Issue 5973 of Asha'b Newspaper, 22 December 1990

Printed in Arabic, this includes issue number 5973 of Asha'b Newspaper issued on 22 December 1990 and focused on several subjects including: - A child in Rafah was wounded by a live bullet when the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) dispersed demonstrators who threw stones at military patrols in the city. - Germany helped Iraq build the atomic bomb and trained Iraqi nuclear scientists. - US surveillance satellites over the Gulf region fail to detect Iraqi missile launches. - Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz assured the Soviet leaders that his country rejects the American threat, stressing that Baghdad's position will not change. - The play "Majlis al-Adl" by the Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim was shown during the first Jerusalem Festival. - An American envoy surveys the number of caravans that the occupation government has set up for new immigrants in the occupied Palestinian territories. - The Israeli occupation authorities closed four UNRWA schools in Jenin Refugee Camp. - Orders from Arens office of the IOF after using the term "sniper fire". - Palestine Publishing House has released a new publication titled "The Harvest of the Wind", a new collection of short stories by the writer Yaqoub al-Atrash. - Mahmoud Riyad, the former Secretary-General of the Arab League, stressed the need to expedite the development of a security system in which Egypt, Syria and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries participate. - Expanding and strengthening cooperation between Washington and Israel indicates a tendency toward war in the Gulf. - The Gulf crisis is present in the words of the participants in the seventeenth conference of the Union of Arab Writers and Writers in Tunisia. - Simple “muzzle” manufacturing methods to prevent toxic gases.