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JERUSALEM--The Foreign Ministry early today declined comment, but an official said Israel had no advance warning of the U.S. decision to open a dialogue with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization...
GENEVA--PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday offered a three-point peace plan calling for negotiations with Israel at an international peace conference and U.N. supervision of Israeli-occupied territories...
...making American diplomacy seem reactive, unimaginative, even recalcitrant. Mired in "old thinking," the U.S. has been on the defensive at the U.N. of late, especially in the wake of Secretary of State George Shultz's refusal to grant a visa that would have permitted Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to address the world body at its headquarters on the East River...
WORLD: By a resounding vote, the U. N. deplores Washington' s decision to deny a visa to Yasser Arafat...
...past year, Yasser Arafat has been able to solidify his leadership among those involved in the intifadeh as well as among Palestinians in exile. As a result, the P.L.O. is established more firmly than ever as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. Israel can no longer reasonably hope that a group of West Bank or Gaza leaders unaffiliated with the P.L.O. will emerge...