PLO chief Yasir Arafat and some 4,000 of his loyalist forces safely evacuate Tripoli aboard Greek ships flying UN flags after weeks of fighting between Arafat loyalists and Syrian-backed PLO dissident forces who oppose Arafat’s leadership.
Arafat meets in Cairo with Mubarak in what the United States describes as an “encouraging development,” infuriating Israel which calls the meeting an “encouragement to terrorism.”
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