Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senior Producer Betsy West. "Old hands might have said, 'Don't even try.' " Plans were begun last fall, but the assassination three weeks ago of P.L.O. Leader Khalil al-Wazir increased tensions and made it more difficult to line up guests. Among those who refused to appear: P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein...
...seven men and one woman, had already killed al-Wazir's Tunisian driver and two Palestinian bodyguards. Then, with the brutal efficiency of a well-trained hit squad, they turned their fire on al-Wazir and riddled his body with a prolonged spray of bullets. Al-Wazir, 52, Yasser Arafat's most trusted lieutenant, who was known worldwide by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was dead...
...taking of Flight 422 raises tensions and tempers throughout the Middle East. -- Abu Jihad, Yasser Arafat' s second in command, is murdered in Tunis. -- An interview with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. -- Four nations sign an accord securing the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, but peace remains an elusive prospect...
...second attempted infiltration in nine days at the same location and the 10th across Israel's borders since November. An April 5 attempt was claimed by two factions of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization...
...staple of the Middle East tourist trade and a basic component of wardrobes in the Levant, the kaffiyeh came to the U.S. via Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some...