Word: yasser
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Begin would keep its word. For weeks, in addition, there had been reports that the Israeli armed forces, spurred on by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, were ready to launch a large-scale strike against Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, fully expecting an Israeli assault, was exerting all his influence to prevent some of the more radical Palestinian factions from launching their own attack across the Lebanese-Israeli border. In an effort to head off an Israeli strike and hold the Israelis to their promise of withdrawing from the Sinai by the scheduled date...
According to the U.S. State Department, Handal has close links with the Soviet Union and Cuba, and often travels to both countries, as well as to other East bloc members. He also has ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in particular to its leader, Yasser Arafat. Handal has been active in the purchase of arms for the Salvadoran guerrillas. Richard Araujo, a Latin American expert at the Heritage Foundation, says of Handal: "He'd like to be the Latin American Arafat...
...Yasser Arafat claims a Palestinian state would be "very democratic, liberal, nonaligned" [Feb. 8]-just like the states supporting him now: democratic Iraq, liberal Iran, nonaligned Cuba...
...Yasser Arafat warns of an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon...
...call came at 9:30 p.m.: Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, would grant an interview that night. Two hours later, Murray Gart, a Time Inc. senior editor, and TIME Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro were led by a P.L.O. representative through pitch-black streets, past a checkpoint and two platoons of soldiers. It was just after midnight when Arafat welcomed the visitors to an air-conditioned, wood-paneled conference room at his Beirut headquarters. He spoke of his frustrations over U.S. support for Israel and his fears of an impending Israeli strike on southern Lebanon. Excerpts from...