Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East political landscape seemed filled last week with what the diplomats call signals, and almost all of them involved the Palestine Liberation Organization. Even as the Administration was busy protesting that President Carter had been misinterpreted in his analogy comparing the Palestinian cause with the U.S. civil rights movement, Washington was actively reviewing U.S. posture toward Yasser Arafat's P.L.O...
Nonetheless, within 24 hours Israel defiantly struck north into Lebanon again, this time with a ground assault that blew up a house suspected of harboring Palestinian terrorists in the frontier village of Majdal Silm...
...French Riviera resort of Cannes last week, a stocky, balding Palestinian holidaymaker strolled leisurely back to his luxurious rented apartment on La Croisette after a lucky evening at the roulette tables. As the elevator doors let him out on the fourth floor, two sportily dressed young men-one described as a tall, blond European, the other as a slighter, darker man who could have been North African-pounced from the corridor. After a scuffle and a shot, the Palestinian was left dying with a .32-cal. bullet in his head...
Western intelligence circles had some other suspicions about whodunit. One theory involved a possible Egyptian vendetta for the recent Palestinian guerrilla seizure of the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, which Mohsen is said to have directed. Another was that he was the victim of a plot within the P.L.O., where Mohsen had numerous enemies because of his Syrian connection...
...policy of setting up new Jewish settlements in densely populated Arab areas of the occupied West Bank. "A policy which requires the expropriation of Arab land unrelated to Israel's security needs," the letter read, "and which presumes to occupy permanently a region populated by 750,-000 Palestinian Arabs, we find morally unacceptable, and perilous for the democratic character of the Jewish state." Among those who signed were Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome B. Wiesner, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...