Word: yasser
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Under Sadat's latest plan, Hussein would negotiate with Israel for the return of the West Bank, but the King could not occupy it militarily until a plebiscite was held among Palestinians to decide which government they preferred. Sadat had discussed the idea with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, and will bring it up again at an Arab summit in Rabat next week...
...time, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political umbrella of the guerrilla movement, acknowledged a serious split in its ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough to convene an emergency meeting in Damascus last week; it formed a committee...
...Yasser Arafat, 44, still wears the green fatigues, desert boots and bullet-studded pistol belt of an underground fighter. But the founder of al-Fatah and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is now more politician and diplomat than guerrilla commander. He travels almost constantly around the Arab world, shoring up support for his movement. Arafat's zeal for the Palestinians' cause is undiminished, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager after an interview with the P.L.O. chairman in Beirut, but it has become tempered with pragmatism. Excerpts...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...
...stone in a basket of eggs, you had better worry. We consider the P.L.O. a stone in a basket of eggs. They are basically against a compromise by the Palestinians. They see a Palestinian state as the first step in a long road to overthrow Israel. Yasser Arafat, leader of the P.L.O., is heavily oriented toward the Soviet Union. I cannot think of any Israeli who will agree to have Russian experts and Russian missiles at the gates of Jerusalem or the entrance to Tel Aviv...