Word: tripolis
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Arafat's strategy was based on stubbornness. He held on in Tripoli as long as he could, convinced that one or another group of foreign governments would eventually come to his aid. Sure enough, at week's end the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Syria announced, after several days of intense bargaining in the Syrian capital of Damascus, that they had devised an agreement acceptable to both Arafat and his enemies...
...Palestinians' favor, the Shamir government seemed to be serving notice that it was trying to get rid of some of the unfinished business of the war in Lebanon. It was also worried about the safety of the six Israeli soldiers, knowing that they were being held in the Tripoli area as it came under bombardment and that one of them had reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown. Finally, after weeks of secret negotiations, Israel took the first step: it freed 1,100 Palestinians, most of whom had been held at the Ansar prison camp in southern Lebanon, and flew them...
...same time, Arafat's forces in Tripoli were putting the six Israelis aboard a fishing boat, which took them to a French vessel offshore. They were then transferred to an Israeli naval vessel, which sailed south to the Israeli port of Haifa. From there they were flown to Sde Dov airport, near Tel Aviv, where they received a tumultuous reception from relatives and well-wishers. Once the Israeli prisoners were known to be safe, the Israeli government ordered the release in Lebanon of the remaining 3,500 Arab prisoners. Israel also returned the P.L.O.'s archives, which...
...critical moment. His lieutenants were quick to point out that at a time when the chairman was successfully gaining the release of more than 4,500 Arab prisoners, his enemies within the P.L.O. were pressing on with a battle that had taken nearly 500 lives since the fighting in Tripoli started Nov. 3. In any event, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Syria announced on Friday that both Arafat and the rebels had accepted a plan for a "permanent" cease-fire and an evacuation of all P.L.O. forces from the Tripoli area over a two-week period...
...easy answer to all these spectacles of destruction is that killing is unforgivable, or perhaps the platitude that "War is hell," or even the obvious injunction that it must not happen. But it does keep happening. In Tripoli, the P.L.O. has been hacking itself to pieces, and killing hundreds of innocent bystanders in the process. That is not a nuclear war, to be sure, but the dead and maimed women being shown on the TV screen every evening can hardly appreciate the difference...