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...founder and head of the ADC, agrees. The fire, he said last week, "must surely be linked" to two recent bombings aimed at his group. In August two Boston police officers were badly injured while trying to defuse a bomb found outside the ADC's office. After the Achille Lauro hijacking in October, the ADC's West Coast director Alex Odeh, 41, was fatally wounded after he appeared on Cable News Network saying it was time for Americans to "understand the Palestinian side of the story." When he opened the door to the organization's office in Santa Ana, Calif...
...Jordanian capital of Amman, two days of closed-door discussions between supposed peace partners yielded far more ambiguous conclusions. At their first meeting since the Achille Lauro hijacking, King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, hammered out at least a temporary continuance of their Feb. 11 agreement to reach a negotiated settlement with Israel. The two thereby blunted Israeli hopes that the P.L.O. might be squeezed out of the peace negotiations...
...P.L.O. and Arafat into outer darkness at the Amman meeting were soon doomed to disappointment. Even so, the P.L.O. leader was uneasy as he arrived from Baghdad on Monday for his session at Hussein's Al Nadwa Palace. He had reason for anxiety. Hussein was infuriated by the Achille Lauro hijacking. The King was even more irked by the collapse of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives, one of whom scuttled the session by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist...
Evidently fearing the kind of daring U.S. air interception that the Achille Lauro hijackers encountered, Arafat made the 500-mile journey from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, to Amman by automobile. Seven top P.L.O. leaders accompanied him to the palace for the 2 1/2-hour meeting with Hussein. The ! next day Arafat held a three-hour session with Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al Rifa'i. Later, however, the P.L.O. leader claimed that Hussein was not upset in their meeting. Said he: "Jordanian-Palestinian relations are too strong to be affected by an event here or an event there...
...Hussein-Arafat talks were two specific assurances: 1) that Arafat would harmonize any further diplomatic moves, like the failed London meeting, with Jordan and with other P.L.O. officials through a joint coordinating committee; and 2) that Arafat would do everything possible to prevent a repeat of the Achille Lauro hijacking. In a move that promised to be more show than substance, the P.L.O. also agreed to set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the cruise-liner tragedy, including the role of the notorious Abul Abbas, accused by Israel of masterminding that operation...