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...other concessions to reach a real peace in the Middle East. The danger was that the P.L.O., a loose coalition of eight groups that run the gamut from Arafat's own moderate Fatah organization to the hardline Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine led by George Habash, would emerge from Algiers even more divided than it already is. To guard against any real threat to his leadership, Arafat made sure that thousands of Fatah supporters turned out from all over the world...
...many delegates, however, the trauma of Beirut was enough to ensure their loyalty. Said a Palestinian delegate: "He was surrounded for 80 days in Beirut and as far as I am concerned, he won. We are all with him." Perhaps the most telling moment of the meeting came when Habash delivered a ringing denunciation of the "shameful and disgraceful Reagan plan." Said he: "We did not pay the price of blood in Beirut to record an American diplomatic victory." But then, turning to his old rival Arafat, Habash pointedly called for P.L.O. unity and declared: "Arafat is our symbol...
...seaside town north of the capital, and board a U.S. helicopter for Larnaca in Cyprus. Then he would catch a flight to Tel Aviv. As the negotiations edged toward a settlement, U.S. intelligence agents picked up reports that an extremist splinter group of the P.L.O., run by George Habash, intended to assassinate the envoy. The faction opposed a P.L.O. withdrawal from Beirut. Habib spent one night in the shelter of the residence of U.S. Ambassador Robert S. Dillon in Yarze, southeast of Beirut. Habib also had to break off talks with the Lebanese from time to time when P.L.O. rockets...
...dismiss the existence of a civilian population. Every time we tried to show it, they tried to hide it." Says Paul Miller, NBC Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv: "Their censorship was outrageous. They cut out anything that might look bad for them." After CBS footage of P.L.O. Leader George Habash was chopped, CBS Tel Aviv Bureau Chief Charles Wolfson protested to the city's chief censor. Recalls Wolfson: "He told me: 'You have two choices. You either understand, or, if you don't understand, your second choice is to obey...
...P.L.O. organizations. Said he: "We do not use brutality against P.L.O. prisoners or refugees.") An Israeli attack on the P.L.O. in West Beirut could arouse Arab anger even more, sowing new seeds of radicalism and terror among remnants of the Palestinian movement scattered throughout the Middle East. Said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Marxist branch of the P.L.O.: "If they got rid of all of us and not a gun was left here [in Beirut], the revolution will continue. There are secret organizations all over the world." Former Lebanese Prime Minister...