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...about the same time. P.F.L.P. leaders came under strong pressure to turn over bargaining responsibility to the Palestine Liberation Organization, an umbrella association of fedayeen groups that is dominated by Guerrilla Chief Yasser Arafat, the comparatively responsible leader of Al-Fatah. The other Palestinian organizations were eager to gain control over Popular Front actions because of stinging criticism that had been heaped on the hijackers by most Arab governments, including the commandos' usual allies Iraq and Syria. Popular Front officials reluctantly agreed to the evacuation of all hostages from the airstrip and to the release of some women and children...
Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser also faces some opposition, but he has managed to open negotiations with the Israelis without forfeiting his prestige with the Palestinian commando organizations. At his seaside retreat in Alexandria, Nasser last week received Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, whose visit was interpreted as a gesture of continued support. The general speculation in Cairo is that Arafat and other moderate fedayeen leaders will avoid an open break with Nasser until the Egyptian President can determine whether progress can be made in the New York talks...
...explain each one's position to the other. One item of early business is certain to be an exchange of prisoners. Israel is eager to secure the return of its 16 Nationals held as prisoners of war (twelve by Egypt, three by Syria and one by Al-Fatah in Jordan). Israel is holding 119 Arabs, including two prominent Algerians taken last week from an international jetliner during a stopover at Tel Aviv's airport...
Nasser by name for the first time, was followed by a larger demonstration in Amman: 25,000 people joined a protest march under the aegis of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah guerrilla group. Arafat spoke to his followers at the close of the march and promised them that "the revolution will take orders from no one." He did not, however, make any mention of Nasser. In Baghdad, meanwhile, Iraqi marchers carried posters reading "DOWN WITH ABDEL NASSER...
...there is yet no evidence that Palestinians, now more united than ever by the fedayeen's brand of Middle East machismo, will change their adamant refusal to bargain on their dream of total repatriation. Says Yasser Arafat, leader of the largest commando group, Al-Fatah: "A return to 1967 really only takes Palestinians back to being refugees on the West Bank of the Jordan or in Gaza under Arab rule. It doesn't take them all home under self-rule, and that is what we are struggling...