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Should the dialogue be broken off, the stalled peace process would be no closer to resuming, and extremists in the PLO could be seen as vic- torious. The only casualties of the beach attack were suffered by the Palestinian invaders. But the potential for carnage -among innocent Israeli civilians was immense, which contributed to the shocking nature of the event. The United States needed to make an appropriate re- sponse. Inasmuch as its dialogue with the PLO was condition- ed on Yassir Arafat's widely publicized November 1988 renunciation of terrorism, the United States hoped the PLO leader would deliver an unambiguous condemnation of the beach assault. But Arafat's statement on the attack, carried out by the Palestine Liberation Front, a PLO constituent, had a half-hearted ring in Wash- ington. He refused, more- over, to oust PLF leader Mohammed (Abul) Abbas from the 15-member PLO Executive Committee. Arafat resorted to the technicality that Abbas, no- torious for masterminding the Achille Lauro hijack five years ago, was "democratically" elected to the PLO's executive body by the 400-member Palestine National Council and could only be removed by the so- called parliament in exile. That response left the United States with little room to maneuver. In Washington, U.S. Sec- retary of State James Baker said at a news briefing Fri- day night that he was not satisfied by PLO explana- tions of the attack. "We are not going to be satisfied until we know everything that we need to know," Baker said without elaborating. The first fallout from the beach attack was the U.S. veto on May 31 of a U.N. Security Council resolution to send a fact- finding dele- gation to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Analysts in Israel and in the United States predicted that the U.S. would go fur- ther. But the State Depart- ment's position at the mo- ment is that it is still in- vestigating the cir- cumstances of the terrorist attack. Israel has opposed the U.S.-PLO dialogue from its inception and claims Arafat's renunciation of ter- rorism was a fraud. The government here continues to urge the United States to end the PLO dialogue, and the clamor has been taken up by virtually every Ameri- can Jewish leader and organization. Although both parties would have liked to continue the talks, they now find themselves clinging to posi- tions that could lead to their suspension. The United States insists that it cannot continue the dialogue if the Palestinians resume military operations against Israel. The PLO leadership, on the other hand, is not strong enough politically or in prac- tical terms to enforce a cease- fire on its most militant elements and their leaders. Arafat seems unable or unwilling to accept the American demand to oust Abul Abbas. But by rejecting it, he risks much. Suspension of the dialogue with the United States would mean a political vic- tory for the more radical groups under the PLO um- brella, weakening the Arafat camp and his relatively moderate sup- porters. Arafat, in fact, has little reason to be satisfied with recent political develop- ments. The peace process is stalemated. His main polit- ical achievement, a working relationship with the United States, is coming apart, and even the intifada seems to be leading nowhere. Moreover, in the eyes of the Palestinians, the con- tinued flow of Jewish immi- grants to Israel seems to upset whatever gains their uprising has achieved. The threat posed by the re- cent upsurge of Jewish im- migration was a chief item on the agenda of last week's Arab summit meeting in