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BEIRUT, Lebanon-Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) opened intensive secret negotiations yesterday on the details of their proposed "honorable retreat" from encircled West Beirut. Lebanese officials reported...
They were said to favor an evacuation to another Arab state by passenger ships flying the PLO flag...
...PLO nevertheless continued issuing statement defiantly pledging to fight on in Beirut "until victory or martyrdom...
...HJLSA eventually settled on the proper approach, once it became clear that the Law School wasn't going to rescind its invitation to Abu-Loghod. Some 150 people protested outside the building an which she spoke, some loudly criticizing the PLO's tacties not Abu-Loghod's right to speak. That shows of strength probably did more to bolster the students position than excluding the rival speaker...
...many of the PLO and Pattullo controversies, then, seems stark. Few groups have tried harder to impress upon others the need for the tolerance than Jews or homosexuals, both groups, with long his tones of discrimination, have made impressive strides, certainly on this campus. In seeking to secure their states, both groups recently sought either directly as in the PLO instance, or indirectly, as in the GSA case--to silence their critics. Neither, it seems, has learned a fundamental lesson that groups who preach tolerance cannot be in-tolerant towards opposing views without inviting a dangerous--and intolerant backlash...