Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMMAN, Jordan--King Hussein said yesterday he has ended a year-long effort to work jointly with Yasser Arafat toward peace with Israel because the PLO did not meet its commitments...
More than 20 hard-line organizations opposed to Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization took part. The PLO was not invited, and Nayef Hawatmeh's Moscow-oriented Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine did not attend...
...Jordanian capital of Amman, two days of closed-door discussions between supposed peace partners yielded far more ambiguous conclusions. At their first meeting since the Achille Lauro hijacking, King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, hammered out at least a temporary continuance of their Feb. 11 agreement to reach a negotiated settlement with Israel. The two thereby blunted Israeli hopes that the P.L.O. might be squeezed out of the peace negotiations...
...aftermath, Yasser Arafat said the U.S. was guilty of "cowboy logic." It seemed to Americans an oddly flat and barbless phrase, something like the boiler-plate invective ("capitalist roaders," "unreliable elements") for which Communist regimes have a dreary genius. Terrorism is a haunted house, theater in the shadows. It needs its ugly special effects. Terror depends, so to speak, upon absolute artistic control. But suddenly in the Achille Lauro case, the house lights came up, and Arafat found himself blinking uncomfortably at the audience. No wonder his rhetoric sounded lame...
...Organization (UNESCO), and has refused to submit to the jurisdiction of another U.N. offshoot, the International Court of Justice. Last week the White House almost canceled President Reagan's speaking engagement at the U.N., scheduled for this Thursday, after some Third World nations demanded that Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat be invited to speak as well. Only when a confrontation threatened to wreck the festivities did Arafat's sponsors relent...