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Mr Arafat’s social visit

NZPA-AP Moscow Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, toured the Olympic Village on Sunday. He met several athletes as he went through the residential area of the complex, which is offlimits to most people. The now-disbanded Black September group, terror arm of Arafat’s Al Fatah guerrilla organisation, staged the massacre at the Munich Games in 1972.

The Al Fatah has not carried out any terror attacks abroad since then, and the P.L.O. has condemned terror acts of Palestinians outside Israel and Israel-occupied Arab land.

The Israelis have boycotted the Moscow Games. It was not known how long Mr Arafat, who arrived in Moscow on Saturday would stay in the Soviet capital.

Sources in Beirut have said that he is in Moscow at the invitation of the Kremlin. The Soviet newsagency, T.A.S., in reporting the P.L.O. chief’s arrival, said that he had come for the Olympics. While at the Olympic village, Mr Arafat was seen touring shops, restaurants, and a training gym. Dressed in his traditional olive-drab fatigues and headdress, he was seen embracing Arab and African athletes, and posing for photographs with Yugoslav wrestlers and judoka.

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Press, 22 July 1980, Page 23

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Mr Arafat’s social visit Press, 22 July 1980, Page 23

Mr Arafat’s social visit Press, 22 July 1980, Page 23