The World - News from Aug. 27, 1985
A Palestinian nationalist who has been under house arrest since 1982 agreed to leave the Israeli-occupied West Bank for three years in return for the rescinding of a deportation order, his lawyer said. Halil abu Ziad, 40, was the first West Bank resident in five years to have faced expulsion under a tough new anti-guerrilla policy adopted after the murders of several Jews. Military officials described Abu Ziad, who completed a 10-year jail term in 1980, as a senior Palestine Liberation Organization leader.
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