Zimrayya gate was marked by flares and bursts fired by the
Israelis that lighted the sky over their camp.
	Early Sunday, Israeli artillery bombarded hills overlooking the camp
in an attempt to force the deportees to move further north toward the
Lebanese checkpoint.
	``We are determined to return to our land,'' said the deportees
spokesman, Abdel Aziz Rantissi. ``We are used to Israeli terrorist and
savage actions but this time we will expose them before the whole world.
''
	At dawn, the deportees lined up to pray and later decided to name the
camp ``Al Qods-The return.''
From: fahs@ecf.toronto.edu (FAHS Samir M)
Subject: Xmas and New Year wishes.
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:01:30 GMT


Now that many of us will be taking off on a short vacation for the holidays,
Best Wishes are due to Everyone of 

                   A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

in hopes that the year to come will only carry along with it the Peace 
and prosperity for a country and a world that desperately needs them.

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From: edu 
Subject: test
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:02:57 EST

test, ignore it please.


--
Mike Mickee
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From: ziad@eng.umd.edu (Ziad K. Cheiban)
Subject: Re: Syria, President Bush and Drugs -- the Administration's Next Iraqgate
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 00:32:45 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Dec23.135018.25705@njitgw.njit.edu> elie@hdtv.njit.edu (Elie I. Mourad) writes:
[ outline of report by rep. Charles Schummer on Syria's involvement
in the drug trade based in Lebanon deleted.]

It is no longer a secret that there is a major campaign by pro-Israel
elements in congress and in the press against Hafez el-Asad.
It is in many ways remindful of the one against Saddam Hussein before
he even invaded Kuwait. The charge against him was mainly
trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
I doubt that Hafez el-Asad will be stupid enough to provide the
coming administration with an excuse to attack Syria. The old man
is too smart for that, besides the recent example of Iraq would
prevent any fool from provoking the U.S.
  Having said that I fail to see why some Lebanese (who oppose the
Syrian regime) take such joy in seeing those reports.
Is this the first time they learn that Syria is involved in the drug trade?
Do they think the CIA didn't know about it before and that now that the
U.S. government knows it's going to do something about it?
Don't they know that in the event of a confrontation el-Asad will back
down if only momentarily rather than be destroyed?
Don't they remember that despite Michel Aoun's impassionate diatribes
against Syrian involvement in the drug trade the same U.S. sacrificed him
for Syrian **token** participation in the Gulf War?
Do they think that Clinton's number one priority would be to curb
drug trade coming from the Bekaa?
In other words what's the point in posting stale news?
Do they think they have advanced their cause?
Can't they find anything more constructive to do?

I don't know, I'm asking.


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From: UPI
Subject: Exchange Rates (Mon Dec 21 1992)
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:11:52 GMT
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                      USD per LL      LL per USD
                      Mon     Fri     Mon     Fri

Lebanon pnd       .000538 .000538 1858.00 1858.00
From: z_ablesrl@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Import/Export research
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:22:35 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Hello all,

	We are doing research on various items that international countries
would be interested in exporting and importing.  The items can consist of
anything from clothing to large machines.  Of course, they must be a legal
product to enter and exit the different countries.  These are some questions 
that we are trying to find the answers to:
 
1.) How would we gather information concerning the legal regulations on
	shipping to or from Lebanon? 

2.) Who would an individual contact in that country about shipping
	requirements?  

3.) What kind of licences or paper work does a company need to enter
	that foreign market place?


I really would appreciate any help concerning this matter.  Thank you very
much for your time and hope to hear from you soon.




