The World - News from Oct. 19, 1986

All Palestinian military forces have been pulled out of Tunisia, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat was quoted as saying. In an interview with the weekly Cairo magazine October, Arafat said the decision to withdraw followed an Israeli air raid on the PLO’s Tunis headquarters las October. He has said previously that his guerrillas were being relocated in Yemen and Iraq. In the interview, conducted in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, Arafat also blamed pressure from Syria, Israel and the United States for the decision by King Hussein of Jordan in March of last year to break off attempts to negotiate peace with Israel in coordination with Arafat.