Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group remained dourly uncertain. At Arab League headquarters in Cairo, 177 shirt-sleeved delegates of the Palestine National Council-a parliament of Palestinians hi exile-gathered to debate their next move. All the delegates also belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a conglomerate of six guerrilla organizations led by Yasser Arafat, which faces a dilemma: How can it continue to hold out against Israeli presence hi its homeland and at the same time withstand pressure from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to join the movement toward peace...
...Palestine. The King's statement suddenly put pressure on P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. Up till now, his organization has been split. Some fedayeen organizations, including Arafat's own Fatah, are reconciled to accepting the existence of Israel and attending the Geneva talks. At least initially, they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state...
...adamantly backs the fedayeen movement but has the muscle to keep the guerrillas within its borders on a tight leash. Lebanon, on the other hand, has never been able to control the thousands of armed commandos who live within Israel's most vulnerable and militarily impotent neighbor. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and other fedayeen officials have their headquarters in Beirut. Moreover, the fedayeen military equipment is probably more modern than that of Lebanon's 16,000 man, U.S.-supplied army. After last week's raid, commando Jeeps appeared carrying SA-7 Soviet antiaircraft missiles...
...missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...
They also called upon the Palestine Liberation Organization headed by Yasser Arafat to form a government in exile as the first step toward reclaiming land now held by the Israelis, including Gaza and the Jordan West Bank. Sadat also persuaded the Palestinians and Jordan to accept another resolution, specifying that both would get back territory captured by the Israelis. For the Jordanians, who have usually rejected the fedayeen's claims to the West Bank, this was a rare accommodation...