Sincerely,


Ron Ables

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From: UPI
Subject: Palestinian deportees return to camp
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:51:46 GMT
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	MARJ AL ZOUHOUR, Lebanon (UPI) -- Palestinian deportees returned
Tuesday to their makeshift tent camp after spending a rainy night in the
open near an Israeli checkpoint in southern Lebanon, witnesses and
security sources said.
	The 415 deportees came under machine gun and artillery fire during
the night, the witnesses reported. The Palestinians had moved to the
Israeli side of the strip of land they have been left to occupy when
Lebanese Army troops forced evacuation of the camp on Monday.
	Two deportees were wounded in the shelling, raising the number of
injured since Monday to five, the witnesses said. Wael Hindiya was
wounded in his left hand and taken to a Lebanese hospital.
	Upon returning to the camp, the deportees discovered that one was
missing, the witnesses said. They returned to the vicinity of the
Zimraya gate where they spent the night and found him laying on the
ground severely wounded.
	Some 100 Israeli soldiers backed by 15 vehicles and a minesweeper
crossed the Zimraya gate and took up combat positions Tuesday. The
Israeli troops planted mines on the road and set up a huge sand
barricades, the sources said.
	Israel Radio said the soldiers were instructed to bar the deportees
from entering Israel's self-declared ``security zone.''
	Three other sick deportees were also evacuated to hospital, witnesses
said.
	At least 30 of the Palestinians are suffering from acute diarrhea and
three others from fever because of the freezing weather they have had to
endure since being forced out of Israel late Thursday.
	``We returned to the camp,'' said the deportees' spokesman Abdel Aziz
Rantissi. ``We could not stand the cold weather and heavy rain.''
	On Monday, the Lebanese Army ordered the deportees to leave their
camp situated between the Lebanese-controlled Marj Al Zouhour and the
Zimraya gate manned by Israeli troops and their proxy South Lebanon Army
at the northern border of Israel's self-declared security zone.
	The deportees left their tents, lined up on the road and began a one-
mile trek toward the Zimarya gate where they were met by artillery and
machine-gun fire from the Israeli checkpoint, leaving two deportees
wounded.
	Lebanon barred all humanitarian organizations, including the
International Committee of the Red Cross, from entering the camp, saying
that relief workers, food and supplies should come from the Israeli
side.
	Only reporters and cameramen had permission to enter the camp on
Monday.
	Lebanon has steadfastly refused to admit the deportees, who were
dropped at the site in a driving rain late Thursday by Israel. They were
protected only by rain coats, but humanitarian organizations quickly set
up a tent city for them.
	The decision to move the deportees came after the Lebanese government
vowed again Sunday not to allow the Palestinians into the country.
From: UPI
Subject: Exchange Rates (Fri Dec 25 1992)
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:05:23 GMT
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                      USD per LL      LL per USD
                      Thu     Wed     Thu     Wed

Lebanon pnd       .000543 .000543 1841.00 1841.00

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From: ccgary@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Gary Young)
Subject: Names of airline companies & flying schools
Summary: I would like names & addresses of airline companies & flying schools
Keywords: Names & addresses of airline companies
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:45:53 GMT

I'am very interested in obtaining names and addresses of airline companies and  flying schools in your country.
I would like to correspond to overseas airline companies to offer trainees and  students the opportunity to learn to fly professionally and at the same time
obtain a degree in aviation at the Air Training Centre, Brisbane, Queensland.
For further information contact Gary Young

Thanking You

Gary Young                                          Education Officer
Prentice Centre                                  Tel: +61 7 365 4359
The University of Queensland                     Fax: +61 7 364 4477
Queensland, 4072                             Email: ccgary@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au
Australia
_______________________________________________________________________________

