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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as some in the U.S. Government and Israeli intelligence, probably the world's best trackers of terrorist groups, point to Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Fourteen members of Jibril's group, which fiercely opposes P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's decision to recognize Israel's right to exist and open talks with the U.S., were arrested by West German authorities in October. Seized with them was a cache of arms that included the ultimate boom box: a portable radio packed with a plastic explosive so cleverly concealed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diabolically Well-Planned: Pan Am's Flight 103 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...government may be called national unity, but it will lean distinctly to the right. Both parties agreed to strict limits on the steps Israel would take toward peace. In a nine-page coalition contract, Likud and Labor flatly rejected recent proposals in P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's peace campaign, saying the Israeli government "will not negotiate with the P.L.O." Instead, the pact reiterated Likud's long-standing call for direct talks with Israel's Arab neighbors, such as Jordan, and adopted Labor's offer to include non- P.L.O. Palestinians who live in the occupied territories. "We must do everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Saying No to Arafat | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

British diplomats confirmed last week that the U.S. and Britain had received warnings from the Palestine Liberation Organization that Arab rejectionists, aroused by P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's decision to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, were likely to punctuate their anger with an act of savagery. On Friday, after visiting Pope John Paul II in Rome, Arafat said that if sabotage had been behind the crash, "it is a criminal action we condemn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror In the Night: The Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...still reason to doubt Arafat's Christmas conversion from gunslinger to peacemaker. No one knows if he can deliver. No one knows what the U.S. and, more important, Israel can deliver. But diplomacy, even the hard-nosed kind, is an act of faith. "Come, let us make peace," Yasser Arafat said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough : After 13 years of silence, the U.S. agrees to talk with the P.L.O. | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Talking to Yasser Arafat is not like talking to Mikhail Gorbachev. During the past three years, in word and deed, Gorbachev has earned the West's cautious trust. The INF treaty, the recent announcement of planned unilateral reductions in Soviet conventional forces, the removal of old-line naysayers suggest, in Margaret Thatcher's words, that Gorbachev is a man with whom "we can do business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Skepticism | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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