Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September 1970. Abu Daoud was shot in the leg in one of the early battles of that Black September and spent the rest of the war recuperating in Damascus. After his recovery, he was sent on missions to Europe, North Korea and China to seek support for the Palestinian cause...
Between his release from Hussein's prison in 1973 and his arrest this month in Paris, Abu Daoud's doings have been murkier than ever. He apparently has concentrated on diplomatic chores for the P.L.O., part of the time in Baghdad. But Daoud also commanded a Palestinian unit that fought with Moslem leftists in Beirut during the Lebanon civil war. Partly because he dropped out of terrorist work and partly because they think he is still working for the Jordanians, Israeli intelligence insists that he is no longer a prime target. "We don't kill spies...
...Hafez Assad. At the moment Assad and other Arab leaders are opting for peace. The Syrian leader and Egypt's Anwar Sadat recently smoothed over a lengthy feud involving Syrian intervention in Lebanon; last week Jordan's King Hussein and Sadat met to discuss peace strategies and Palestinian statehood...
...savage massacres" and remove a roadblock in the way of a Geneva conference, is currently the key figure in the peacemaking. In a 90-minute interview in Damascus with TIME's Wilton Wynn last week, he outlined his views on terms and timing of a settlement, on Palestinian participation, and on the need for the U.S. to be still more evenhanded in its Middle East dealings. Excerpts from the interview...
...favor a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state linked to Jordan...