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...Dear Editor PLO International Ray Alan's fair-minded critique of the PLO ("Terrorism and the Palestinians," NL, April 7) tended to minimize the international dimension of the organization's operations...

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...policy, only about half of Europe is observing the Olympics boycott, and economic sanctions against the USSR have been a frustrated hassle...

...is increasingly unable to take unilateral action on global issues, Western Europe refuses more than ever before to cooperate with Washington...

...No one in the U.S...

...dian mass with a Spanish-educated bourgeoisie...

...In the early 1970s, Cuban instructors appeared in Palestinian camps which were then opened to Latin-American trainees...

...True, he cited the plot to murder businessman Max Mazin, a Spanish Jew, but the PLO is involved in more than isolated bits of violence to dramatize its desire for an independent Middle East state...

...Much of the fault for the United States' inability to successfully respond to world crises lies squarely with Europe and Japan...

...PLO agents also are known to have smuggled Sam-7 missiles and other weapons into Italy from Beirut in the last few months...

...After stalling for several weeks on economic sanctions against Khomeini's regime, the Allies finally accepted a watered-down version of the U.S.-requested trade embargo, and that was further weakened by Great Britain...

...Two of the Sam-7 missiles were captured by the Italian police soon after being landed from a small Syrian-manned ship...

...In Italy, for example, the authorities have learned from captured Red Brigade terrorists that a PLO offshoot armed and helped the thugs who murdered Christian Democratic leader Aldo Moro two years ago...

...To be sure, Washington's record on the international scene of late has been uneven at best...

...London Nigel Wickert U.S...

...But while the U.S...

...In Spain, authorities announced last March??soon after Yasir Arafat paid an official visit and was warmly welcomed by Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez ??that they had captured several terrorists of the Basque separatist organization ETA who had been trained in PLO camps in South Lebanon during the winter...

...Finally, an Arab diplomat told a European colleague recently that Left-wing Arab extremists are "especially interested" in Mexico??partly because they hope to keep it in line if the oil screw on the West is tightened, partly for its own sake as a possible source of revolutionary funds, "an American Kuwait that could be pressured into subsidizing the activist Left...

...and Europe," NL, June 2), that is a lesson still to be learned even by the British...

...France adopted a conciliatory attitude toward the Soviets in direct opposition to U.S...

...In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter urged the imposition of economic sanctions and a boycott of the Moscow Olympics...

...And what was the Allies' response...

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...PLO cooperation with Cuban Intelligence and subversion services has been close since 1969, when Cuban and Palestinian activists attended courses together at Simferopol, in the Crimea, and near Moscow...

...It is too easy to blame the U.S...

...The diplomat added: "Mexico is very vulnerable in the eyes of our Left, who consider Mexican society a colonial set-up, a vast and impoverished InThe New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...

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...It considers itself an instrument of revolution in Western Europe and Central America as well??a fact its new-found sponsors in the European Economic Community seem determined to learn the hard way...

...Two recent crises demonstrate the point...

...Judging from Norman Gelb's account of Great Britain's un-happiness with the Carter Administration's foreign policy ("Britain Between the U.S...

...leadership is not simply a matter of providing direction, but of having a rank-and-file willing to accept direction...

...How close to home will the PLO and its cohorts have to strike before Europeans and others understand why Israel is so suspicious of an independent Palestinian state on its borders that is dominated by Arafat...

...The detained men revealed that Central American terrorists and members of an American Indian party were being trained there as well...

...Leadership To be a successful leader, one requires some reasonably sympathetic followers...

...If they desire leadership, they must be willing to go along with American initiatives, even where this involves some sacrifice...

...for all of the Western Alliance's problems...

...The situation with respect to the hostages in Iran more glaringly points up Europe's reluctance to support the U.S...

...is benefiting from the grain and technology embargo against the USSR...