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...Cairo, meanwhile, Abu lyad, second-in-command to Fatah Chief Yasser Arafat, last week conceded that Israel is now so cordoned off from fedayeen attacks by Lebanon, Jordan and the Sinai that direct assaults on "the enemy" are no longer possible. "We know our generation will not reach the sea," he said. Therefore Palestinians must hit Israelis abroad. "We don't have to occupy Tel Aviv to make our point," said lyad. "It's sufficient to keep scoring. We should fight the enemy anywhere in the world because every country bears the guilt for Palestine...
...raid. "Since 1948 we have been in a state of truce with Israel," declared former President Camille Chamoun. "Today we are in a state of war." Premier Saeb Salam, who had long avoided a showdown with the guerrillas, laid down a set of 14 demands to Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat. Their purpose was to hamper any guerrilla movements and prevent further Israeli revenge...
Black September's first leader was Ali Abu Iyad (real name Mohammed Mustafa Shyein), a deputy of Al Fatah Boss Yasser Arafat. Iyad was wounded, captured and executed in July 1971 after a firefight between guerrillas and Hussein's army. But probably the organization's best-known leader was Fuad Shemali, a Lebanese Christian who masterminded some of the group's earlier operations before he died of cancer last month. Shemali left posthumous instructions to the terrorists to concentrate on kidnaping Israelis held in high esteem by Israelis themselves. He mentioned scholars, scientists and athletes...
...Yasser Arafat, head of the overall Palestine Liberation Organization, stayed away for security reasons; P.F.L.P. Boss George Habash, who suffers from a heart condition, was forced to watch from an apartment balcony as the cortege passed. But representatives of all the guerrilla groups in Lebanon and Syria were on hand. A slow-stepping 24-piece commando band in camouflage uniforms wailed Chopin's Funeral March. Thousands of Palestinian refugees, in a half-mile-long procession, trailed the flower-smothered coffin and its gun-bearing honor guard to the fedayeen's "cemetery of martyrs...
...persuade the Lebanese government to control the fedayeen, who have been using the border country of Lebanon as a base for attacks on Israel. In that regard, the Israelis appeared to have achieved some success. Lebanese Premier Saeb Salam last week announced that he and Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat had reached an agreement: in return for being allowed to remain in Lebanon, the fedayeen will "freeze" their attacks on Israel. The fedayeen, unfortunately, have made similar promises-and broken them-in the past; the previous lull lasted only four months...