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Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...P.L.O. with a view to statehood has set up the Palestine National Council, a 293-person parliament whose members range from fedayeen and delegates from refugee groups to students and intellectuals. The council includes such disparate personalities as Abu Daoud, accused of masterminding the 1972 Munich massacre, Father Ibrahim Ayad, a Roman Catholic priest, and Edward Said, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian forebears who is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Between the National Council sessions, the P.L.O. gets strategy guidance from a 40-member Central Council, which is also notorious for rancorous disputes...
...Ogden. Discovered Ogden: "This week there finally is palpable excitement in the Administration that the Geneva conference could become a reality." To round out our reporting, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and TIME'S David Halevy assessed the mood in Israel, while TIME'S Dean Brelis and Abu Said Abu Rish interviewed Palestinian leaders in Beirut...
...question now is whether the cease-fire can be extended long enough to bring peace to an embattled area that has been turned into a no man's land by the on-again, off-again fighting. Correspondent Dean Brelis and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish toured southern Lebanon last week. Their report...
...next step in the Palestinian strategy, reported TIME'S Dean Brelis and Abu Said Abu Rish from Beirut, is a p.r. blitz focusing on Israel as the big obstacle to a Middle East settlement. "We're not blocking peace," says a P.L.O. spokesman. "Israel is." To press that point, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat plans to fly to New York next month (aboard an Algerian-lent 707 jet) to push for a new United Nations resolution-to be introduced by an as yet undesignated Arab delegation-that will call for the recognition of Israel in exchange for solid guarantees...