Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nickname has stuck, but the embarrassment has not. Tarazi now hopes to spend his life working for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), most likely as a publicist in this country...
NEVER do we read a headline like "PLO Pushes Israelis to Hatred," although the Palestinian Liberation Organization is responsible for more violence in Israel than the Israeli army. Never do we read a headline like "Ayatollah Khomeini Instills Muslim World with Hatred," even in a time of a highly publicized death threat. Death threats are something the state of Israel has lived with since its inception; the one political issue that has not divided the Arab nations until recently is the mandate to destroy Israel...
Considering that the Steinberg story took precedence over the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the RJR-Nabisco corporate buyout, then-Secretary of State George Schultz's refusal to grant PLO leader Yasir Arafat a visa and the electoral victory of Benazir Bhutto '73 in Pakistan, can we believe that Newsweek had anything in mind except appealing to our "most primitive fascinations...
...Elementary School in Stockton, Calif. He stepped out, carrying a Chinese-made semiautomatic AK-47 rifle loaded with 75 bullets. Carved into the AK-47's stock were disconnected words: "freedom," "victory," "Hezbollah." He wore a flak jacket under a camouflage shirt jacket that bore other words, one misspelled: "PLO," "Libya," "death to the Great Satin." He had placed plugs in his ears to dull the sounds of what he was about to do. Patrick Purdy, 26, a drifter with guerrilla-warfare fantasies, had returned to the % school he attended 16 years earlier for a final, cowardly assault...
...remains unclear. Key Palestinian factions have indicated their disapproval for Arafat's initiative. A joint statement by the heads of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Naif Hawatmeh, "Arafat's Geneva statements do not commit the PLO to anything and they do not represent official policy." Arafat's statements also "contradicted the resolutions adopted by the PNC [the Palestine National Council...