Speaking at the Tunis headquarters of the P.L.O. today, Mr. Rabbo said Palestinian representatives will travel to Washington to explain the organization's new position.

At the Tunis headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, officials put the death toll at 63 and the wounded at 270.

According to Shaath, the PLO's offices for foreign affairs, refugees and its relations with Israel and Jewish organisations would stay in its Tunis headquarters.

The meeting at the PLO's Tunis headquarters was also appointing people to head various departments.

A key official at the P.L.O.'s Tunis headquarters has been arrested by the Tunisian authorities on charges of spying for Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization has announced.

"The Americans are telling us to go directly into the substance of self-rule, and we will," said another P.L.O. official at the Tunis headquarters.

The P.L.O. leadership authorized the expanded delegation to Moscow after two days of argument at its Tunis headquarters.

On 1 October 1985, in Operation Wooden Leg, Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed the PLO's Tunis headquarters, killing more than 60 people.

The Israeli cabinet and the Israeli Air Force desired immediate retaliation, and chose the Tunis headquarters of the PLO as their target.

In October 1985, Israeli warplanes bombed the Tunis headquarters, killing dozens, after three Israelis were killed on a yacht moored in Cyprus.