Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yitzhak Shamir rounded up the usual expressions of ambiguity last week to deny reports that he had been talking to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Asserting for the umpteenth time that he never had and never would, Shamir did admit that he has been holding "get-acquainted" talks with a Palestinian from the West Bank identified with the P.L.O. But, he insisted, "there's absolutely no negotiation with the P.L.O., direct or indirect...
...serve their own political ends. Some, including members of Israel's Labor Party, considered Arafat's terms relatively moderate because he reportedly dropped a demand for the total - withdrawal of Israeli troops before elections take place. Others read the terms, such as the long-standing demand for an independent Palestinian state, as confirmation of Arafat's insufficient flexibility. Arafat, true to his own ambiguous style, conveniently chose to highlight his more rigid points to the Arab world...
...alluding to the intifada, the Palestinian uprising and the near civilwar between Arab and Jew, between Jew and Jew. An Israeli venture into Lebanon might have taken the spotlight off the impending negotiations for Palestinian elections...
When the original threat to kill Cicippio was made Monday, his captors demanded the release of a Shiite Moslem cleric Israeli commandos kidnapped July 28. The new terms include release of unspecified "Palestinian and Lebanese" guerrillas...
Since most West Bank schools were first closed in February 1988, many Palestinian youngsters have hardly seen the inside of a normal classroom. A generation of six- and seven-year-olds have been growing up illiterate. Some have studied sporadically at "underground" schools set up by Palestinian activists in isolated buildings and mosques. But the risks have been high. "If the Israeli army finds the place, the teacher will be arrested, the children will start to run away -- and the army shoots," says Karemah, a Palestinian mother who refused to send her children to an illegal class near Bethlehem...