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...life imprisonment last year for the murder of three Israelis aboard a yacht in the port of Larnaca. The convicted trio claimed the Israelis were intelligence agents posing as tourists, a charge that Israel denied. The three were believed to be members of Force 17, the personal bodyguard of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Briton, Ian Michael Davison, 29, was known to have fought in Arafat's P.L.O. force in Lebanon in 1982. So the most likely theory was that last week's hijackers, though they carried passports from Bahrain, were members of Arafat's Fatah...
India's Rajiv Gandhi was there, and so were Cuba's Fidel Castro, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and some 50 heads of state. The occasion was the eighth Summit Conference of the Nonaligned, a group now made up of 101 nations that was formed 25 years ago by leaders of the postwar independence movement: Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkrumah of Ghana and Nasser of Egypt. Its members claim to be neutrals in the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but its triennial meeting last week in Harare...
...timing of the aborted terrorist raid came as no surprise. Only three days before, Jordan's King Hussein abruptly closed 25 offices of Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the capital city of Amman. The terrorist operation was a clear reminder of the P.L.O.'s determination to continue its struggle against Israel in spite of the stinging blow from Hussein. Said an Israeli official: "The P.L.O. wants to demonstrate that it's still powerful in the West Bank and that peace cannot be achieved without...
Molqi, Abdelatif and two other defendants responded to the verdict by shouting in Arabic, "Long live Palestine!" "Long live Italian justice!" and "Long live [PLO Chairman Yasser] Arafat!" A courtroom interpreter translated their shouts...
Another source of concern is the stalemated effort to reach a Middle East peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Fahd remains a staunch backer of Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole spokesmen for the Palestinian people. Despite the collapse of oil prices, the Saudis continue to provide hefty financial support to several other Arab states and the P.L.O. At their meeting last week, the King and Vice President Bush agreed on the need for stability in the region, but they differed on how to promote an Arab-Israeli peace...