Word: fatah
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...Ahmed has been located. He is posted somewhere on the front and is a full-fledged soldier now. His older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past a fat man who has been forced to drop his pants for a search at a checkpoint in the middle of the street. He stands there helpless before a group...
Still unresolved was the question of where the P.L.O. leadership would go if it did leave Beirut. Several Arab states, including Egypt, Syria, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia, have expressed some willingness to admit the Fatah leaders, but only Egypt has made an offer. The U.S. believed that any of these states would be sure that the P.L.O. did not regain its former military power...
...were made on such nonmilitary areas as Family Beach, a popular stretch of sand and surf just south of the beleaguered capital. Israel's planes hammered hard at Beirut's Sports City, a former stadium that is now a storage depot for food and supplies for Al Fatah, a commando group of the P.L.O. Two floors of the structure collapsed under fire, burying guerrillas and their families in a broken mass of reinforced concrete...
...Arafat has told his restless officers that if they let the Israelis attack and are able to hold out for ten days, the P.L.O. would get so much international support that it would have embassies in London and Paris within a month. Although some of the officers in his Fatah organization believe the P.L.O. should act immediately to support the continuing unrest in the West Bank and Gaza, Arafat seemed determined to hold out against those who were pressing for action...
...main target of the Israeli planes had been the Palestine Liberation Organization's several commando offices in West Beirut. The command centers of two important components of the P.L.O., Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, escaped virtually unscathed, although the headquarters of two smaller groups, the P.F.L.P.-General Command and the Syrian-dominated Saiqa, were partly destroyed. The most serious damage took place in densely crowded areas like the Fakhani district behind the Fatah center, where half a dozen large office and apartment buildings collapsed. Israeli officials said the object of the attack...