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- <text id=91TT2207>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: World Notes:Palestinians
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- PALESTINIANS
- No Joy in Algiers
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Even the most fiery hard-liners attending the five-day
- meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers last week
- spoke with gloomy resignation. "There is a new reality--international, regional and Palestinian," said Farouk Kaddoumi,
- the Palestine Liberation Organization's foreign minister. That
- reality, most of the delegates agreed, is one in which the
- Palestinian people can no longer look either to Moscow or to
- Arab states for strong political and financial support.
- </p>
- <p> Thus, forced to alter their strategy, the conferees
- reluctantly but overwhelmingly decided to support the Middle
- East peace conference that is being orchestrated by the Bush
- Administration. The P.L.O. leadership also accepted the notion
- of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. But as always, it
- left a few loopholes for further negotiation.
- </p>
- <p> Nonetheless, the conference results brighten the prospects
- for an October peace conference. But the Palestinians were not
- celebrating. A frustrated Yasser Arafat called his job as P.L.O.
- chief "a catastrophe" and dramatically pleaded to step down.
- Said Yasser Abd Rabbo of the P.L.O. executive committee: "We are
- between the options of suicide and suicide."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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