Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scarcely 48 hours earlier, Arafat and about 4,000 of his loyalist forces had been evacuated from the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, where they had been besieged by Syrian-backed P.L.O. rebels and shelled by Israeli naval guns. The ever flexible Arafat quickly looked for new support-and appeared to find it in Cairo. As he arrived by helicopter from Ismailia on the Suez Canal, the P.L.O. chairman received a warm embrace from Mubarak. Later, after a conversation that lasted almost two hours, Mubarak hailed his guest as a "moderate leader of the Palestinian people." Arafat...
...unexpectedly warm encounter-some Middle East experts called it a "historic meeting"-had significance for both men. For Arafat it was a gamble, but also something of a diplomatic coup, coming so quickly after the expulsion from Tripoli. A rapprochement with Cairo, which had been isolated in the Arab world since the Sadat peace initiative, could lead to stronger ties between Arafat's segment of the P.L.O. and the moderate governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan. It might even bring about a resumption of discussions between Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein to determine a common front...
...that Yasser Arafat's presence is causing death and destruction in Tripoli [Dec. 5], where are all those voices of conscience that were so outspoken about the tragedy in 1982 at the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps? We should have continuous TV coverage, Security Council resolutions and Vatican statements condemning the violence in Tripoli instead of the condoning silence...
...Jersey's thunder had its echoes across the Middle East and beyond. In Tripoli, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists were preparing to flee. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Israeli troops helped evacuate Christian civilians and Phalangist militiamen from a town besieged by Druze forces for the past three months. Some 900 miles to the southeast, in the gulf state of Kuwait, terrorists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks that bore the increasingly familiar fingerprints of spreading Shi'ite fanaticism...
Farther north, around Tripoli, the evacuation of P.L.O. troops besieged by Syrian-backed Palestinians finally began. On Saturday, an Italian ferryboat took 93 wounded P.L.O. fighters to Cyprus with the help of the International Red Cross. As five Greek ships prepared to evacuate Arafat and his remaining troops to Tunisia and North Yemen, Israeli gunboats shelled his positions. Said an Israeli official: "We want him to sweat a little...