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Kathy Power asked a friend at Brandies to go on "commando raids" with her in late August, the CRIMSON has learned...
...possible outcomes of Hussein's move: a clear-cut routing of the guerrillas; a smashing fedayeen victory and Hussein's fall; a prolonged stalemate. They outlined U.S. options to deal with each eventuality. Far more ominous, however, was another possibility: that the Iraqis and Syrians, long sympathetic to the commandos, might intervene. That could tempt Israeli troops, armor and airpower to plunge in too. Then Egypt might respond?and Soviet pilots and technicians have become an integral part of Gamal Abdel Nasser's military forces. The first aim of U.S. strategy had to be to confine the fighting...
...Cover: Photo montage. From the top: jetliners at desert airstrip (by Nik Wheeler); commando press conference (Wheeler); burning 747 at Cairo (Rachad el Koussy for NBC News...
...P.F.L.P. is one of the most militant of some dozen Palestinian commando outfits known collectively as the fedayeen (men of sacrifice). It is Marxistoriented, with touches of Mao. Last week the P.F.L.P.'s leader, Dr. George Habash, was traveling through North Korea on his way home from Peking, where he had sought more Asian Communist weapons and funds. Habash & Co. have been violently opposed to the Middle East cease-fire plan accepted in August by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein. Vowed Habash: "If a settlement is made with Israel, we will turn the Middle East...
Another problem was that no one, in Habash's absence, emerged as a clear spokesman for the P.F.L.P. That made almost any remark by an individual commando appear to be a Front demand. One hijacker aboard the Pan American 747, for instance, told passengers that the Front would demand freedom for Sirhan B. Sirhan, convicted assassin of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The assertion was quickly denied by other Popular Front members...