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...Chairman Yasser Arafat is subject to a constituency that can usually only agree to disagree. He is merely first among 3 million or so Palestinian equals, scattered across a dozen countries and linked together by a host of overlapping groups. Arafat persuades by force of personality; rarely does he command. Some say he has survived as leader after nine years mostly because he must spend his time moderating instead of moving too far front...
...overthrow not only Israel but also conservative Arab governments like Saudi Arabia-Arafat's bankroller. Both Fatah and Habash's group have had bitter quarrels with four smaller but vociferous members of the P.L.O.-the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command (now split into pro-Iraq-Libya and pro-Syria factions), the Syrian-dominated Al Saiqa and the Iraq-based Arab Liberation Front...
...perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with the British Air Command for his World War II stories. His work was also the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives...
DIED. Laurence E. Bunker, 75, former chief aide to General Douglas MacArthur; of cancer; in Boston. Bunker retired from the Army in 1952, following Truman's dismissal of the five-star general from his Korean command. During the '50s, Bunker became a member of the national council of the John Birch Society...
...created four deanships under his direction to handle four specific areas of concern--finance and business, students and alumni, academic programs, and medical services. Ebert's administrative set-up had less structure; when he retired after 12 years as dean, the school's administration had more informal lines of command...