Word: yasser
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Last week made it three defeats in a row. Yasser Arafat, who heads the Al-Fatah guerrillas and last week was named commander in chief of the twelve major guerrilla organizations, flew into Amman from Cairo to arrange a truce. In an all-night session at the palace, he and Hussein hammered out a ten-point pact, mostly favorable to the fedayeen...
...parade with their prisoners and captured booty through the streets of Kiryat Shemona. Even so, it was not an unvarnished Israeli victory. Israeli troopers admitted later that the fedayeen had fought well; one guerrilla calmly fired 16 rockets at advancing tanks before he was finally killed. Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who directed some of the battle, promised that raids against Israel would continue. "The Israeli attacks," he said, "will only step up, not diminish our determination to strike at them...
...electronic summer in the air will probably be accompanied by a far less sophisticated slugging match on the ground. Israeli and Syrian patrols battled once more last week on the Golan Heights. While Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat was off in Peking seeking aid, his guerrillas were busy fighting-but not against Israel. They shot up a Lebanese army truck, wounding three soldiers, and kidnaped 15 customs men. It was reportedly the first time the army had been directly involved in the crisis...
...power efforts toward peace. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's war of attrition, designed "to regain by force that which was taken by force," has been foiled by successful Israeli reprisals and pre-emptive strikes. The result is a war of stalemate-what Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat last week called "the war of the long breath" (see color pages...
...involved the destruction of minor objectives like power lines or culverts, and accused the Israelis of overreacting. Nevertheless, no one in the Middle East takes Israeli threats lightly. Beirut's airraid warning system was brushed off and tested, and hurried calls were put through to Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat in Amman. Arafat's guerrillas temporarily ceased most activities and quietly pulled back from a number of advance positions close to the border between the two countries...