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...second hand. The reader returns from a month's vacation to find Jordan's King Hussein still fretting over whether to negotiate with the Israelis, playing a game of pull me forward--no, pull me back. The reader could be away for two years and return to find Yasser Arafat still debating whether to accept U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 and thus "implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist." Editors could save a forest of newsprint by printing only actual developments, manfully resisting a dogged repetition of what is already too familiar about the situation, including what is unpredictable. Journalists...
Near dawn on Jan. 30, explosions rocked the Rodriguez Shipyards at Messina, Sicily. When the smoke cleared, two Palestinian-owned hydrofoil ferries were at the bottom of the harbor. Because the operator of the hydrofoils is known to be a supporter of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, police at first theorized that the sabotage was the work of an anti-Arafat group. No such luck. Israeli undercover agents made it known last week that they were responsible for the blasts...
AMMAN, Jordan--King Hussein said yesterday he has ended a year-long effort to work jointly with Yasser Arafat toward peace with Israel because the PLO did not meet its commitments...
More than 20 hard-line organizations opposed to Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization took part. The PLO was not invited, and Nayef Hawatmeh's Moscow-oriented Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine did not attend...
...Jordanian capital of Amman, two days of closed-door discussions between supposed peace partners yielded far more ambiguous conclusions. At their first meeting since the Achille Lauro hijacking, King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, hammered out at least a temporary continuance of their Feb. 11 agreement to reach a negotiated settlement with Israel. The two thereby blunted Israeli hopes that the P.L.O. might be squeezed out of the peace negotiations...