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...with the Palestine Liberation Organization because they are demanding the West Bank. Let's not forget that Israel is willing to sit with [Jordan's] King Hussein, who is demanding exactly the same thing. The difference is that while Hussein is demanding the West Bank, Yasser Arafat is demanding the whole of Israel as a starting point. He wants the destruction of Israel...
...Little Yasser Colbert of Philadelphia was being given a provocative start in life. "Dear Mr. Arafat," began the handwritten letter to Palestinian Liberation Leader Yasser Arafat in Beirut. "We decided to name our son after you because we were so impressed with your speech at the U.N." Proud Parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colbert even sent along a picture of their chubby baby, which Arafat shared with Beirut newspaper readers last week. Nor did he waste time letting the Colberts know how pleased he was: "I pondered your nice picture," he wrote. "Let me tell you that many children...
...Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat who most recently used the phrase "guns and olive branches" to describe his approach to the Middle East conflict. But Washington appears to be using a strikingly similar concept to keep oil flowing to the West. Even as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last week prepared for another trip to the Middle East to resume his step-by-step discussions on disengagement, U.S. officials, led by President Ford, were talking tough. Their emphasis was not merely on hopes for success by Kissinger but equally, it seemed, on hints of how the U.S. might respond...
...border probes by the Palestinians are designed to keep pressure on Israel as part of a "gun and olive branch" strategy designed by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. The leader of the fedayeen has declared that "1975 will be the year of escalation." Even though Israel so far refuses to recognize the P.L.O., the emphasis is more and more on talk. Arafat and other P.L.O. leaders have somewhat moderated their goal of establishing a secular state in Palestine shared by Moslems, Christians and Jews. The P.L.O. chairman is willing to settle for the more immediate-and more attainable -goal of setting...
Other figures might have been chosen as Man or Woman of the Year. Yasser Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organization to a position of power that has radically changed the circumstances of war and peace in the Middle East. Some might regard Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the Man of the Year for his extraordinary defiance in the Soviet Union and his exile from his homeland. Yet none could match the changes and the problems that the men from the oil powers brought to the world...