Word: yasser
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...Europeans the impression that he opposed the cutoff, has privately asked the British to act as a link between the U.S. and the P.L.O. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has agreed to Baker's request, and will soon visit the Middle East, where he is expected to meet with Yasser Arafat. The P.L.O. leader has accepted the Baker approach...
Even before he arrived in New York, there were rumblings among American Jews about Mandela's praise for the Palestine Liberation Organization. He has met with Yasser Arafat three times since his release from prison in February. Much of that concern had been put to rest -- or at least diplomatically laid aside -- after a June 10 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at which Mandela assured a contingent of American Jewish leaders that he supported Israel's right to exist within secure borders. There was no such comfort for Cuban Americans in Miami, where Mandela is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. They...
...Israeli Prime Minister a few weeks back. But just talk. Yitzhak Shamir and his hard-line colleagues have shrugged off worse from Washington before. So they sat tight, and last Wednesday their arrogance was rewarded. Baker's studied pique was undermined by Washington's suspension of its dialogue with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. It would now appear that the U.S. is talking to neither side in the Arab-Israeli dispute, a stance that at best is dangerous: history proves that the Middle East roils whenever prospects for peace recede...
...dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israelis insist that an abortive Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv's beaches two weeks ago demonstrated that the P.L.O. has not given up terrorism. The raid was staged by a P.L.O. faction called the Palestine Liberation Front, but so far P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has refused U.S. pleas to condemn the operation and to sever ties with Muhammad Abbas, the group's chieftain and ringleader of the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...