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...first group drove a scant mile to Rue Khaled Ben al Walid. Two apartment buildings halfway along the short street housed the Palestinian leaders marked for assassination: Al-Fatah Deputy Leader Abu Yusuf, Intelligence Expert Kamal Adwan and Palestinian Spokesman Kamal Nasser. All three had attended a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the evening...
...Kamal Adwan, 38, was the youngest of the three P.L.O. officials assassinated by the Israelis. A former petroleum engineer who had worked with Arafat on the Persian Gulf, he was also influential in Fatah affairs, though he shunned publicity. He established one of the original Palestinian resistance cells and, at his death, was responsible for P.L.O. intelligence in Israeli-occupied territories. To the Israelis, this meant that he was in charge of terrorist acts within these areas...
...Kamal Nasser, 48, the third P.L.O. victim, was mourned by Palestinians last week as the "revolutionary butterfly." He was a colorful and esteemed poet and the official spokesman for the entire P.L.O. A Christian, he did not seem tied to any one group within the organization, though the Israelis regarded him as a representative of Fatah and thus, in their view, of Black September. Nasser always refused to carry a gun, despite warnings that his life might be in danger. A graduate in political science from the American University of Beirut and a former member of the Jordanian Parliament...
When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, no one was more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community...
...community. "It would be better to die than for the village to see this disgrace!" said an elder. Israeli reaction, by contrast, was markedly mild. Both Shmuel Toledano, adviser to Prime Minister Golda Meir on Arab affairs, and Opposition Leader Menahem Begin last week cautioned Israelis not to judge Kamal Kanj before he is tried...