Issue 4849 of Asha'b Newspaper, 17 October 1987

Printed in Arabic, this includes issue number 4849 of Asha'b Newspaper issued on 17 October 1987 and focused on several subjects including: - Yasser Arafat is heading a Palestinian delegation that includes representatives of all Palestinian factions to attend the emergency Arab summit meetings to be held in Amman. - An attack on Kuwait by firing a missile that hit the oil tanker "Sea Isle City", which is flying the American flag, in Kuwaiti territorial waters. - Consultations between several Arab leaders to form a working group aimed at mediating on the sidelines of the extraordinary Arab summit to conduct a series of reconciliations between them. - The Nablus Municipal Council held a session headed by Hafez Toukan, the mayor, during which it issued 114 building permits. - The General Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party met in Tunisia with Yasser Arafat and asked Arafat to intervene to release the Italians kidnapped in Iraq. - Congratulations from the family of the Palestinian Office and al-Awda magazine to Jibril Rajoub on his marriage. - The Arab Organization for Human Rights confirmed that the Syrian regime has crammed hundreds of Palestinian citizens into the commando police prison in Damascus, which cannot accommodate more than 200 people only. - The United States of America (USA) and Israel voted against a draft resolution in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly calling for increased cooperation between the UN and the Arab League.