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...Department last year described it as "the most dangerous terrorist organization in existence." Its leader is possibly the world's most wanted man, accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo-based...
...renunciation of terrorism last December -- however grudging and ambiguous -- helped isolate Abu Nidal in the Arab world, and may have intensified the infighting within F.R.C. ranks. The P.L.O.'s concern is that the taint of terrorism could deny it a major role in Israeli-proposed Palestinian elections. Last week Arafat persuaded a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Tunis to urge Presidents Bush and Gorbachev to recognize the P.L.O. as a major force for peace...
Beginning next week, Chip's signature will appear at the bottom of this column...
...addition to our coverage of the Malta summit and other world events, you will find two unique pieces of journalism in this week's issue. One is an interview with East German leader Egon Krenz, the first he has given to an American magazine. The discussion deals with the fall of the Wall, German reunification, the future of socialism and Krenz's decision to avoid bloodshed in Leipzig. The other story is an amazing reconstruction of what went on behind the scenes in Prague in the months before the fall of the Communist regime. These are only two examples...
That same week, in preparation for the next Monday, Oct. 16 ((when more demonstrations were expected)), I went to Leipzig, together with people who were responsible for security. We drew up instructions that 1) any kind of violent confrontation must be avoided, 2) in no case should firearms be used, and this was summed up in an order by the chairman of the National Defense Committee. I then went to the room in which we are now sitting and presented the order to Honecker. I insisted on his signing it, which...