The World - News from April 2, 1987

Radical Palestinian factions have agreed to reconcile with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and end a four-year split in the guerrilla movement, Palestinian sources in Damascus, Syria, and Nicosia, Cyprus, reported. Libya’s state radio said that leaders of two Palestinian Marxist factions, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, have ended two weeks of talks in Tripoli. Khalil Wazir, a close aide to Arafat, reportedly joined in the talks, and Arafat is expected to meet with the other leaders in Algiers within a week. All Palestinian factions are scheduled to meet soon in Algiers.