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...past seven months, a major goal of the Palestinian guerrilla movement has been the release of Abu Daud, an Al-Fatah official, from a Jordanian prison. Last February he was arrested on charges of plotting against King Hussein's regime. A month later, a band of terrorists killed three Western diplomats in Khartoum in a gruesome attempt to force Daud's release. Early this month, another group of guerrillas threatened to throw hostages out of a plane over Saudi Arabia if Daud was not set free. Both times Hussein stood firm. But last week, with nobody holding...
...some of the terrorism that has hurt the Arab cause in world opinion. Syria's stiffening attitude was aimed at the less tractable fedayeen, and could be designed to build up the importance of the Syrian-dominated guerrilla group, As-Saiqa. If the pressure keeps up, Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, who also heads the P.L.O., the fedayeen's general front organization, may lose his already shaky grip on other guerrilla factions...
...French authorities rushed heavily armed special police to surround the two-story embassy in Paris' Passy district, the gunmen announced that they would release their hostages only if Jordan would free Abu Daud, a former high-ranking leader of Al-Fatah who is serving a life sentence in a Jordanian prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime. Jordan categorically refused.* The gunmen then temporarily shelved their insistence on Abu Daud's release and asked instead for a plane and crew to fly them to an Arab capital - preferably Algiers, where the Summit Conference...
...down an Arab-owned jet last week, the principle behind the act already has been legally established -at least to Israel's satisfaction. No one knows that better than Faik Bulut, a 23-year-old Turk. Last February Bulut was captured during an Israeli raid on an Al-Fatah camp in northern Lebanon, 100 miles from the Israeli border. He was brought to Israel where he was indicted as a civilian for endangering the security of the nation. Last week Bulut was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment...
...defense of Bulut last week, Israeli Lawyer Leah Tseml argued that his seizure violates international standards governing extradition. In the Eichmann case, she said, Israel was simply enforcing the earlier Nurnberg-tribunal conviction of Eichmann for crimes against humanity. "There is no such agreement about Al-Fatah," she told the three-man military court, and therefore Israel has no right to force its own laws upon foreigners outside Israel. Indeed, the young Turk had not been accused of committing an overt act against Israel-only with being a member of Al-Fatah, which is a crime in Israel. He denied...