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...prove to be a mixed blessing for the fedayeen. Assad has kept the 17,000-man Palestinian forces inside Syria on a tight rein, denying them the freedom enjoyed by guerrillas in Lebanon. Last week Foreign Minister Khaddam, after a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, gave guarantees to Lebanese Christians that the fedayeen would abide by prior (but mostly ignored) agreements to restrict their military activities within Lebanon. Some observers believe that in future negotiations with Israel, Assad might even promise to restrain the fedayeen from launching terrorist raids in exchange for major Israeli concessions...
...Palestine. The most powerful Palestinian leader of the rejection front, Habash repudiates any action-including participating in a conference with the Israelis-that might imply recognition of Israel's right to exist as a state. This stance has led to a break between Habash and the more moderate Yasser Arafat, thus making the P.F.L.P. chief a rallying point for those fedayeen who might grow dissatisfied with Arafat's leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Sipping amber-colored tea in a Palestinian refugee camp, Habash last week explained his views to TIME's Wilton Wynn and Abu Said...
...Would you rule out Yasser Arafat as a member of the Jordan delegation...
Cease-Fire. What made last week's events especially ominous was the entry of massed regular units of the Palestine Liberation Army into the fighting. Until then, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization-the P.L.A. is its military arm-had played a moderating role. But as the P.L.A. troops poured in from neighboring Syria, there were widespread fears of a new and broader war. To prevent such a catastrophe, all sides at midweek agreed to another hastily arranged cease-fire-the 23rd in the past four months. At week's end the truce appeared to be taking...
...Arab drive led by the Syrians to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in the debate with all the privileges of a member state. Thus a Palestinian delegation, led by the P.L.O.'s "Foreign Minister," Farouk Kaddoumi, made the fourth for mal appearance in U.N. proceedings since Yasser Arafat's triumphal arrival at the U.N. the fall of 1974. Also as expected, Israel's Ambassador Chaim Herzog made good on his boycott threat if the P.L.O. was admitted. The U.S. was thus left alone to defend both Israel and its own Middle East policy...