Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely this possibility, that Sadat might make a separate deal with Israel, that both angers and frightens the radical Arabs. At the start of the Tripoli summit, Libya's Gaddafi said to P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat: "I told you all along that Sadat was not a man to trust. Now you know that I was right." Arafat shook his head in silent acquiescence. Without Saudi backing, Sadat simply could not sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about...
...ground. Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, issued an order of the day: "Tighten your grips on your guns. For the next 48 hours anything can happen." Moscow, which backs Arafat and has been at odds with Sadat since he expelled Soviet advisers from Egypt, accused him of a flirtation that could lead to Middle East war once more...
...agree that I should go to Jerusalem," Sadat told newsmen as he left Damascus to return to Cairo, following a chilly send-off from Assad. In a separate interview, Assad said that it was "painful that I could not convince him nor dissuade him from making the trip." Yasser Arafat also deplored the mission on the ground that it threatened Arab unity, and pleaded with Sadat to cancel the trip. The embarrassed Arafat was sitting in the Egyptian parliament as a guest when Sadat announced his willingness to visit Israel. "He looked at me and I stopped applauding," the P.L.O...
...Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod, 48, a native of Jaffa who teaches political science at Northwestern; and Walid Khalidi, a Lebanese national who is a visiting professor lecturing on Middle East affairs at Harvard. Sadat said that Yasser Arafat had agreed to his proposal. The professors have denied receiving any offers...
Infuriated by the casualties, Palestinians again unleashed scattered new rounds of Katyushas, most of which hit around Kibbutz Yir'on near the border. That led to a second Israeli bombing raid. The fedayeen were ordered to cease firing by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Earlier in the week, Arafat had been present at an extraordinary nationally televised address to the Egyptian parliament by President Anwar Sadat, who did not even mention the air raids that had just taken place in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to their...