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Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, seemed to be everywhere, showing up at the city's Islamic Hospital to console victims, inspecting loyalist redoubts, embracing fellow refugees as if the end had come. Sometimes it almost did: 90 seconds after an Arafat visit in the district of...
Arafat enjoyed one advantage: if fighting spreads, the powerful militia of the Islamic Unification Movement, which controls parts of the city, has vowed to come to his aid. Both sides, however, gave their word to spare Tripoli. Arafat apparently promised not to shell rebel positions from within the city, thus...
Even in the best of times, P.L.O. unity was something of a mirage. Arafat's achievement was to weld disparate and frequently feuding factions running the gamut from right to left, Islamic to Marxist, into a cohesive force. But a showdown became inevitable after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
The Israeli calamity in Tyre came at a time when the Reagan Administration was re-examining its relationship with Israel in Lebanon. For much of the past year, the U.S. has pressed Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, but only at such time as Syria and the P.L.O. would...
Rushdie has clearly read Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Milan Kundera. Extravagant mythmaking alternates with passages of first-person political candor ("May I interpose a few words here on the subject of the Islamic revival?"). But his literary accomplishments are uniquely his own. A Westerner by adoption and choice, looking back...