But no Israeli politician could have won public approval of the peace proposals unless Mr. Arafat had promised to get rid of the covenant provisions and do it with decent dispatch.

Arafat's Promise Recalled If Mr. Arafat is a man of his word, said Darien Sheff, a new immigrant from the United States, why has he done nothing in three months to keep his promise to seek revocation of the P.L.O. covenant provisions that call for Israel's destruction?