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...peace with the P.L.O. At a summit meeting of Arab leaders in Rabat, Morocco, in 1974, the King agreed that the P.L.O., not Jordan, would represent the interests of the 720,000 residents of the West Bank, the Jordanian territory that was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about 2,000 P.L.O. guerrillas in order to sustain his hopes of becoming the leading spokesman for the moderate Arab states. Hussein is confident that he has enough control of the restive factions of his country to permit the return of the guerrillas...
What is equally obvious is that, whatever the fate of the P.L.O., the problem of the Palestinians will not disappear. It has been present since the founding of Israel in 1948 and has been growing in intensity since Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War of 1967. The Camp David accords promised "autonomy" to the Palestinians, though Begin and Sharon often seem more imbued with the idea of annexation. To many Israelis, the thought of incorporating 1.3 million Arabs is a demographic nightmare for a country whose current population already includes...
...UNIFIL in Lebanon, "are thumbing their noses at the U.N. and what it stands for." One notable breakdown: from 1956 until 1967, a force helped maintain an uneasy calm between Israel and Egypt, only to be ordered out of Egyptian territory by President Gamal Abdel Nasser shortly before the Six-Day War. One notable success: since 1964, U.N. troops have served as a buffer between the antagonistic Greek and Turkish populations on Cyprus...
During his six-day pastoral visit to England, Scotland and Wales that ended last week, Pope John Paul II evoked the sobering specter of modern warfare at nearly every stop. To a Britain at war, the Pope offered a vision of peace-of the inviolable worth and dignity of every soul on earth. At an open-air Mass, he told 300,000 cheerful but attentive listeners that, if unleashed, society's war machines today would make even the destruction of World War II pale in comparison. He spoke near the most renowned landmark in Coventry, England: the remnant...
...plane from Britain to Rome, the Pope mingled informally with the press corps on board. He was in high spirits, fairly brimming over with satisfaction over the way the six-day pilgrimage had gone. But behind the Pope's back, some Vatican officials complain that John Paul spends too much time making and planning trips and not enough on the administration of the Holy See. They could perhaps point to the current labor situation in Rome, where a labor association representing most of the 1,800 lay employees in the world's smallest state plans an unprecedented...