Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 551, 22 September 1988

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 551 of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 22 September 1988, features the following topics: 1. Palestinian leadership's meetings in Tunis determine proposed decisions drafted for the National Council. 2. Broad clashes and intense raids in Tulkarm, four killed and 197 wounded in five days. 3. Yaser Arafat: The PLO has not given up on forming an interim government. 4. Gemayel arrives suddenly in Damascus: Intense Syrian-Lebanese contacts to choose a consensual candidate for the Lebanese presidency. 5. The Soviet Union in the lead with the number of Olympic medals. 6. The Military Appeals Committee continues to consider objections. 7. In an entire village, no one accepted the removal of slogans. 8. The Cause of Palestine is on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly. 9. Arab consensus on the need to confront the new Israeli satellite. The launch of the Israeli satellite was accomplished with American technological and financial support. 10. Farmers in Zaytun Quarter protest against new "manoeuvres" the Works Department is carrying out against them. 11. The Israeli Supreme Court: The Military Governor is a substitute for the British High Commissioner. 12. Taysir ʿĀrury in a letter to the Israeli and Palestinian Creators Committee: Peace will not be achieved until the Occupation ends and my people gain their freedom. 13. The forty-first week of the Intifada. 14. Shaheeds of the fortieth week. 15. A tight military siege on the village of Burqa. 16. The closure of educational centres in the West Bank until further notice. 17. The Intifada strikes Israeli commercial deals in the Occupied Territories, especially land deals. 18. Arresting more than half of the Board of the "closed" Jericho Workers Union. 19. The Intifada in Burma continues despite the military coup. 20. Shultz reveals some features of the "plastic surgery" of his initiative before the arrival of Peres and Abdel-Majid, the US administration insists on the hostility approach against Palestinians and the blind support of Israel. 21. An Egyptian disengagement from self-rule is required. 22. A Sudanese opposition of new laws. 23. Kurdish villages are destroyed and fields are burned.