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...Reagan could not say he has no anwer to his proposal for a Middle East settlement." That was the way a top political adviser to Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ex plained the significance of a diplomatic arrangement worked out last week between the P.L.O. and Jordan. The agreement, hammered out in committee meetings chaired by Arafat and Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran, pledges "joint political moves at all levels" and calls for "a special and distinctive relationship" between Jordan and a "liberated Palestine" to be created out of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...Yasser Arafat, commander of the heroes who defended Beirut...
...very nature of the organization has changed. Except in parts of Lebanon, such as the Bekaa, where they still undertake occasional commando attacks against the Israelis, the P.L.O. fighters have been neutralized, and even in the Bekaa they operate under restrictions imposed by the Syrian army. Though Chairman Yasser Arafat rarely visits it, his only headquarters today is an isolated resort hotel in Borj Cedria, Tunisia, 15 miles from the capital of Tunis and almost 2,000 miles from the Palestinian homeland...
...government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the week's best news came, ironically, from Damascus, where leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization strongly criticized President Reagan's Middle East peace plan. Though P.L.O. moderates, including Chairman Yasser Arafat, saw some merit in the plan, which calls for Palestinian self-rule of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan, hard-liners strongly opposed it because it does not provide for an independent Palestinian state. The P.L.O.'s attack on the Reagan plan was fine with Begin, who has denounced it ever since it was offered...
Among the reasons for Washington's current state of gloom, the most important is the feeling that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin will never budge in his determination to hold on to the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Beyond that, U.S. officials are worried that Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, may not be in a strong enough position within the P.L.O. to enter into any peace negotiations now. Finally, the U.S. has decided that although such moderate Arab states as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan would like to take advantage of the Reagan initiative, they seem...