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Arafat, in trying to cool the situation in Jordan, must deal not only with Hussein but with a splintering guerrilla movement as well. His own Al-Fatah, with 40,000 men, is still the dominant fedayeen organization. Fatah's aim is the dissolution of a Zionist Israel and the establishment of a multiracial Palestinian state. Lately, however, Arafat has had to deal with guerrillas more militant and Marxist than he; they not only want to recover Palestine but also intend to reform Arab society. The most outspoken of these is George Habash, 44, a physician who heads the Popular...
...reprisal of the 13 Lebanese civilians "nothing less than a calculated act of vengeance" as much as the Israeli school-bus attack by the eight Popular Front Arabs? The important difference is that one is carried out by a few self-appointed, vengeful Arabs, condemned even by the Al-Fatah, and not at all representative of the Arabs; the other one is implemented by the army of the government of Israel carrying out a blatant national reprisal policy against the neighbors with whom it so cunningly purports to desire "peace...
Last week made it three defeats in a row. Yasser Arafat, who heads the Al-Fatah guerrillas and last week was named commander in chief of the twelve major guerrilla organizations, flew into Amman from Cairo to arrange a truce. In an all-night session at the palace, he and Hussein hammered out a ten-point pact, mostly favorable to the fedayeen...
Hussein still held his throne, but it seemed less secure than ever. And he was not the only one to suffer. The disturbances pointed up a serious ideological split between Habash's extreme leftist outfit and Arafat's bigger, more moderate Fatah. To make matters worse, the twelve biggest fedayeen groups range from Maoist to moderate in their political views; unless they can achieve something more than paper unity, their quarrels will surely bring more violence to the Middle East. Last week, for example, observers in Amman insisted that they had seen guerrilla groups shooting at one another...
...alliance created for defense find new life by seeking détente? That issue faced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as it met in Rome against a backdrop of leftist riots and rallies that proclaimed "Nixon, boia [Nixon, hangman]!" and "Al-Fatah vincerà [Al-Fatah will conquer]!" NATO was created in 1949 to defend Western Europe against Communist military aggression. But when the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO members met last week, they invited their Warsaw Pact opponents as well as nonaligned European countries to join with them in a search for ways to reduce tensions...