Word: yasser
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...Yasser, the party's over. President Clinton turned on the lights Friday in a bid to halt Chairman Arafat's reveling in resurgent support following his refusal during the Camp David talks to back down on Jerusalem. After all, the Palestinian leader now has to come up with an alternative, and President Clinton issued a sharp warning Friday against Arafat's carrying out his vow to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. "If it happens, there will inevitably be consequences not just here but throughout the world," Mr. Clinton told an Israeli interviewer. "I mean that things will happen." Indeed, Washington...
...Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak scuffled jokingly 15 days ago so as to be the last one into Camp David for peace talks; on Tuesday they were jockeying to be the first to leave amid what appears to have been an acrimonious breakdown. Each man ordered up his motorcade as the parties parted company with only a vague promise to keep talking. And while Barak and Arafat take home the consolation prize of having shored up domestic political support by resisting pressure to compromise, President Clinton is left to contemplate a somewhat threadbare foreign policy trophy cabinet...
...Jewish remark in 1974, on the night Bill lost his first campaign. His main source for the story has been interviewed by several other biographers, none of whom reports such a slur. Hillary dismisses the tale. But she has sown suspicion among some Jews by kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat and voicing support for Palestinian statehood. The story has already spurred tabloid headlines in New York. Now Rudy has a chance to express his empathy for Hillary...
...enacting a scene from Oz b) insisting the other go first c) testing the new Tickle Me Yasser d) imitating a wrestling match between the Iron Sheik and Goldberg...
...geopolitical present tense (or tense present), and the Holy City appeared to be all that stood between the secular, terrestrial powers represented by Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and an agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed...