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Nation was apparently indicated by the announcement in Beirut on 24 August of a truce between the PLO leadership and the breakaway group of Abu Nidal, close collaborators with the Iraqi regime.
This truce was arranged through the good offices of the Algerian government and its ambassador in the Lebanon, Muhamad Yazid.
It is to be hoped brought to an end the seri es of deaths which began last Jar ¡uary with the shooting of the P LO's London representative, Said Hammami.
Unity
The truce also comes during week of many discussions about 'unity' within the Palestinian movement.
Yasser Arafat's Fatah organisation has been talking about closer links with the rejectionist forces outside the PLO for some years now, particularly with the largest of them, George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The issue of a joint declaration between these two bodies has been part of discussions about the reorganisation of the Palestinian movement to give less weight to Fatah in the 55man central council which runs the Palestinian 'parliament in exile'-the Palestine National Speaking in Damascus on 18 ECKIH ANN Aret in theis hands.
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