Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, living in the dream world that Sartawi disdained, deserves much blame for this latest outbreak of hit-and-run political murder. True, it was a splinter faction led by one of Arafat's worm enemies that ordered the slaying and took credit for it soon after. But it was Arafat himself who had effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear...
...approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain dearly for their apostasy...
Yasir Arafat had the opportunity last week to dissociate himself from the mafioso style of politics that has long characterized inner PLO circles. Instead, speaking to reporters in North Yemen, the guerrilla chieftain, in an unfounded and preposterous charge, blamed Israeli agents for the Sartawi assassination. Despite such consistently irresponsible behavior, a number of European governments--Greece and Austria among-them--have established close relationships with PLO representatives. The PLO, they argue, should be welcomed into the diplomatic community by both the United States and Israel as the legitimate voice for Palestinian national aspirations...
...cultural up lift for the anomie segments of the Black lower class. But such indifference by Afro-American elites to the needs and concerns of Third World communities like the Palestinians is moral unacceptable and politically cowardice. I therefore welcome BALSA's decision to consider a resolution endorsing the PLO as the legitimate represntative of the Palestinian people. I also welcome an affirmative vote...
...else, for God's sake, is "the legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people? The majority editorial of the Crimson staff (March 21) defies both common sense and political reality. The terrorist posture of the PLO while far from my preference, is no more fixed in concrete than that of any other national community bidding for status as a state. A political solution to the Palestinian problem requires recognition of the PLO. Martin Kilson Professor of Government