The New York Times · 1 October 1999

CP-1999-005

A Hard-Line Palestinian Returns to the West Bank

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THE NEW YORK TIMEs INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1999 A8 A Hard-Line Palestinian Returns to the West Bank Arafat Trying to Turn Hawks Into Doves of final peace talks with the Israelis. By DEBORAH SONTAG Arafat also recently recon- Mr. JERICHO, West Bank, Sept.

30 - ciled with Nayef Hawatmeh, the 'A leading Palestinian radical, one of leader of another Syrian-based Pal- the few renegades who had remained the Democratic estinian faction, committed struggle to armed Front for the Liberation of Palestine. against Israel, returned home from In his quest, Mr.

Arafat has had Damascus today after 32 years in some unlikely help from President exile. Hafez al-Assad of Syria, a longtime The Palestinian, Mustafa Zubari, Over the summer, personal rival. known as Abu Ali Mustafa, also end- Syria, partly in the interest of renew- ed years of estrangement from Yasir ing its peace talks with Israel, i

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