The World - News from Sept. 9, 1985
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said his group stands by the “peace for land” formula in its dealings with Israel and the United States. The formula was included in a PLO-Jordanian peace initiative announced earlier this year. It also forms the basis of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, in which Israel would receive security guarantees in exchange for returning land it seized in the 1967 war.
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