Article: PLO AIDE'S DEATH STRENGTHENS ANTI-ISRAEL FACTIONS, EGYPTIAN ENVOY SAYS

Egypt's ambassador to the United States said yesterday that the assassination of Palestine Liberation Organization official Khalil Wazir had strengthened hard-line Arab factions in the Middle East.

"There has been some kind of shift in the mood in the Arab world," Ambassador Sayed Reedy said, "and the shift is going toward the hard-liners."

Reedy, in Boston in connection with the opening of the Ramesses II exhibit at the Museum of Science, made his comments in a meeting with editors of The Boston Globe.

The recent shooting death of Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, in Tunis by a commando squad may have been designed to scuttle the peace plan of Secretary of State George P. Shultz, ...

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