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...P.L.O. has also made what it stressed was a request, not a demand, that some 1,000 of its 6,000 guerrillas in West Beirut be permitted to move to Tripoli rather than go to Syria. The reason: alS though most of the guerrillas in Beirut came from countries to which they may be repatriated, about 1,000 were born in Lebanon or have no proper papers and thus know no other home. Arafat would like a temporary haven for these forces in Lebanon until a permanent one can be found. The P.L.O. also wants guarantees for the safety...
With everything seemingly under control, the hijackers planted sticks of explosives in the toilet compartment, then benignly granted the request of the steward that he be allowed to take the copilot back to the second cabin and treat his minor wounds. That was a mistake. As the pilot, unknown to the rebels, began to circle over Shanghai, the copilot and steward started to plot in whispers with nearby Chinese passengers. The plane continued to circle for 2½ hr., until it was so low on fuel that the air conditioning went off and the pilot cut two of the engines...
...clerics and foreign representatives travel to Khomeini's modest home in Jamaran, a village north of Tehran. Some have been summoned to brief the Ayatullah on everything from logistic problems on the Iraqi front to statistics on mosque attendance. Others who wish to see Khomeini must submit a request through a cleric who acts as an appointments secretary; Khomeini receives only a small proportion of those seeking an audience. Sometimes he will make an appearance at the mosque adjacent to his house. There...
...reconsider his refusal to accept the Palestinians. But Assad flatly turned Reagan down, stressing that Habib's prime mission should be not the evacuation of P.L.O. guerrillas but the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. In any event, the Syrians insisted, the P.L.O. leadership had made no formal request for sanctuary in Syria. Nonetheless, Arafat admitted in Beirut that a proposal for Syria to take in Palestinian fighters was "under discussion" and that he was interested in such a move because "my main headquarters is still in Syria, and we have our camps and military bases there...
Since Secretary of State Alexander Haig's resignation, Reagan and National Security Adviser William Clark have come to rely more heavily on Habib's guidance. The President's decision to approve the principle of deploying U.S. troops in Lebanon came in response to Habib's request for authority to use the proposal as a bargaining tool. The special envoy has been equally assertive with the various Middle East factions. It was he who forced the Israelis to withdraw their tanks from the presidential palace in Baabda...