Word: yasser
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...message from Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was shrill and urgent: "Our forces are under heavy Israeli attack. Enemy warplanes are overhead. We need help desperately." Visiting southern Lebanon to persuade Palestinian fighters there to accept a peace arrangement with Lebanese Christians, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader suddenly found himself under fire. Arafat and his men were besieged at Beaufort Castle-a historic Crusader fort in the shadow of Mount Hermon-not only by Christian gunners but also by Israeli artillery. Under cover of those guns, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across...
...Palestinian strategy, reported TIME'S Dean Brelis and Abu Said Abu Rish from Beirut, is a p.r. blitz focusing on Israel as the big obstacle to a Middle East settlement. "We're not blocking peace," says a P.L.O. spokesman. "Israel is." To press that point, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat plans to fly to New York next month (aboard an Algerian-lent 707 jet) to push for a new United Nations resolution-to be introduced by an as yet undesignated Arab delegation-that will call for the recognition of Israel in exchange for solid guarantees of a Palestinian state...
...Israeli clash despite the artificial joviality surrounding Begin's recent U.S. visit. The U.S. now accepts the Arab argument-with softer qualifications than before-that Palestinians should be included in negotiations. Moreover, Washington is searching for some way to open a dialogue between the U.S. and Yasser Arafat's P.L.O.-if the Palestinians are willing to accept the terms of an American push for peace...
Vance did not not meet with any Palestinians, but P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat preceded (and in some places also followed) the U.S. diplomat at every stop except Jordan. Arriving in Alexandria after Vance had departed, Arafat convinced Sadat to modify the "working group" idea by including-as a smiling Arafat described it-"a new paragraph on the Palestinians." Added an Egyptian official: "It leaves no doubt that the Palestinian rights will be respected...
Amid the growing complexity of East-West power games around the Horn of Africa, relations between Cairo and Tripoli remained tense last week, even though the shooting had stopped. At the urging of Arab peacemakers, in particular Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, both sides agreed to a mini-summit to settle the miniwar. There was no certainty that either Sadat or Gaddafi-who was mysteriously out of public view during the fighting -would attend. The mood was surly, particularly since losses appeared to have been high for so brief...