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...This is anti-Israel festival week," groaned one foreign ministry official in Jerusalem. To a large extent, he was right. At the United Nations last week, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization won a stunning diplomatic victory that came as a sharp defeat for the increasingly isolated and friendless Israelis. In effect, the Security Council virtually recognized the P.L.O. as the government in exile of a potential state equal in international standing to Israel. Over the violent protestations of U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, the Security Council voted 9 to 3 (with three abstentions) to invite representatives...
Previous winners have included Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler, as well as the entire Mars candy company. This year the Public Doublespeak Award of the Illinois-based National Council of Teachers of English went to Yasser Arafat, 46, head of the militant Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat's prizewinning formulation: "We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood...
...nominate Yasser Arafat for Man of the Year because he elucidated the only possible solution for the Middle East: one secular democratic state of Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians can live together peacefully...
...from vegetables to fancy clothes. Suitcases were especially hot items. Traffic was nearly at normal bumper-to-bumper proportions in some areas, though it thinned out early each afternoon, particularly on streets dividing opposing sides. In one remarkable incident, fedayeen of Fatah, on orders from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, brought food and water to some 100 Lebanese Jews who had been trapped in a synagogue that was close to some of the bloodiest street fighting...
Outside Forces. The arrival since 1948 of 320,000 Palestinian refugees has added immeasurably to Christian-Moslem tensions. At first the Palestinians stayed out of the current fighting; Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat continues to call for a peaceful solution. But last week Palestinians from Arafat's Fatah and the Syrian-backed Saiqa were clearly aiding the leftists with arms, equipment and artillery support. Indeed the real strategic commander of the Moslem offensive in Beirut was rumored to be the infamous fedayeen leader Abu Daoud, who nearly succeeded in assassinating Jordan's King Hussein in 1970. Last...