Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 544, 4 August 1988

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 544 of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 4 August 1988, features the following topics: - The Higher Education Council is ready to solve the problems private school teachers face. - Twelve homes demolished and closed, curfews and dozens injured in anti-deportation demonstrations. - Trees cut down in Biddya village under the guise of curfew. - The American press: King Hussein tries to pressure Palestinians and hopes for a Jordanian role at their request. - Palestinian consultations on submitting a proposal to place the West Bank and Gaza Strip under the supervision of the United Nations. - The United Nations continues its efforts to stop the Gulf War, Tehran again accuses Baghdad of using toxic bombs. - Palestinian sources in Amman talk about the government in exile. - Moscow Radio: The Jordanian decision to dismantle the legal and administrative relationship increases the status of the Palestine Liberation Organization. - Attali'a: Murphy tries to save what can be saved. - An article by Bashir al-Barghuthy entitled "Yes to the Disengagement Decision, but Doubts are Strong". - Shaheeds of the thirty-third week of the Intifada. - The Israeli tax prosecutions reach homes. - The implementation of deportation against eight citizens, 28 deported since the Intifada. - 2200 trees burned and uprooted in the Occupied Territories within a week. - Not allowing clothes in, a punishment for refusing to work in the Negev Prison. - Israeli air-dropped leaflets demanding that flags be lowered and slogans removed. - Mandela: Freedom or death. - A hundred years since the Internationale. - Excerpts from the Israeli press. - The increase in the exploitation of Palestinian boys in Israeli farms. - The guardian of the absentees' property notifies a family to vacate their property from the land they have cultivated for 29 years. - Residents of Beit Jala deny the military spokesman's account of the shaheeddom of Grace Qanqar. - The decision to break the legal and administrative relationship with the West Bank is a victory for Palestinians and an outcome of the Intifada. - News of deciphering the administrative and legal relationship between Jordan and the West Bank in the American press. - King Fahd faces Washington's arms monopoly. - Peres and Shamir are stubborn advocates of Jordanian-Palestinian unity.