Word: yasser
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...among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization had eased pressure on Israel to pursue negotiations toward autonomy for the Palestinians, since there was no one in a position to speak with authority for those West Bank residents. Although King Hussein last week reportedly was willing to renew conversations with Yasser Arafat on whether Jordan should open talks with Israel on the future of the West Bank and Gaza, the P.L.O. leader's besieged position in Tripoli made him seem irrelevant to any negotiations...
...Yasser Arafat, the Houdini of Middle East politics, appeared ready to perform yet another remarkable feat. Last year the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization managed to escape from Beirut with more than 6,000 of his commandos after the Israelis had captured a third of Lebanon and surrounded all of his positions. This year Arafat and his loyalists had held on for three weeks in the vicinity of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli as a vastly larger force of P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman...
...needs are sometimes at variance. For this reason, Israel's President Chaim Herzog, just back from a visit to the U.S. himself, warned his countrymen against having "exaggerated expectations" about Shamir's trip to Washington. And, as the Prime Minister and the President confer, the foes of Yasser Arafat may be learning once again the futility of having exaggerated expectations about the durable P.L.O. leader's demise. -By William E. Smith...
...that question?" demanded Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat after a reporter had inquired whether this was Arafat's last stand in the Middle East. "We are 5 million Palestinians.* We are not the red Indians. We know that we are the sole representatives of the Palestinian people." As he addressed a news conference in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli to show that he was alive and still fighting, Arafat smiled broadly and spoke as boldly as ever. When reporters asked him about his bandaged hand, he said that he had injured it slightly when he fell down...
...clearly timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Polytechnic rebellion. Greek authorities are worried about the rise of Athens as a focus of terrorism. Tsantes' killing was the third political murder in the city since August. The other victims were an aide to P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat and a security officer at the Jordanian embassy. In each of the assassinations, the killers left behind little evidence...