WORLD : PLO Chief in Lebanon Shot in Head
Issam Salem, the PLO’s senior official in Lebanon, was shot and gravely wounded today in an ambush in this southern port city, police said.
PLO officials in Paris with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat initially said Salem was killed in the attack. But late in the day, Arafat told reporters he understood that Salem was in a coma in intensive care.
“We must not let ourselves be terrorized by this incident,” Arafat said.
In Sidon, 25 miles south of Beirut, police said Salem was driving along Fakhreddin Street when masked gunmen raked his car with gunfire at 1:05 p.m. “Salem is wounded in the head. His chances of survival are very slim,” a police spokesman said.
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