Word: yasser
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...Only the Dominican Republic and Bolivia voted with the U.S. and Israel when the General Assembly, by a margin of 105 to 4, invited the P.L.O.?with its long record of terrorism?to join in the debate over the Palestine issue. The U.N. welcomed P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat as a conquering hero and gave his organization permanent observer status...
...Israelis were responsible for the attack, the fedayeen quickly acted. The day after the Beirut raid, a young man in a cinema in Tel Aviv tossed homemade hand grenades into the audience. Three people-including the terrorist-were killed and nearly 60 injured. In Beirut, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat declared: "We have retaliated for the Beirut attack." However, some neutral observers questioned whether the attack was retaliatory. They doubt that the P.L.O. could so quickly organize the operation. Credit for the attack was claimed by George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group opposed...
After the Beirut bombing, Yasser Abed Rabbo, a pro-Arafat P.L.O. leader, declared: "We shall teach the enemy that its crimes will not go unpunished." To back these tough words, the guerrillas rocketed two towns in Israel Thursday night. Although no casualties were reported, Israel retaliated once again and bombarded the Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh. The Israelis also intercepted a band of Fatah guerillas soon after it had infiltrated from Lebanon. Four Arab terrorists and one Israeli policeman were killed in the gun battle...
Even if Kissinger can solve this impasse, there are other complications. Israel is adamant against broadening the talks to include Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, which the Arab nations have designated to represent all Palestinians. The U.S., so far at least, accepts Israel's views...
...most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state for both Arabs and Jews. The Bet She'an raid chillingly reinforced the conviction of most Israelis that...