Word: yasser
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Prior to last week's summit, the Fahd plan had drawn favorable comment from Western Europe, mild encouragement from the Reagan Administration and qualified endorsement from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who called it a "good beginning." Two weeks ago, the plan was approved by the five Persian Gulf states that, along with the Saudis, constitute the newly formed Gulf Cooperation Council...
P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, who has called the Fahd plan "a good beginning," although he has not backed it, was lobbying discreetly to put the proposal on the Fez agenda. But he faced strong opposition from radicals within his own ranks...
Syria charged that the Arab regimes cooperating with the maneuvers were "agents of imperialism." Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat called the maneuvers part of an American-Zionist plot against the Arabs. Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi charged that Bright Star could be expanded into an invasion of Libya...
...that the deal "will inevitably contribute to stability and the peace process" in the area. There were some initial glimmers of hope: Egypt's new President Hosni Mubarak said that he would try to renew ties with Arab nations critical of the peace process, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat said that he welcomed a peace plan proposed last August by the Saudis that implicitly calls for coexistence between Israel and the Arab nations...
...ally and, like Egypt, had suffered from Libya's belligerency. But in Libya, happy flag-waving crowds shouted their approval. In Lebanon, Palestinian commandos danced in the streets as if celebrating a victory. "We shake the hand that pulled the trigger," said one fedayeen commander. Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Peking, declared: "What we are witnessing is the beginning of the failure of the Camp David agreement with the fall of one of its symbols." A number of other Arab governments were outwardly unsympathetic but inwardly troubled. The Saudis broke with Sadat over Camp David...