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JERUSALEM -- Yasser Arafat is in a fight to retain his position as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a post he has held for 24 years. A dissident group within the central committee of Fatah, Arafat's faction in the P.L.O., has been threatening to demand his removal. Under pressure...
So why the iron fist? Could Pollard really have been U.S. national enemy #1? Soviet, Iraqi or Cuban spies did not represent "a greater harm to national security"--the accusation Weinberger leveled at Pollard? After all, it's no secret that all nations--even allies--spy on one another. In...
ISRAELI AUTHORITIES NEVER IMAGINED WHAT MEDIA stars they would make of 415 alleged Palestinian militants when they deported the lot to Lebanon two weeks ago. But celebrities they have become. The Lebanese government refused to grant asylum to the deportees, so the group spent the week shuffling through freezing weather...
The grumbling came to a head last month at a meeting of the P.L.O.'s Central Council in Tunis. There Arafat was lambasted for his organization's endemic corruption and his tendency to make decisions alone or with a small group of cronies. Said a council member: "Arafat got the...
At the same time, the chairman is under pressure from other P.L.O. comrades to get out of the talks altogether; they believe the negotiations are a waste of time and the P.L.O.'s exclusion from them an intolerable insult. In Tunis only a narrow majority of the Central Council approved...