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<text id=91TT2207>
<title>
Oct. 07, 1991: World Notes:Palestinians
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 37
World Notes
PALESTINIANS
No Joy in Algiers
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<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."
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