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Show The Salt Late Tribune November 27. 1983 A5 Sunday, (j Theres More To Swap' Than Evident O-- -'m r S .V , rps By G. Jefferson Price III The Baltimore Sun JERUSALEM The price Israel paid Thursday to obtain the freedom of six of its soldiers from their Palestinian captors cannot be measured alone in the vast difference in numbers between the six Israelis and the 4 400 Palestinians and suspected Lebanese terrorists who were released m exchange. That cost accompanied by the inevitability that hundreds, if not thousands, of the freed Palestinians and Lebanese will return to their careers as fighting men would seem to have been sufficiently exorbitant. ) ox --- v V X 1h ft i fyz J Al? Aj P ' tf fJvG But there is more. For in Thursday's dramatic exchange, the Israelis provided Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat a remarkable opportunity to rescue himself politically from the debacle he faced in Tripoli, Lebanon, if indeed he is now permitted to escape that embattled city with his Interest accrues during this time at 21 life. i a ifr i A day before the exchange, it appeared that Arafats career was in a shambles and that the organization he had built would be destroyed, the Syrian-backe- d rebels in his own organization finishing a job begun by the Israelis when they laid siege to the PLO in beirut in 1982, forcing the Palestinians to leave tne city. Old Supporters .The PLO chairman had his old stalwart supporters, to be sure: The Saudis who want stability in the Middle East and view him as a man with whom they can deal; the Russians, who supported him for many of same reasons; the Jordanians who perceived in his latest humiliation an opportunity to accept Arafat back in Amman on their own terms rather than those dictated by extremists in the PLO and the hardline states supporting those extrem- RCKtli 19 COLOR TVS VIDEO SYSTEM Vlauai aaarch, Zoom Lana Camara with racordar with 1 ramota with alactronic vlawftndar. 6i .. i &&& 4 M JwtWkl-i- TOSHIBA 1 VENT VCR WITH REMOTE & SPECIAL EFFECTS 4 4 QQ COflPLtTFPdl'&BLE Your Choice DELUXE 13 COLOR TV s379 Fsstutss tutomstic ffna tuning, onbutton suto color. 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The widespread demonstrations on his behalf by Palestinian activists among the 1 3 million Arabs living in the territories on the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza have indicated that much. legitimacy Claim The question is, as it has always been, precisely what claim to legitimacy he would bring with him out of Tripoli in order to sustain his right to continue speaking on behalf of the Palestinian cause. . That claim to legitimacy is what i, the Israelis gave him Thursday. The exchange of prisoners gave Arafat the political ammunition he needs to demonstrate to the Arabs in general and the Palestinian people t m particular that the road of relative moderation on which he has embarked is worth more than all the strident militancy of those trying to destroy him m Tripoli. For he has managed to achieve through negotiation what no Arab leader could have believed possible 24 hours earlier The release of more than 4,000 of their comrades from Israeli captivity, including some of the most .radical criminals convict- ed of terrorist acts in Israel and imprisoned for life. If Arhfat leaves Tripoli alive, and there is reason to believe that the Israelis have agreed to allow him to do the pathetic character who has looked for the last several weeks as if he would come out of he place without much clout, may be embold-- t ened by this latest victory. Two Questions c ? Two questions arise now that Israel has made this extraordinary contribution to Arafats political survival. One is whether Arafat wdl seize the opportunity to save more than his own political skin by endorsing a bold initiative, perhaps wr-King HuSseinof Jordan, to enable negotiations to begin over the futu-- e of the West Bank and Gaza. 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Will this achievement coming in the wake of the pummeling he has taken in Tripoli from his own dissidents and their Syrian and Libyan supporters give him the courage to move further on the path toward r has peace with Israel than he before? The second question is whe' her Israel. having reluctantly given the PLO leader this opportunity, will be able and willing to modify its own positions sufficiently for a genuine dialogue to begin The answers to those two questions will reveal whether the price Isr&el paid to save the lives of six of its young men in Tripoli wa? worth it and whether, finally, the more L- - banon vtfRjn 500 Israeli lives lost in a 1982 represent worthy sacri- sime WAME.B RAUn Ssllr Choc isac fa po 01u'n2!i SOb rsL r m? q m J SCUTARI PHONE cord. Wall holster. e,-e- f ; $2$. ists. Israeli-occupie- A.P.R. GTE bEStif ROTARY PHONE Module plug Fsctory rsnswsd 14-t- t. 62-10- 5 C3 mrm W PIECE PHONE Lest number radial. Wall holster. 1 -- SALT LAKE 675 8. 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