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...immobilized. Nonetheless, the Syrian President and the P.L.O. leader have already moved to patch up relations. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Damascus that the two men met in the Syrian capital last week and agreed that hard-line "rejectionist" elements in the Palestinian movement -notably George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -must be eliminated to ensure peace...
...later, Israelis were separated from the others when one of the terrorists barked in English, "Israelis to the right." Via Radio Uganda, the skyjackers proclaimed that they were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Marxist, zealously anti-Israel fedayeen group led by Dr. George Habash. But the Popular Front's Beirut headquarters disowned them, and the 21-nation Arab League, at its Cairo meeting, condemned them...
...diplomatic moves and countermoves produced some strange alliances ?some new, some old. For the past two years Arafat has been at ideological odds with Dr. George Habash, the militantly Marxist head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. But both Habash and Arafat are supporters of Jumblatt, and both felt threatened by Syria's strategy...
...Syria's gains in Lebanon ever lead Damascus to agree to negotiations with Jerusalem, one consequence is assured: an immediate, enraged denunciation of the Syrians by Dr. George Habash, the head of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The most powerful Palestinian leader of the rejection front, Habash repudiates any action-including participating in a conference with the Israelis-that might imply recognition of Israel's right to exist as a state. This stance has led to a break between Habash and the more moderate Yasser Arafat, thus making the P.F.L.P. chief a rallying point...
...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: 3,500), the P.F.L.P.-General Command, led by former Syrian Army Captain Ahmed Jebreel (150 hard-core guerrillas) and the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front (about 100 members...