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...expected, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat swiftly denounced Shamir's proposals, calling them "inappropriate, as usual," and many Palestinians in the occupied territories followed suit. In Jerusalem on Friday, the first day of the month-long Ramadan observance, hundreds of Palestinians pouring out of midday prayer services at the al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount launched an angry demonstration, throwing rocks and chanting anti-Israeli and anti- American slogans...
...troops are mired in the unending civil war in Lebanon, where 13 Western hostages are being held. Against his wishes, p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat has recognized Israel's right to exist. The U.S. and Britain chastise him for harboring a Palestinian guerrilla group, some of whose members are leading suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yet Syria's wily President Hafez Assad appeared unruffled and even jovial last week, as he maneuvered through the region's perilous political landscape for three hours in a rare interview with TIME Assistant Managing Editors Karsten Prager and John F. Stacks...
...have criticized Yasser Arafat for pursuing a policy of concessions. But in light of the U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue, hasn't his policy helped the peace process...
Though P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat has become more flexible and wily in his diplomacy, his organization's intransigence nearly matches Shamir's. In his first formal session with the P.L.O. last week, a four-hour meeting in Carthage, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau failed to persuade Arafat's representatives to order a halt to the rock throwing and other violence of the intifadeh. The rebuff, together with continued raids from Lebanese territory, showed that progress toward a settlement is more than a matter of moving Shamir's government...
...grandson of a Shi'ite mullah, Mughniyah trained with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. A high school dropout, he excelled at terrorism; his boldness and quick grasp of explosives and weaponry impressed his commanders. But he fell out with Fatah leaders and in 1982, when Israeli troops invaded Lebanon and occupied his village, Teir Debbe, Mughniyah joined the newly formed and more radical Hizballah (Party of God). He took to wearing religious garb even as he recruited activists and professionals to the Shi'ite cause. He rose quickly to the top of the organization...