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...targets "across the world" was later delivered to Beirut newspapers. Qassam was slain by the British during a revolt in Palestine in 1936. His name has frequently been used by terrorist factions linked to Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry Khalil Bana and who officially broke away from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization...
...wing Jewish Defense League, founded by Israeli extremist Meir Kahane, have heckled and picketed King on several occasions recently. A King aide told the media that the organization opposed the candidate's position on Middle East peace talks. King has said such talks should include Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat...
...funeral procession, among mourners with drums and cymbals, fluttered the black, white, green and red flag of the Palestinians. Groups of youths, their faces hidden by kaffiyehs, flashed the V sign. Here and there among the hundreds of black-bordered portraits of the dead man were pictures of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The deceased: Zafer al Masri, 44, the slain mayor of Nablus, who was buried early last week in a highly charged atmosphere of grief and anger...
...unity government, which, in ( a pilot project, had named Masri as the West Bank's only Arab mayor, after three years of military administration ended in the city four months ago. Both Israel and neighboring Jordan strongly condemned the murder, as did a spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, the P.L.O. faction known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting. In Paris, however, a telephone caller to a Western news agency claimed responsibility for the shadowy terrorist organization headed by the notorious Abu Nidal...
More than any other Arab leader apart from the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan has worked for a negotiated settlement of the explosive Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, drained after months of unsuccessful efforts to enlist Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, into the peace process, Hussein announced that he had reached "an end to another chapter in the search for peace...