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...Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) source reported during the weekend that the PLO was negotiating with Iranian officials and student representatives. Salah Khalaf, a PLO leader, said yesterday the negotiators had given up and left Tehran...
...Khalaf said the Palestinians had told Iranian authorities they "believe America cannot be fought through occupation of its embassy, but rather through serious and radical confrontation...
...said it never had direct U.S. sanction for its efforts. Khalaf also denied that the PLO was using the Tehran crisis as a way of winning U.S. recognition...
...prominent West Bank mayors visiting Washington for a two-day conference on Palestinian rights scarcely encouraged that hope. Fahd Qawasmi of Hebron and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah told their American audience that Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza overwhelmingly support the P.L.O. "as our representative" and would refuse to deal with Israel until they regained sovereignty over their ancestral lands...
These factional tensions require West Bank political leaders?whatever their private feelings?to insist publicly that only the Palestine Liberation Organization can negotiate with Israel on their behalf. Says Ramallah's Mayor Karim Khalaf, 41: "The P.L.O. is Palestine and Palestine is the P.L.O. Without the P.L.O. there will be no negotiations at all." Israel, meanwhile, still flatly rejects any idea of P.L.O. participation in negotiations. Both Washington and Jerusalem want negotiations on the future of the West Bank and Gaza to include Jordan's King Hussein?a prospect the West Bankers view with mixed feelings. Many moderates believe that...