Word: yasser
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...have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." Yasser Arafat's tenor voice was urgent and his fluid arms moved to match his Arabic imagery last week as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (TIME cover, Nov. 11) concluded an extraordinary 80-minute speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat, dressed in a fawn windbreaker and brown trousers and wearing both his familiar black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh and a pistol holster, which aides insisted was empty, finished his perorations, walked away...
ISRAEL IS IN THE DEPTHS of the gravest crisis in its twenty-six year history as an independent state. The Palestine Liberation Organization has been granted official recognition by both Arab governments at the Rabat summit and by the General Assembly of the United Nations, where Yasser Arafat's call for Israel's dismantlement was greeted with a standing ovation. Terrorist incursions into Israel have taken the lives of 57 people so far this year, and despite stringent security measures and brutal retaliatory raids into Lebanon, the attacks have not been thwarted...
Arriving in Cairo, Kissinger admitted that the Rabat summit's endorsement of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat had "complicated matters." As it happened, Arafat was also in the Egyptian capital, to discuss his forthcoming visit to the U.N. with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Kissinger refused to admit the possibility that he and the fedayeen leader might confer face to face. "We'd be crazy to switch our signals and push the Israelis into dealing with Arafat now," said a U.S. official...
Yosef H. Yerushalmi, professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, said Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, provides a "temporary solidifying position, a rallying point for Arab opposition to Israel...
...jubilant Yasser Arafat projected an image of satisfaction and optimism as he talked with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn after the Rabat summit last week. The P.L.O. leader was not wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh and dark glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when...