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Interviews with Yasser Arafat sometimes take place at odd hours and in strange places. At 11:30 p.m on a Wednesday, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish were driven through a maze of back streets in Beirut to a nondescript building that currently serves as headquarters for the armed of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Young men armed with AK-47s guarded his office; a portrait of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini hung on one wall. Arafat was finishing a letter to the Ayatullah when his guests arrived. Some of the points...
With a fortune estimated at $100 million, Farouk Nasser, 50, can afford to live anywhere he wants in the world; in fact he has homes in London and San Francisco as well as a sumptuous permanent hotel suite in Beirut. One of the most successful of Palestinian businessmen, he heads the Modern Electronics Establishment, with headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Nasser, whose family founded Bir Zeit University, still dreams of returning to his birthplace. "I'll tell you why I want to go back to Palestine," he says. "I belong to this land. I was born there. I know...
...formally annex the West Bank," says Abu Zuluf, "because he doesn't want all those Palestinians voting for the Knesset. He just wants the land and not the people." The tall (6 ft. 6 in.), pipe-smoking editor, a onetime basketball star at the American University of Beirut, is especially anxious for a settlement because two of his three sons, who are studying at universities in England, "are hinting that they don't want to come back here without peace." Adds Abu Zuluf sadly: "I don't blame them...
...five years in an Egyptian desert prison that he describes as "outside the map of God, where it rains for five minutes once in 50 years." He asks, sardonically: "Will the Arabs ever be honest enough to talk about their concentration camps?" Beseisso edits the literary magazine Lotus in Beirut; his frequent travels abroad include visits to the Soviet Union and the U.S. As to the kind of Palestine he wants, Beseisso says: "We don't look for colorsa red Palestine, a green Palestine, a black Pales tine. Let the rainbow wait. First, let us go home...
...Fatah at the age of 16. The struggle to preserve a Palestinian identity was so strong at that time, she says, that "a Palestinian woman had to do a man's work." She is an expert marksman with the automatic weapon she still carries in her car in Beirut and can handle an anti-tank gun if need be. She is married to Abu Jihad, the P.L.O.'s military commander; as a sign of their commitment to Palestine they named the first of their four children, a son, Jihad (Arabic for "holy war"). "We are looking for peace...