Word: guerrillas
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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...
Pretext Removed. Even the quid pro quo explanation did not satisfy the fedayeen. Understandably. At the same time that their major Arab enemy was tendering an olive branch, one of their most fervent supporters was getting tough. Syria last week curtailed many fedayeen activities within its borders, including some guerrilla training-camp operations; it also closed down a propaganda radio station and confiscated an issue of an official newspaper published by the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...guerrilla issue was clearly the touchiest item on the agenda in Cairo. Hussein apparently expressed a willingness to let small units of the Palestine Liberation Army be based in Jordan under Jordanian command. But he balked at proposals that massive bands of guerrillas be allowed back in the lines under independent fedayeen command. The King's determined stand stalled the conference. When it ended after three days, Egypt announced that it was resuming diplomatic relations with Jordan, and Syria is expected to follow suit soon. But the communiqué made no reference to the fedayeen issue...
Economics was the dominant but by no means the only concern of the delegates, who took turns mouthing the familiar and expectable denunciations of imperialism, Zionism and racism. There was no comparable repudiation of guerrilla violence, even though Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, condemned the actions of the terrorists who had seized the Saudi embassy in Paris (see following story) as "criminal" and denied that his organization had any responsibility for them. In fact, the incident created considerable embarrassment for the Arabs. At one point there were fears that a Syrian plane with the terrorists...
...South and to rebuild the bomb-shattered economy in the North. Nonetheless, it gives every indication that it is prepared to start fighting again if it fails to win the South politically. In contrast to eight years ago, when the Viet Cong were poorly armed and waging primarily a guerrilla war, the Communists are now armed with heavy weapons. Intelligence sources estimate they have 400 tanks within or near the borders of the South, as well as many artillery pieces, including the 17-mile-range 130-mm. cannon...