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MID-EAS T VIOLENCE GR OWS IN PARIS
Former Syrian premier shot
PARIS (UPI)-An assassin with a days after sln assassination attempt exiles and political refugees, saying 10
silencer-equipped pistol killed a major against former Iranian Prime Minister per cent of the capital's 19,500-man
Arab exile figure yesterday in the Shapour Bakhtiar that cost the lives of police force is preoccupied with
second outbreak of Middle East a police officer and a woman bystan- providing security for them.
political violence in Paris In three days. der. QUOTING POLICE SOURCES,
Salaheddin al-Bitar, 68, former Police saw no direct link between French news reports said Anis Nac-
Syrian premier and co-founder of the the attacks, but the latest one added each, Lebanese leader of the six-man
Baathist movement whose offshoots fuel to a growing outcry about violence assassination team, told interrogators
now rule in Syria and Iraq, was found in the large community of Middle East he had been given his orders personally
dead in a hallway outside offices of the -exiles and diplomats in Paris. Twelve by Palestine Liberation Organization
political journal he published, less than people have died in 11 such incidents in chairman Yasser Arafat.
a block from the famed Arc de Triom- the past two years. The Paris public prosecutor declined
phe. Police unions have criticized Fran- to comment on the case, but PLO of-
AL-BITAR'S DEATH came three ce's open-door policy toward Mideast ficials called the charge "ridiculous"
Israel puts dept s in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (AP) - In a defiant An emergency session of the U.N. Jerusalem. Only the Defense Ministry
gesture toward the United Nations, General Assembly is to convene today will remain based in Tel Aviv, the
Israel decided yesterday to transfer to debate the Middle East. Israel says nation's business capital
two government departments from Tel the meeting' is illegal since an All government rministries keep of-
Aviv to Jerusalem to further strengthen emergency session can be called only if fices in both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
its Hold on the disputed city it regards there is an immediate threat to peace. Most departments have moved the bulk
as its capital. But the full Cabinet, meeting Sunday, of their operations to Jerusalem for
The Cabinet's committee on rejected a proposal to boycott the political reasons.
Jerusalem approved . moving the sesion. Prime Minister Menachem Begin
agriculture and housing ministries NO TIMETABLE was set for the plans to shift his office from the
from their Tel Aviv offices after the transfer, which virtually completes a predominantly Jewish west side of
treasury withdrew its objections that it program begun in 1973 to move all Jerusalem to East Jerusalem, which
could not finance the move. government headquarters to was captured from Jordan and annexed.
"WE WANT TO strengthen - -
Jerusalem as the capital," said Interior
Minister Yosef Burg, who chairs the
Cabinet committee.
"At a time when they are calling a
special session of the United Nations, The birday Cae is part
which is united against us more than on i
any other subject, it is only just that the
world know that the people of Israel has
decided Jerusalem is our capital," .k
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and Palestinian sources in Paris
discounted it, saying Arafat would not
have become personally involved.
The French government said in a
statement it will investigate the attack
on Bakhtiar "very actively abroad
Is well as in France to determine the
origin and those responsible for this
operation."
Diplomtic sources said it was clear
from a protest lodged with Iran that
France believes the Tehran regime was
involved in the murder plot.
Detectives said al-Bitar died from a
single bullet wound in the back of the
head as he was arriving for work. The
assassin, believed to have been alone,
escaped. Investigators said they had no
immediate clues to his identity.
Al-Bitar, one of two founders of the
Baath Party, held the Syrian premier-
ship and several other important posts
before being expelled in a power
struggle in 1966.
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