Radical Palestinian leaders based in Damascus blasted the U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian summit being held in Oslo. George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Nayef Hawatmeh, head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestinian, said Palestinian aspirations would be given short shrift at the summit.
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