LEBANON: SECRETARY-GENERAL OF POPULAR FRONT FOR LIBERATION OF PALESTINE, DR. GEORGE HABASH, TALKS TO NEWSMEN AFTER FRONT CONFERENCE NEAR BEIRUT.

Record ID: 223075

  • Title: LEBANON: SECRETARY-GENERAL OF POPULAR FRONT FOR LIBERATION OF PALESTINE, DR. GEORGE HABASH, TALKS TO NEWSMEN AFTER FRONT CONFERENCE NEAR BEIRUT.
  • Date: 15th March 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT Building in Chatila Camp 0.11 2. SV People looking in window 0.15 3. CU INT People stand around walls 0.17 4. SCU Habash speaking in Arabic (3 shots) 1.23 Initials BB/1730 DME/MR/BB/1800 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th March 1972 13:00
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  • Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVABYD2YN8KSEQBHSUL1RJMJW1OQ
  • Story Text: The third conference held by the Popular Font for the Liberation of Palestine ended this week in Lebanon.

    Afterwards, the Secretary-General, Dr. George Habash, appeared at a news conference to outline the present policy of the movement.

    Among new facts to emerge was a renunciation of airline hi jacking by the Front. Dr. Habash said his organisation had adopted a "no hi-jacking" policy two years ago, because hijackings were misunderstood, even by friends of the Palestine Revolution.

    Dr. Habash also had a warning for those who run in the forthcoming municipal elections in the Israel-occupied West Bank of the Jordan. he said that in the eyes of the Front such people would be regarded as collaborators.

    SYNOPSIS: Near the Lebanese capital, Beirut--the site of the third conference of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. the conference ended earlier this month--and on Tuesday newsmen were invited to hear a statement from he organisation's Secretary-General, Dr. George Habash.

    Dr. Habash told the newsmen that the Popular Front new renounces aircraft hijacking. He said the Front adopted a "no-hijacking" policy two years ago after it found that such actions were misunderstood, even by friends of the Palestine revolution. Dr. Habash said the Front played no part in last month's hijacking of a West German jumbo jet to Aden.

    Dr. Habash had a warning for those who run in the forthcoming municipal election in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. These people, he said, would be regarded by the Popular Front as collaborators. And, he added, they'd be subject to what usually applies to collaborators.

    Dr. Habash concluded by saying that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine believes that the strategy of the long-term popular war of liberation is the only solution to the middle East problem--and, he says, it rejects all plans for a Palestinian state.
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