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Noting that the terrorists belong to a faction that opposes P.L.O. leader Yassir Arafat, Mylroie said the hijacking was likely intended to sabotage peace negotiations currently underway between Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein...
...history of racially motivated insults directed his way, including his daughter's admissions interview for Harvard three years ago. In a Crimson interview. Jackson charges Chicago attorney Stephen B. Cohen '61 with "harassment" of Santita Jackson because of her father's 1979 meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat...
First, the destruction of the PLO, accomplished jointly in the past two years by Israeli, Syria, and factions within the organization itself, has almost removed the terrorist group as a viable factor in the Middle East. The rout of Yassir Arafat's and his men from Beirut, the subsequent fragmentation of the group, and now sectarian fighting in Tripoli have finally demonstrated to the world the utterbankruptcy of this band of terror and its complete lack of a mandate from the unfortunate Palestinian people. If Yassir Arafat's veto on negotiations can finally be removed, all parties, including the truly...
Though such a move might well bolster third world unity, for any group to declare formal support for the PLO would be misguided. Despite the show put on by PLO leader Yassir Arafat for Western journalists last summer, the PLO is a violent terrorist organization, not a political representative of the Palestinian people...
Israel will never turn over the West Bank to an unsupervised Palestinian government. Such a move would be an invitation to further PLO-engineered violence, and no Israeli administration could hope to stay in power after an apparent surrender to Yassir Arafat. The only real hope at this point is that enough Israeli citizens will realize that Begin's confrontational policies have only threatened their nation's long-term security by unifying Arab forces and alienating American opinion...