The World - News from Nov. 18, 1985
A senior aide to Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat expressed the belief that Syria will attempt to destroy a Jordanian-PLO accord for Middle East peace. Arafat has welcomed last week’s rapprochement between old foes Jordan and Syria, but Abu Iyad, deputy leader of Arafat’s Fatah faction, told reporters in Amman, Jordan, that despite the Jordanian-Syrian thaw, “Syria will still try to destroy the special Jordan-PLO relationship.” Meanwhile, members of parliaments from 12 Arab nations ended a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, by warning the United States that it must adopt a balanced stance toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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