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...Israeli frame of mind was not helped by the evidence that the commandos have not abandoned terrorism as a tactic. Just as the Rabat summit ended, three fedayeen were caught crossing into Israel from Lebanon; they were shot to death after an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis reacted predictably by dispatching a fleet of small warships up the Mediterranean coast. The boats stood three miles offshore from a Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh in Lebanon and bombarded it, killing five Palestinians and injuring...
Wounded Wolves. Israeli fears about the future were magnified by the fact that Arafat was anything but gracious over the Rabat decision (see interview page 31). "Victory is close at hand," he told the summit session. "This enemy, this military gang [meaning Israel] is a pack of wounded wolves. They are preparing for a fifth war, and we must get ready for it." Syrians whom Washington constantly suspects of trying to sabotage the Kissinger peace negotiations echoed Arafat's warlike words. They indicated that Damascus would probably approve another six-month tour for United Nations troops that separate Syrians...
...achieving the P.L.O.'s goal of a new secular, democratic Palestine to replace Israel. Suspecting that Arafat was getting soft on the enemy, Habash recently pulled the P.F.L.P. out of the P.L.O.'s executive committee (many Palestinians are still trying to get him back in). Prior to the Rabat summit, he warned against the dangers of "capitulating" to the U.S. and Israel on the Palestine issue, and threatened to set up a new radical liberation group that would oppose the P.L.O. Habash's hard stand was backed by Iraq, which, along with Libya, forms part of the so-called rejection...
...jubilant Yasser Arafat projected an image of satisfaction and optimism as he talked with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn after the Rabat summit last week. The P.L.O. leader was not wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh and dark glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when...
...Luis Echeverria Alvarez told President Ford last month that Mexico would export its oil at world prices, diluting hopes that it might undercut those vastly inflated quotes. These just might begin coming down soon anyway. A Saudi Arabian official last week reportedly told delegates to the Arab summit at Rabat that his nation would shortly make a unilateral price cut of less than 10%; officially, the Saudis denied the report. In any case, the U.S. is pleased to welcome Mexico to the ranks of oil exporters. Though Mexico will sell some of its exported oil to other Latin American countries...