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...Lebanon known as the Chouf. The area is home to two of Lebanon's best-known political leaders, Maronite Christian Camille Chamoun and Druze Kamal Jumblatt. Last week, in retaliation for a rightist Christian attack on a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, leftist and Druze militiamen, led by fedayeen officers, laid siege to Damur, an important road junction and rightist stronghold. For five days it was shelled by mortars and rockets. TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager visited the town after the shelling and house-to-house fighting ended. His report...
Relations with Jordan's King Hussein remain icy. Expelled from that country after the "Black September" of 1970, the P.L.O. has insisted that ties with Amman can improve only if the fedayeen once again are allowed to use Jordanian territory as bases from which to strike at Israel. Hussein, who vividly remembers that the guerrillas tried to overthrow his regime, has answered with a flat...
Blockaded Camps. Arafat's most serious problem in the Arab world these days is an unexpected one: Lebanon. For years the fedayeen have enjoyed extraordinary freedom of action there, controlling the refugee camps and operating bases for strikes into Israel. Ending the Palestinians' status as a nation within a nation in Lebanon is a major goal of the right-wing Christian Phalange and its allies-and a constant issue in the nine-month-old civil war. Arafat is anxious to preserve the status quo, and helped arrange several of Lebanon's short-lived ceasefires. Until recently...
P.L.O. strength has been further sapped by disunity within its own ranks. Formed in 1964 as an umbrella organization of six fedayeen groups, the P.L.O. has always been loose-knit and ideologically divided. In the past year internal squabbles have intensified. On the one side are the relative moderates: Arafat's Fatah (6,700 members of whom some 2,000 are active fighters) and Syrian-backed Saiqa (about 2,000 members, including 1,000 fighters). Opposing them are such "rejection front" groups as George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (estimated membership...
...FEDAYEEN RAIDS ON ISRAEL: We do not plan fedayeen actions. They have full freedom in our country. Those who want to discuss the fedayeen should go to the P.L.O. I don't believe any reasonable man can imagine that we would charge our army with protecting Israel against displaced Palestinians...