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Meeting in Moscow. An agreement reached last week between two major factions of the fedayeen movement provided further evidence of Arab determination. Leaders of Al-Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) met in Amman for three days of almost nonstop meetings. They were concerned about a Cabinet reshuffle in Jordan that put anti-commando men into key positions and embarrassed by an unseemly squabble over credit for a successful raid three weeks ago. Other commando chieftains also joined the talks, and the upshot was a pledge of increased coordination. Just how long the agreement will...
...most recent exploit. It is led by left-leaning Dr. George Habash, 44, a Palestinian Arab from Lydda who long ago turned from medicine to the violent practice of Palestine politics. Last week, in a rare interview, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs talked with Habash in PFLP headquarters in Amman and heard a typical fedayeen voice-fanatical, boastful, uncompromising. Some questions and answers...
...their headquarters and from whence they launch the majority of their raids. The East Bank of the Jordan River is virtually a no man's land, and many of the country's villages have been heavily damaged by retaliating Israeli jets. The fedayeen swagger openly through the streets of Amman, Kalashnikov assault rifles at the ready, in defiance of an agreement between their leaders and the King that they will submit to civil law. Eventually, Hussein must face the cruel choice of Israeli devastation of his kingdom if he does not curb the fedayeen, or civil war with the Palestinians...
...riots rapidly spread to Beirut and every sizable city in Lebanon, growing in numbers and fury with the support of student sympathizers and opposition political parties. Premier Rashid Karami vainly pleaded by telephone with Fatah Commander Yasser Arafat in Amman, asking him to appeal to the demonstrators to stop. Arafat refused, on the grounds that they were not under his orders. Meanwhile, the Cairo-based Voice of Al-Fatah was broadcasting instructions that urged "the Arab masses" to prevent Lebanese "counterrevolutionary forces" from "stabbing the revolution in the back...
...Jerusalem supermarket last month that killed two shoppers. The Israelis also bulldozed their homes, where massive amounts of explosives were found. The suspects included an Arab Anglican clergyman, who, according to the Israelis, acted as a courier for orders and relayed explosives provided by the Egyptian embassy in Amman...