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...Palestinians, as well as the Syrians and Lebanese, had been attending a three-day meeting in Tripoli of what Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called the Allied Leadership of the Revolutionary Forces of the Arab Nation. Representatives of 22 Palestinian and other Arab organizations had been called together for a meeting at Gaddafi's stronghold, the Bab al Azizia barracks. The purpose: to demonstrate radical Arab support for Gaddafi in the face of U.S. naval maneuvers taking place off the Libyan coast. The delegates, who included Habash and Jabril, duly approved an eleven-point resolution proposing, among other things, the creation...
...delegates had left early aboard the Libyan executive jet, but Habash, Jabril and other leaders of pro-Syria Palestine Liberation Organization factions had remained behind or left by other means. Once the news of the Israeli seizure reached Tripoli, Jabril angrily threatened to avenge the interception with attacks on Israeli and even American airliners. Summoning journalists to a press conference, he declared: "Tell the world not to board American or Israeli planes. From this day onward, we will not respect civilians who take such planes...
Habash, whose organization helped pioneer skyjack terrorism in 1968 but later publicly disavowed the tactic, acknowledged that he had flown from Damascus to Tripoli aboard the same plane earlier in the week and said he believed he had been an intended target of the Israeli interception. Said Habash, who was nearly kidnaped by Israeli commandos during a similar attack in 1973: "The capture of any Palestinian leader is a good thing from their point of view...
...TRIPOLI, Libya -- Moammar Khadafy has urged Arab militants to pool their efforts for an "intensified struggle against imperialism" in Europe and the United States, high-ranking Palestinian officials said yesterday...
...with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart. The car, along with the security vehicles that accompanied it, eventually came to a halt at a private club, where the discussion proceeded over dinner. Though his country remains deeply troubled, Amin Gemayel, 43, sounded unexpectedly optimistic, insisting that the recent unrest in Tripoli and Beirut is like "the last battle in a long war." Indeed, the major factions in Lebanon's ten-year civil war last week agreed to a Syrian-sponsored proposal to end the fighting. Gemayel endorsed the plan at week's end during talks in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez...