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1. SOUTH AFRICA: NEW COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER
S. INDIA-CHINA: PREMIER'S VISIT MARKS IMPROVING TIES
PALESTINIANS: HARDLINE FACTIONS ON DEFENSIVE
IRAQ: SADDAM'S RELATIVES ATTACKED
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OUTH AFRICA: NEW COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER
ANC FIREBRAND AND MILITARY LEADER CHRIS HANI WAS ELECTED YESTERDAY SECRETARY GENERALHE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY, DtSPITE THE OPPOSITIIN OF SOKE TOP ANC LEADERS. INCLUDINGLA TO RESUME THE ARMED STRUGGLE HAVE LONG UNNERVED WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS AND IRRITATED MORE MODERATE ANC COLLEAGUES. FORMER HEAD JOB SLOVO, WHO IS SUFFERING FHOM BONE CANCER, BECAME THE PARTY'S NATIONAL CHAIRMAN.
IS POPULAR WITH YOUNGER, MORE RADICAL ANC HIS ELECTION IS LIKELY TO BOOST SACP RECRUITINGEY REASON FOR HIS DECISION TO BUCK THE ANC HIERARCHY.
fMPETUOUSNESS* HOWEVER, IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE TO ANNOY TO I1 ANC OFFICIALS, WHO WILL NOW HAVE EVEN LESS INFLUENCE .OVER HIM NOW HTS 0WN INDEPENDENT POWER EASE, AND MAY EXACERBATE TENSIONS IN THE ANC SACP ALLIANCE. ALTHOUGH HE IS LIKELY TO STAY ON THE ANCS NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, HANI WILL FOCUS ON BUILDING THE SACP'S
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DURING LI PENG'S VISIT TO INDIA NEXT WEEK--THE FIRSTHINESE PREMIEREW DELHI AND BEIJING PROBABLY WILL AGREE TO REOPEN CONSULATES IN SHANGHAI AND BOMBAY, TO RESUME CROSS BORDER TRADE, AND POSSIBLY TO SIGN AN ACCORD ON_,COO?ERATION IN SPACE,
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P THB USSR. BEIJINGTTED TO DETENTE--WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS FRIENDSHIP WITH StfON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. NEWECTS INTERNAL TROUBLES MAKE CHINA LESSHREAT AND BELIEVES
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4. PALESTINIANS: HARDLINE FACTIONS ON DEFENSIVE
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PALESTINIAN GROUPS ARE EXPRESSING GROWING FRUSTRATION OVER EFFORTS BY ARAFAT AND HIS FATAH PACTION TO DOMINATE
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THE POPULAR AND DEMOCRATIC FRONTS POR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE AND THE FUNDAMENTALIST GROUP HAMAS RECENTLY ISSUED LEAFLETS HARSHLY DENOUNCING THE PEACE PROCESS AND CALLING FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST PALESTINIAN PARTICIPATION, BUT THEY HAVE NOT ADVOCATEDOINT DFLP-PFLP STRIKE ON WEDNESDAY WAS LARGELY IGNORED IN THE WEST RANK; HAMAS HAS CALLEDENERAL STRIKE ON MONDAY, BUT THIS COINCIDESORK STOPPAGE ANNOUNCED BY THE FATAH-DOMINATED INTIFADAHLEADKRSHIP TO MARK THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UPRISING.
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M^^BMVALTHOUGH ALL THREE GROUPS AFB FRUSTRATED WITH FATAH'S DOMINATION OF THE PEACE AGENDA AND ITS GROWING INFLUENCE IN THE UPRISING, THE FAILURE OF THE DFLP-PFLP STRIKE PROBABLY WILL DETER THESE TWO PROM LAUNCHING MAJOR INITIATIVES IN THE NEAR TERM. THE -TIMING OF THE STRIKE BY HAMAS ALSO INDICATES ITS RELUCTANCE WILLS WITH FATAH WHILE ARAFAT'S PACTION HAS THE INITIATIVE.
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5. IRAQ: SADDAM'S RELATIVES ATTACKED
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