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...refugee camps of Bourj el Brajneh and Sabra. The P.L.O., in a retaliatory strike of its own, fired scores of Soviet-made Katyusha rockets and long-range artillery shells at towns and settlements in northern Israel. Israeli gunners responded in border duels that continued throughout the night. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declared that his guerrilla forces would teach Jerusalem a "lesson." Israeli Economic Minister Ya'acov Meridor vowed that his country would "liquidate the sources of the shooting...
Despite widespread fears that the P.L.O. would automatically retaliate for any kind of Israeli attack, the Palestinians said in the days after the Israeli bombing that they would continue to observe the ceasefire. This was an indication that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat still believes that his organization has more to gain by avoiding open fighting and by putting the Israelis in the position of appearing tc be the aggressors...
Begin would keep its word. For weeks, in addition, there had been reports that the Israeli armed forces, spurred on by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, were ready to launch a large-scale strike against Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, fully expecting an Israeli assault, was exerting all his influence to prevent some of the more radical Palestinian factions from launching their own attack across the Lebanese-Israeli border. In an effort to head off an Israeli strike and hold the Israelis to their promise of withdrawing from the Sinai by the scheduled date...
According to the U.S. State Department, Handal has close links with the Soviet Union and Cuba, and often travels to both countries, as well as to other East bloc members. He also has ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in particular to its leader, Yasser Arafat. Handal has been active in the purchase of arms for the Salvadoran guerrillas. Richard Araujo, a Latin American expert at the Heritage Foundation, says of Handal: "He'd like to be the Latin American Arafat...
...Yasser Arafat claims a Palestinian state would be "very democratic, liberal, nonaligned" [Feb. 8]-just like the states supporting him now: democratic Iraq, liberal Iran, nonaligned Cuba...