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From: UPI
Subject: Vatican agrees to intensify its contacts with the Palestinians
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:41:01 GMT
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	VATICAN CITY (UPI) -- Tha Vatican has agreed to intensify its contacts
with Palestinians inside and outside the Israeli-occupied territories in
the interest of a Middle East peace accord, the chief Vatican spokesman
said Wednesday.
	Chief spokesman Joaquin Navarro Valls disclosed the decision in a
statement detailing a meeting late Tuesday between Farouk Kaddoumi, head
of the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
and Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican's unofficial foreign
minister.
	Kaddoumi is on a three-day visit to Rome to seek support from the
Italian government, Europe and the Vatican in the wake of the Israeli
expulsion of more than 400 Palestinian extremists.
	Navarro said Kaddoumi and Tauran discussed ``the peace process for
the Middle East, (and) the situation in the occupied territories, with
particular reference to the most recent sad events.''
	He said both sides strongly stressed their ``concern that there could
be a halt in the negotiations under way between the state of Israel and
the other parties involved in the peace process, or that these
negotiations might not lead fairly quickly to some concrete result.
	``Monsignor Tauran and the Palestinian leader declared themselves in
complete agreement on the need to do everything possible to avoid a
recourse to violence and to emphasize dialogue as the only valid means
of seeking peace,'' Navarro's statement said.
	``In this context, there was a common proposal to intensify contacts
between representatives of the Holy See and Palestinian personalities of
the territories and the diaspora,'' it said.
	At a separate news conference held outside the Vatican, Kaddoumi said
a joint bilateral commission between the Vatican and the Palestinians
would be set up ``as soon as agreement can be reached on some
procedures.''
	He said the main purpose of the commission would be to discuss the
status of Jerusalem, in which the Vatican has been seeking guarantees of
free access to the shrines of the three religions -- Christian, Muslim
and Jewish -- for which Jerusalem is a Holy City.
	Kaddoumi said the PLO considers East Jerusalem as ``an integral part
of the land of Palestine.''
	Kaddoumi stressed the importance of Europe and the Vatican in 
``pushing ahead the peace process without discrimination between the
parties,'' and warned that the peace process could collapse if Israel
continued to refuse the return of the expelled Palestinians.
	He said the return of the Palestinian delegation to the negotiating
table depended on Israel permitting the return of the expelled group.
	Kaddoumi said the Labor government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin ``wants to impose its will on the Palestinians with violence and
force'' and said ``the Intifada (Palestinian uprising) will continue as
long as the Israeli occupation remains.''

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From: ccav38@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("I.Ballouz")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Re: Palestinian deportees turned back by Lebanese
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:29:15 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde

In article <AJW=9-A@engin.umich.edu> hani@civil4.engin.umich.edu (Hani Abinassif) writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec19.221119.0112674@locus.com>, jle@lear.bos.locus.com (John Elghani) writes:
>[..]
>> 
>> I understand that the 400+ may windup at the battle front with israel,
>> but did you prefer they should've killed them, or kept them
>> in jail for life.
>> 
>> jle
>
>What's your point?
>I am not sure I can follow on how your answer relates to what Ibrahim
>is saying.
>-Hani

Hani, I wish you did not waste your time. 
Funny how a man who was mocking muslims, their belief and traditions some 
time ago is coming to defend the "Hamas-is" who are committed to the same 
religion and belief...
Ibrahim


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From: UPI
Subject: Exchange Rates (Tue Dec 22 1992)
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:02:12 GMT
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                      USD per LL      LL per USD
                      Tue     Mon     Tue     Mon

Lebanon pnd       .000543 .000538 1841.00 1858.00

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From: jalil@gasface.UUCP (Jalil M. Farah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Re: Happy New Year!! 1st post of 1993!!!
Date: 2 Jan 1993 02:31:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Junkie

In article <1993Jan1.053111.9820@ac.dal.ca> tage@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>      Happy New Year!!! We had a Lebanese party at my house last night and we
>had Fairuz and countless belly-dancing songs playing at 300 decibles!!!!!
>
>   Hope you enjoyed your new years as well!  Maybe 1993 can be the year that
>Lebanon starts taking its destiny into its own hands!!
>
>
>                                            Tony El Hajj

     Happy New Year to you too!  There was a couple of Lebanese parties
around here too.  It was excellent.  A lot of people showed up this year to
various parties in Windsor than did last year.  Anyways, Happy NEW YEAR!

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From: philo@athena.mit.edu (philo)
Subject: Fairuz coming to US
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:23:18 GMT


Hi, 
I heard that Fairuz was going to do a tour of the US in march or something. Does
anyone know what cities she is visiting, and any other details (e.g. is Ziad
coming with her, is it his music that she is singing, how much the tickets going
to be,etc...)

Anyway, hope I will get to see her this time around.
-philo.
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				(Ziad)
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From: baddak@numbat.pad.otc.com.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Where is everybody?
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:43:04 GMT
Organization: AOTC Limited

Apparently I've been away for a long time.

Where is everybody?

HELLO?

Caesar.
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