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An unknown Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the car-bomb murder of a Palestine Liberation Organization official in Athens.
Oct. 23, 1986
Opinion
An expanded Palestinian government and PLO — including Hamas — must rule Gaza and the West Bank and negotiate to establish a Palestinian state.
Nov. 9, 2023
With so much attention being focused on Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist, almost no one pays much attention to all the nearly forgotten or unknown causes that are directed from the second floor of the Cassion Hotel here.
June 9, 1986
The United Nations, the 159-member body that has provided the Palestine Liberation Organization with one of its most effective international platforms, this week grappled with recent changes in the PLO’s status and took a procedural step Wednesday that could have potentially far-reaching effects.
Jan. 12, 1989
Israel deported eight more Palestinians to Lebanon today, accusing them of taking part in violent protests during an eight-month uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Aug. 1, 1988
Babylon & Beyond
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Sept. 3, 2011
Four months ago in Algiers, Yasser Arafat’s spokesman, Bassam abu Sharif, circulated to the Western press a unique document.
Nov. 22, 1988
The PLO’s parliament in exile opened an urgent meeting here Saturday to work out a declaration of independence for a Palestinian state and heard PLO leader Yasser Arafat appeal to President-elect George Bush to formulate a fresh, more impartial U.S.
Nov. 13, 1988
The Reagan Administration, dismissing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s implicit recognition of Israel as “encouraging . . . but ambiguous,” Wednesday brushed aside Yasser Arafat’s call for Palestinian-American dialogue and a place for the PLO at the Middle East peace table.
Nov. 17, 1988
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.
April 2, 1987