Thb'Michihan Daily-Tuesday, July 22, 1980-Page 7 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 Burg told Israel radio. "lrentkkt,.n.ihrb Free Press, truckers --1 temporarily svudKE reach p act I M, Te Thur, F, 75.935 Mn, .,,F (Continued from Page 6) wed Matinee Adults $1 50 Lawrence said it was "too early" to Untl 2:00 P O a guage the strike's economic impact on . the newspaper. XAMWT IGHT He said, however, the walkout has E had "an emotional and a psychic im- pact on Free Press people of sizeable OBE IN proportion." THE FREE PRESS has beden THER publishing a joint edition with the rival Detroit News during the labor dispute. - A UNIVERSAL PICTURE ® UuedAtis Members of The Newspaper Guild, - I.. which includes reporters, have honored the Teamster picket lines. The Teamsters walked out after TTOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT :rTMRO TMDIH rejecting a contract offer similar to one TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT TOMORROW AT Mu already ratified by Teamster workers "CUL CLASSIC .VOITE HE FLM at The News. Other unions at The News and Free 2ND H Press either ratified or have tentatively YEAR agreed to the economic package rejec- ted by the Free Press Teamsters. A ratification vote is scheduled for Sun- r day by about 800 News and Free Press r t z ; members of The Guild, who reached a t sun tentative agreement June 20. shine in t Harold . hiR Use Daily Md HAIR C Maude Classifieds 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. The best fireplace fuels-hardwoods such as rock elm, hickory, white oak, maple, beech and birch-burn slowly with plenty of heat.