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Getting rid of him, however, may not be so easy. Though his alliance with Arafat has never been more than a marriage of convenience on both sides, Arafat needs to demonstrate a hold on P.L.O. factions outside Arafat's own group, Fatah; Abbas is very nearly the only splinter leader available for that purpose. He is also a symbol of a particular type of Palestinian: the generation that grew up in refugee camps, became guerrillas in early manhood, and never accepted any goal but the establishment of a full-fledged Palestinian state, or any method of achieving it except armed...
Among other things, the Palestine Liberation Front was responsible for the 1979 attack on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, where an Israeli man and his five-year-old daughter were murdered. Abbas' branch of the P.L.F. has cultivated increasingly close military links with Arafat's Fatah organization. In 1982, Abbas moved to Tunis, where he now commands about 1,500 fighters. Abbas is a member of the executive committee of the Palestine National Council, a post he could not hold without Arafat's backing...
...murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried out by Force 17, a commando unit from the Fatah branch of the P.L.O., a claim the organization denied...
...Israelis said they sank the vessel on the high seas about 100 miles west of Tel Aviv. Eight guerrillas were captured, one body was washed ashore, and 19 others aboard were presumed to have drowned. In Jordan, Khalil Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, the deputy commander of Fatah, the largest P.L.O. guerrilla group, claimed that the commandos were killed in onshore battles with Israeli forces. He said the ship was heading out to sea when it was sunk...
...Qatar took similar routes to Boston, their teams are very different. Iraq, a respected soccer power for several years, finished just out of the money four years ago, placing fifth in the 1980 Olympics. Regarded for its experience and strong defense, the team is led by miserly goalie Abdul Fatah Jassim, who started in the Olympics four years ago and gave up only four goals in the qualifying tournament last year...