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]