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Agca first told one story, then another. After his arrest, he said that he had been trained by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), the hard-line Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization led by George Habash. In Lebanon, a spokesman for Habash told TIME: "We know nothing about this man. We have never heard of him before. He has no connection with us." Indeed...
...Italian lire and another $50 in Swiss francs, and his travels had not been cheap. Who was supporting him-or might he have supported himself, as other terrorists have, with robberies? If his assassination attempt was ideological, what had Turkey's rightists, or for that matter Habash's P.F.L.P., to gain from the death of a Pope...
...only favorable turn in an otherwise gloomy week was an indication that the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, led by the fiery but ailing George Habash, had taken a step toward a more moderate strategy. The P.F.L.P., after a seven-year absence, rejoined the governing executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization at its meeting in Damascus. TIME also learned that Habash, who had previously insisted that all of Israel must revert to a Palestinian state, would now accept "a Palestine" on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-at least "as a first step...
...National Council meeting reached agreement on the most important issues on its agenda early on. The relatively moderate Yasser Arafat remains the dominant figure within the P.L.O., although the role of George Habash and his radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will be somewhat expanded. Delegates took the considerable step of agreeing to adopt a joint political program. They rejected the Camp David plan for creating an autonomous "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza, and they insisted that the P.L.O. and not King Hussein should represent the Palestinians. Hussein accepted both these points, bringing himself into closer...
...network that some nonreligious Iranian dissidents have exploited the mullahs' movement for their own purposes. Some time ago, dissidents who could not otherwise have hoped to be effective signed up with Khomeini in Iraq under religious pretexts. A few then went to Lebanon for training by George Habash's radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Returning to Iran, they posed as clergymen, took code names, formed cells and provoked incidents of terrorism...