The world - news from june 2, 1989

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Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat has ordered the formation of a 3,500-member Palestinian army in southern Lebanon, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported. The force--each


member must first be approved by Arafat--is to become “the core of a regular army of an independent Palestine of the future,” the London-based military affairs magazine said. It would


replace “the existing chaos of assorted unruly militias, most of them affiliated with Arab countries and not always friendly to Arafat,” Jane’s said. MORE TO READ