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PLO Gains Militarily,
While Losing Politically

Arafat's police will have U.S. equipment, but the
support of many Palestinians is far from assured.

DOUGLAS DAVIS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

AT IARON APPELFELD

Internationally Renowned Israeli Author
speaking on

L

ast week, a group of mid-
dle-aged Americans in
neat blue business suits
made their way through
the Cairo throng to a grubby
apartment block on Moudiriy-
at el-Tahrir Street.
There, on the second floor of
the building, they were ushered
into the office of businessman
and small-time publisher Nabil

tonomous Gaza and Jericho,
and as the Israeli-Palestinian
talks on implementing the Sep-
tember 13 Declaration of Prin-
ciples resumed in Cairo this
week, the fruits of the visit were
divulged.
The Americans had arrived
with a sweetener. Washington,
the delegates announced, had
already agreed to provide PLO

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Mr. Appelfeld is the author of eleven books which include Badenheim, 1939, Tzili:
The Story of a Life, and To The Land Of Cattails. His most recent works are Unto The
Soul and Beyond Despair: Three Lectures and a Conversation with Philip Roth.

"No one surpasses Aharon Appelfeld in portraying the crisis of European civilization
both before and after the Second World War. He's one of the best novelists alive."
— Irving Howe

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Sha'ath, who is also the Cairo
representative of the Palestine
Liberation Organization and
the PLO's chief negotiator with
Israel.
Another small piece of histo-
ry had been made: the first of-
ficial visit to the PLO by a joint
delegation from the United
States Departments of Defense
and State.
The delegation was intended
to assess the military needs of
the Palestinian police in au-

police commander General Ab-
del Razzak al-Yahyia with al-
most 200 military vehicles. In
addition to several dozen Russ-
ian armored vehicles the Pales-
tinians were planning to
purchase, they can now also
count on U.S.-made pick-up
trucks and 2.5-ton Blazer jeeps
for their joint patrols with Is-
raeli security forces in the Gaza
Strip.
The impression at least some
of the U.S. delegates carried

