Arafat

Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat, center, addresses his officers at a farewell gathering in West Beirut, Lebanon, in the early hours of Saturday morning, Aug. 21, 1982. Hours later, the first batch of PLO fighters were sailing for Cyprus, from where they will catch planes to various Arab States to make their new homes. (AP Photo/Mourad Abdel Raouf)