PLO

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  PLO
       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: {Palestine Liberation
           Organization}]