Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian spokesman, who declined to be identified, blamed Justice Minister Nabih Berri's Amal fighters for the shooting...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Gunmen killed an Iranian envoy and foiled a mercy mission yesterday when they fired on two U.N. trucks carrying food to besieged and hungry Palestinian refugees, police reported...
...small Hamburg literary review reveals that several thousand copies of Bok's books were shipped to Iran in February. The books were published by a small press outside Paris that specializes in Palestinian revolutionary tracts and then shipped to Iran via international book merchants associated with the Harvard Club of Hamburg. Harvard News Office Director Peter Costa denies supressing information in the Gazette's feature on Bok's books, adding: "If we had found out about all this stuff we certainly would have asked John Shattuck whether or not we should publish...
...Muammar Gaddafi's Libya in April, the masked face of terrorism was mostly absent from the world's airports and alleyways. Five months later, though, the threat was back with a bloody vengeance. Bombs erupted in downtown Paris, men with machine guns stormed a synagogue in Istanbul, four Palestinian hijackers held a Pan American plane hostage for 18 hours in Karachi, and 17 more foreigners were kidnaped in Lebanon. Many leaders looked to another kind of pressure -- that of economic sanctions -- to push the white-dominated government in South Africa toward reform. But neither trade embargoes nor the pullout...
That effort began last February shortly after the split between Hussein and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who had failed in their efforts to pursue a joint peace strategy. The collapse of that coalition has deepened the existing political divisions among the 1.3 million Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Declaring that his aim is to "revive the Palestinian economy," the King announced several weeks ago a contribution of $34 million toward a $l billion, five-year development plan for the West Bank. Among the goals are a rebuilding of factories, schools and other basic services...