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Within six minutes, the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization had been reduced to a pile of twisted steel and crumpled concrete. A two-story administration building and a house used by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were demolished. Arafat was out of the area at the time, having long ago demonstrated that he has nine lives. But at least 60 Palestinians and Tunisians were killed in the attack, and more than 100 were injured. Among the dead were several of Arafat's bodyguards...
...terrorism "because according to reliable reports a number of terrorist organizations have received some form of support" from Damascus. Furthermore, there is no sign that Assad has wavered in his firm opposition to a peace initiative put forward by Jordan's King Hussein and Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, which calls for direct negotiations with Israel. Assad is unhappy that Hussein and Arafat are acting without Damascus' consent. The Syrian President also insists that any settlement between Israel and its neighbors must come from an international conference involving all front-line Arab states, the Soviet Union...
...seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser Arafat would not assist beleaguered Arafat followers in the camps. Accordingly, Berri ordered 5,000 of his militiamen, aided by a predominantly Shi'ite brigade of the Lebanese Army, to storm the Palestinian strongholds. To his surprise, the Palestinians in the camps, supported by some of the anti- Arafat factions, not only held their ground...
...stepped out into the Rose Garden for an impromptu press conference. The President wished Hussein well in his search for a Middle East peace settlement. The King responded with words that amounted more to a policy statement than a formal farewell. As the result of his recent talks with Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein declared, "we are willing to negotiate, within the context of an international conference, a peaceful settlement on the basis of the pertinent United Nations resolutions, including 242 and 338." He added: "We are offering a unique opportunity for peace which...
Amal militiamen invaded three refugee camps south of Beirut expecting an easy victory, but they ran into fierce resistance. After several days of combat, an estimated 350 people had been killed and nearly 1,600 wounded. Amal Leader Nabih Berri asserted that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat had provoked the clashes in order to stage a "theatrical return to the south, something we will not permit." In Jordan, where he had been meeting with King Hussein, Arafat called for an end to the battle, which he blamed on his enemies the Syrians...