April 4, 1987

Social/Economic/Political

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Gaza Strip's Union of Workers in Commerce and Public Service defy Israeli ban and hold union elections in Red Cross offices [FJ 4/12].

Other Countries: American Civil Liberties Union files lawsuit charging that McCarran-Walter Act, under which 7 Palestinians and 1 Kenyan were arrested 1/26, is unconstitutional and that Immigration and Naturalization Service plans "sweeping arrests and deportation" of Arabs living in U.S. [BS 4/4].