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...against the Palestinians but the P.L.O., and that a "crucial struggle" was under way over "the very possibility of coexistence between Jews and Palestinian Arabs." Until now, Israel has maintained that the 1976 West Bank elections, in which several pro-P.L.O. mayoral candidates, including Shaka'a and Khalaf, scored victories, were "free elections in the fullest sense." Last week, however, Milson hastily rewrote the official history, declaring that the 1976 elections had been undemocratic and influenced by P.L.O. intimidation...
...chilling news. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat may or may not be directly involved; for that matter, it has never been established to what degree he was connected to the Black September organization in the past. Experts on terrorism believe that the leader of the revived group is Salah Khalaf, better known as Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s "Interior Minister" and, as it happens, one of Arafat's top aides. In September 1970, Abu Iyad first launched the Black September terrorist group as a result of bitter fighting that year between Palestinian fedayeen and Jordan's King Hussein...
...controversy broke over a report published in the Washington Star. The newspaper charged that within days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...
Early one morning last week in the israeli-occupied territory of the west Bank, Karim Khalaf, mayor of the resort town of Ramallah, left his rambling stone house to drive 1½ miles to his city hall office. As Khalaf, 43, turned the ignition switch of his green 1980 Cadillac, a bomb exploded beneath his feet. A gardener working in the rear courtyard ran to the car and pulled the screaming mayor from...
...about the same time, a municipal driver in the city of El-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, arrived at the home of Mayor Ibrahim Tawil, 41. He told Tawil of the explosion of Khalaf's car and warned the mayor not to use his own car. Later, when an Israeli army demolition expert approached the locked garage where Tawil's Peugeot was kept, a bomb planted in front of the door exploded, blinding the soldier...