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 Palestine Liberation Organization
      n : a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort
          to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed
          in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by
          Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman;
          received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab
          states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a
          largely political role since the creation of the
          Palestine National Authority [syn: PLO]