Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reacting intelligently. The U.S. shift in the Middle East came only after Yasser Arafat finally accepted Israel's right to exist. "Once you're confronted with something someone else has put forward," says Baker, "the measure should be how you turn it to your advantage...
...that the U.S. is talking to Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, what should the next step be? For Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, two moderates whose unofficial alliance is seen by the U.S. as a key to peace in the region, the answer is obvious -- and familiar: get the U.S. to budge Israel...
Investigators privately admit that in the end they may have to depend on getting a tip from an informer to learn the identities of the terrorists. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat agreed to assist the investigation last week, but the initial results of his offer only served to show how frustrating the probe could become. Even though Arafat maintains an extensive network of security men who keep an eye on Palestinian extremists, an Arafat spokesman said that "so far, the P.L.O. does not have any clues...
...Revolutionary Council allegedly carried out the 1985 Christmas massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. He too would like to scuttle Arafat's Middle East peace moves. "Such an act of terrorism by Abu Nidal would be a message to the U.S. and a slap in the face for Yasser Arafat," said Ian Geldard, director of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism. Allied with Libya, Abu Nidal would presumably have access to Muammar Gaddafi's ample supply of Semtex, a plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia...
...star of last year's other showstopper was Yasser Arafat. His performance in the theater of self-transformation was more drawn out, and the applause more restrained. Gorbachev's act was tough to follow in more ways than one. The idea of meaningful change is easier to accept when it comes from someone with a relatively fresh face and a reputation for boldness and candor. Decades of familiarity with Arafat's role as both Jekyll and Hyde have bred if not contempt then at least deep suspicion. The effect of Arafat's trademarks -- the kaffiyeh, the pseudo uniform, the cultivated...