Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to try to get a ceasefire...
...provisional Palestinian government in 1973. He brought it up again for two reasons. First, he views the Palestinians as the linchpin in a comprehensive Middle East agreement under the Camp David accords. Second, he feels that the present Palestinian leadership, notably that of Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, is unable to withstand pressures from Syria and the U.S.S.R. Sadat reasons that a government in exile formed by all Palestinians, P.L.O. members as well as Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, might yield a stronger leadership. It would also help the Palestinians move toward...
...Organization's use of southern Lebanon as a base of operations for incursions into Israel. "Lebanon is no longer able to bear the death and destruction," said Sarkis. "I place the case in your hands, asking justice, and I am sure you are capable of this." P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat listened impassively, scribbling notes...
...inconclusive meeting between National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Iran's then Premier Mehdi Bazargan. After the hostages were seized by the militant Iranians, the Tehran government asked Algeria to represent its interests in Washington. Thus a certain logic was involved when Iran, at the urging of Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, last November asked Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Yahia to help arrange a hostage deal...
...histrionic outbursts and for an unyielding determination to plant more Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank, lashed out at Hurvitz. Said he: "If you want to hand Greater Israel over to Shimon Peres so that he can pass it on in its entirety to [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader] Yasser Arafat, why don't you say so instead of making all this economic talk?" Hurvitz, who had resigned from the Cabinet once before in opposition to the Camp David peace accords, was not about to relent. When the Cabinet finally voted to give the teachers the increase, he made...