Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peace plan has increased sharply. Though little was accomplished, the two-day Soviet- American talks in Vienna last week were the first high-level discussions on the Middle East that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have held since 1977. A week earlier, King Hussein of Jordan and P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat had agreed on a joint approach to the Palestinian problem. The accord, the text of which Jordan released last Saturday, predictably called for Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupies. But the agreement also offered a conditional acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242, which acknowledges Israel's right...
...Amman, Jordan's King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, agreed on a "framework for common action" in reaching a settlement with Israel over the fate of some 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Though exact terms of the accord were not released, the U.S. was told through diplomatic channels that it contained at least the implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist...
...persuading a majority of the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.), a parliament-in-exile for the Palestinian movement, to hold its annual meeting in the Jordanian capital of Amman last week, Yasser Arafat once again demonstrated his talents as a survivor...
...meeting had been promised for nearly a year, then scheduled, canceled and scheduled again. At one point Yasser Arafat vowed to hold it on a boat at sea if no other site could be found. The Palestine National Council, a sort of parliament in exile, finally convened in Amman last week for its annual session. Next to Arafat sat King Hussein of Jordan, who glossed over past differences with the P.L.O. leader to be host to the convention in his capital. "You have defeated attempts to impose guardianship," Hussein told the delegates, "and proved once again that the Palestine Liberation...
...supplant Egypt as the most influential Arab power. Hussein was especially angered by what he considered to be Syria's attempt to gain control of the movement for Palestinian nationalism. In May 1983, Damascus fueled the fires of revolt within the Palestine Liberation Organization against its leader, Yasser Arafat. Then last November, Syria encouraged Palestinian rebels to besiege Arafat in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli. The P.L.O. chief finally escaped, but his authority had been badly tattered...