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A possible explanation for Washington's contradictory comments last week lay in the fact that the diplomatic process was going nowhere. The Israeli-Lebanese talks were stalled, and not merely because Lebanon was being assaulted by the most severe blizzard in memory. The Palestine National Council, the policymaking body...
Arafat has responded cautiously, noting that while the plan did not meet the P.L.O. objective of an independent state, it did contain "positive elements." He is well aware of the growing fear among Palestinian moderates both in and out of the P.L.O. that time is running out if the occupied...
The precaution proved to be unnecessary. In a series of heated discussions before the public meetings began, the P.L.O.'s 15-member executive committee hammered out its positions in private. The organization's leaders agreed first of all that a show of unity was absolutely essential for the...
U.S. officials argued that any such Soviet plan would be hopelessly one-sided because it would give Moscow a monopoly on modern missile systems in the European theater. Furthermore, it would provide no guarantee that the mobile SS-20s sent to the far eastern region of the U.S.S.R. would not...
Clemens Kapuuo was then probably in his early forties. Soft-spoken and highly cultured, he stood nearly seven feet tall. His bodyguards were taller; the encourage filled our living room. He told stories of his 13 children and drank only orange juice. When he visited us in the States for...