Issue 3177 of Asha'b Newspaper, 12 January 1983

Printed in Arabic, this includes issue number 3177 of Asha'b Newspaper issued on 12 January 1983, which is a 6-paged daily, political and illustrated newspaper, issued by the Asha'b al-Arabeyyah Press at Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. The issue cost 8 shekels and included a collection of statements, announcements, advertisements and political and sports news including:  - Palestinian-Soviet talks initiated by Yasser Arafat upon his arrival in Moscow in his first meeting with the new Soviet leadership. - The Israeli Ministry of Housing has started building 3 new colonies in the West Bank, each accommodating 400 families. - The arrest of 10 members of the Student Council of an-Najah University in Nablus on charges of organizing an incitement meeting on the occasion of the eighteenth anniversary of the launch of the Fatah movement. - A new division scheme for East Jerusalem to be carried out by the West Jerusalem Municipality. - Yitzhak Rabin, an Israeli Knesset member, stated that Israel's situation in Lebanon is bad, and the elimination of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is an illusion. - Israel's new budget for the year 1984-83 is 1,123 trillion shekels, and inflation is at 130% and low wages. - The perpetrators of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Beirut are still in their positions within the Lebanese Phalange Party. - Three million Arab Americans have no rights in the White House because of the Reagan administration's policy toward the Arab minority in the United States of America (USA). - The arrival of US envoy Philip Habib to the Tel Aviv colony today to discuss the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon.