Word: plo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jordan was rebuked throughout the Arab world for the excesses of his harsh campaign against the PLO in 1970. As a result, Yasser Arafat's organization became recognized as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinians -- challenging Jordan's stewardship over the West Bank...
...part of our religion and our Shari'a [an Islamic legal code]. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam. Those who sympathize with the infidels-such as the PLO in Palestine or the so-called Palestinian Authority--have been trying for tens of years to get back some of their rights. They laid down arms and abandoned what is called violence and tried peaceful bargaining. What did the Jews give them? They did not give them even...
Leader of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat has accepted important anti-terrorism measures that will make his domestic situation similarly unpleasant. Particularly important are the concrete measures to confiscate illegal weapons and to monitor the incitement of violence; symbolically important is his agreement to delete passages from the PLO's constitution that call for Israel's destruction...
...down in history next to the legendary CIA bid to blow up Castro with an exploding cigar. Can Arafat confirm it? Not likely -- the Palestinian leader has seen way too much skullduggery in his time for this to stick out. "There were several attempts to assassinate him," says a PLO security aide, "but I don't recall an incident with a radio...
...television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO, IBM, ABM, UN, WPA, NBA, NFL, CIA, CNN, PLO, IPO, IRA, IMF, TGIF. And against all odds, we avoided blowing ourselves...