Issue 4840 of Asha'b Newspaper, 8 October 1987

Printed in Arabic, this includes issue number 4840 of Asha'b Newspaper issued on 8 October 1987 and focused on several subjects including: - Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), stressed the need for the PLO to participate in an independent or equal delegation in a joint Arab delegation in the proposed international conference for peace in the Middle East. - An armed clash in the Shejaiya neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip between an armed group and a patrol of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). - The Egyptian authorities deported Colonel Abdullah Dawood from Egypt to an unknown destination. - A popular meeting in Hebron to discuss cancelling the wedding traditions currently in use. - The IOF ambushed cars loaded with stones on Beit Jibrin Road. - The strike carried out by the workers and employees of the Faculty of Science in Abu Dis continues to demand an increase in salaries and health insurance and the formation of an elected committee representing the workers. - The Cultural Club of the Student Union Council at Bethlehem University held a memorial ceremony on the occasion of the forty days of the murder of the artist Naji al-Ali. - An advertisement for the Crescent Society for the Control of Drugs and Poisons in Jerusalem.