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...beginning to have sympathy for the P.L.O. under the leadership of Yasser Arafat. Now I learn that its members are killing one another [Nov. 28] because Arafat is not radical enough for the dissidents. The Israelis are right after...
...apprehended, and as usual, the list of suspects was endless. Next day a terrorist bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis and wounding 45 others. For this senseless slaughter, two warring branches of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the mainstream group led by Chairman Yasser Arafat, claimed responsibility. A day later, Arafat's group admitted making the attack but said it had made a mistake and hit the wrong bus. The recantation came too late. Presumably in response to the bus bombing, Israeli missile boats shelled Arafat's redoubt at the northern Lebanese port city...
...among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization had eased pressure on Israel to pursue negotiations toward autonomy for the Palestinians, since there was no one in a position to speak with authority for those West Bank residents. Although King Hussein last week reportedly was willing to renew conversations with Yasser Arafat on whether Jordan should open talks with Israel on the future of the West Bank and Gaza, the P.L.O. leader's besieged position in Tripoli made him seem irrelevant to any negotiations...
...Yasser Arafat, the Houdini of Middle East politics, appeared ready to perform yet another remarkable feat. Last year the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization managed to escape from Beirut with more than 6,000 of his commandos after the Israelis had captured a third of Lebanon and surrounded all of his positions. This year Arafat and his loyalists had held on for three weeks in the vicinity of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli as a vastly larger force of P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman...
...needs are sometimes at variance. For this reason, Israel's President Chaim Herzog, just back from a visit to the U.S. himself, warned his countrymen against having "exaggerated expectations" about Shamir's trip to Washington. And, as the Prime Minister and the President confer, the foes of Yasser Arafat may be learning once again the futility of having exaggerated expectations about the durable P.L.O. leader's demise. -By William E. Smith...