Fatah Hawks, the armed wing of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestinian movement, drive by with their guns poking out of car windows.

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's reported call for holy war to liberate Jerusalem throws into doubt the whole peace process, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned on Tuesday.

The PLO chairman intends to return to the autonomous enclave of Jericho in the first half of June, according to his aides.

As Palestinians and the world await PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's historic arrival in autonomous Jericho in mid-June, the media is already counting the costs of the extravaganza.

The PLO chairman still has to complete his 24-member team, drawing closer to the final makeup Friday with Zohdi Nashshibi, a member of the PLO executive committee, becoming the 20th appointment.

We have the money to pay them in June and we hope that (PLO chairman) Yasser Arafat will come with a budget to cover the rest of the year.

Fatah officially picks former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, already PLO chairman, as its candidate for January's presidential elections.

Arafat was appointed PLO chairman at the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo on 4 February 1969.

According to the Financial Times of Jan. 19, the PLO chairman, Yassir Arafat, had recently threatened to call a PNC meeting and resign if the current peace efforts reached a dead end.

The three-man crew was killed, but the PLO chairman and his 10-member entourage were merely jolted.