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Before talking with Assad, Jackson met with Syrian religious figures and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Though the Muslim and Christian leaders opposed Goodman's release, their American visitor made an impassioned plea for mercy. He then persuaded Mahmoud Labadi, a P.L.O. spokesman, to present Jackson's case for freeing Goodman to P.L.O. faction leaders in Damascus. It was they who subsequently urged the Syrians to give up the flyer...
...P.L.O. press office again, seeing it for perhaps the last time. Residents of the apartments above it are hauling box springs and couches through the lobby. Mahmoud Labadi, chief press spokesman and a thoughtful, mysterious man, has not yet arrived. His office looks as if it had been deserted months ago, all the leaflets and propaganda material lying in dust on the shelves. Down the street, bombed so frequently, stores remain enclosed behind sheets of corrugated metal. Sandbags are piled on oil drums. An officer finally arrives to announce that there will be a press
...turns to Labadi. "What should I tell...
...intelligent. But no girls are very intelligent. Jomaneh is more intelligent than most." Labadi smiles, but does not look...
...think that war will last forever. I will work for that day." One of Labadi's assistants enters the room to curtail the interview. The funeral procession is about to begin...