Word: nayef
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Britain and France took somewhat different approaches to the terrorism that afflicted their cities. After investigating two earlier killings-the murder of former Iraqi Premier Abdel Razak Nayef last month and the shooting of P.L.O. Representative Said Hammami in January-British authorities decided that Iraqi agents were deeply involved, and that Baghdad was using its embassy and airline to import weapons and killers. The Foreign Office as a result ordered home seven Iraqi diplomats and four other nationals. In retaliation, eight British diplomats and two other nationals were banished from Baghdad...
...collaborating with the Syrians) and George Habash, two of the most prominent leaders of the "rejection front" have lost much of their influence among the Palestinians. Presently, the only group that poses a threat to Arafat is the Popular Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) headed by Nayef Hawatmeh. PDFLP seems to be acquiring more importance, especially among the Palestinians in certain of the Lebanese camps. But the extent of the threat the PDFLP poses for the PLO remains to be seen, since the two groups basically share the same goals. Both have a relatively accommodating attitude toward...
...Nayef Hawatmeh's Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (500 members), which has usually sided with Arafat's moderates, has recently been flirting with the rejectionists. Says a senior official in Amman, Jordan: "The P.L.O. is incapable of making a decision and is unable to effectively use the support...
...Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is led by Jordanian Christian Nayef Hawatmeh, 40. He and his 500 Marxist followers split from Habash's organization in 1969, complaining that the P.F.L.P. was not vigorous enough in combatting right-wing Arab governments like Jordan's. Their most notable recent operation was the Ma'alot raid in Israel last May, in which 21 schoolchildren were killed. The attack prompted a massive Israeli retaliation by air on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon...
...problem for the National Council is that the P.L.O. is dangerously split. Arafat and some other leaders, notably Saiqa's Zuhair Mohsen Nayef Hawatmeh, whose Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was re sponsible for the Ma'alot massacre (TIME, May 27), prefer to take what they can get and establish an autonomous mini-Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza strip and the Hemmeh region...