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...Pope's meeting with Yasser Arafat [Sept. 27] may represent the Christian charity of turning the other cheek, but it desecrates the memory of those Christians who were murdered by the P.L.O...
...major test of leadership. The organization's military option has been diminished, if not eliminated, for at least a year or two. As a result, the P.L.O. has become more vulnerable to diplomatic influence from a number of directions, not the least of them the U.S. While Chairman Yasser Arafat and his entourage consider what to do next, there are promising hints of change among Palestinians in the West Bank. Even some of the more radical P.L.O. supporters have reacted favorably to President Reagan's initiative of five weeks ago proposing Palestinian self-government in the West Bank...
...Washington last week. The exact form in which the guarantee was extended is a matter of considerable dispute. P.L.O. Representative Jamal Sourani told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn that the P.L.O. had received the assurance "in writing from Habib." In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asserted, "I have in hand a document" containing the guarantee; he said he had received it as a condition for agreeing to pull the P.L.O. fighters out of Beirut. In a speech in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, Arafat charged, "I was tricked...
...Yasser Arafat can wax poetic about how much the P.L.O. loves peace. But his followers showed their real values in the bloody way they celebrated their "victory": by firing into the air, killing 17 people and wounding more than...
...massacre than took place. In Washington, Ronald Reagan expressed his sense of horror at the murders. Radio Moscow blamed the Israelis and their "Lebanese Christian puppets" for the massacre. Zehdi Labib Terzi, P.L.O. observer at the U.N., denounced what he called the "genocide" in West Beirut, and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, declaring that as many as 1,400 had been slain, appealed for help?including from the Soviet Union?in protecting the lives of Palestinians in Lebanon. The U.S., France and Italy, the three nations that had contributed troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon last month, called...