World IN BRIEF : MIDEAST : Report of Abu Nidal Purge Is Confirmed
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Palestinian officials confirmed a newspaper report that about 150 guerrillas have been killed in a 14-month power struggle among dissidents of Libyan-backed terrorist Abu Nidal. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the victims included 20 senior officials of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, which Abu Nidal founded in 1973 after he broke from Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization.
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