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...from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers and pockmarked buildings in the besieged city, some 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas led by Yasser Arafat fought back with sporadic rounds of artillery and antiaircraft fire...
...Lebanese negotiator said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "is ready to do it"-to leave Beirut Israel radio quoted an unidentified senior Israel government official as saying there was "good hope" an agreement would be worked out soon...
...West Beirut, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat tried to galvanize his beleaguered forces for a last stand. Speaking on the Voice of Palestine radio station in an angry, desperate tone, Arafat vowed to turn Beirut into "the graveyard of the invader and the Stalingrad of the Arabs." Arafat and other top P.L.O. officials spurned calls to surrender their arms in exchange for safe escort out of Beirut. Young guerrillas bulldozed walls of red clay to serve as barricades and cut holes in street pavements to plant mines. Despite the overwhelming odds, Palestinian morale seemed high. Said a P.L.O. major: "We have...
...bold new initiatives from him." Behind the scenes, Fahd has already proved to be a skillful diplomat. After the Israelis launched their drive into Lebanon, Fahd quickly flew to Europe to discuss the situation with President Reagan. Last week, TIME has learned, he conferred with Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat five times by telephone in a single 24-hour period...
...made to a United Nations official in Beirut last week by Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Like Lebanese officials, Arafat was angered by the failure of UNIFIL, the 7,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, to mount more than token resistance to the Israeli invasion. Declared a Western diplomat: null credibility was a bit weak before. Now it has suffered a real blow...