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...forget the inflexibility shown by the P.L.O. leaders, especially Yasser Arafat. They have refused any kind of compromise and have been the rudest of guests whenever an Arab country has extended hospitality to them. They have also allied themselves with villains like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. Arafat is getting what he deserves...
...rift within Fatah. It is very, very serious. As I told my fighters today, it is a case of Arab interference. Our bases in the Bekaa Valley are surrounded. The Libyan role is clear. [Libyan Leader] Muammar [Gaddafi] and his mass media are declaring that they are taking part in the attacks against our forces. The Syrians are saying they are not involved, but their moves make their role clear also. Their tanks and troops are blockading our bases...
...there were few signs as to how it could be broken. Syria's decision to end its four-day-long maneuvers in Lebanon defused some of the military tension, but a war of bellicose rhetoric continued. Arriving in Libya for a meeting with his hard-line colleague Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian President Hafez Assad declared that the U.S.-sponsored agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon was "in a state of collapse and death." Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned that if the Syrians attacked Israel, "we shall all have to defend our lives, our existence...
...Chairman Yasser Arafat led motorcades into eastern and northern Lebanon last week for a series of public pep rallies and private meetings with his military commanders. At every whistle-stop along the way he told his Palestinian followers that dissension within P.L.O. ranks was being fomented by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi and "some other Arab regimes." If Gaddafi did not stop his interference, Arafat warned, he would "cut out his tongue." As a result of such troublemaking, said Arafat, the Palestinians must fight harder than ever to maintain their solidarity and must prepare for another war with Israel that could...
DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...