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Mideast insiders fear disaster as Yasser Arafat collapses again (TIME Daily...
...University must make it clear that is disapproves of any murderous regime--including Jiang's. If Jiang comes to Harvard, University administrators should not allow him to avoid the question and answer period everyone from Yasser Arafat to Mel Gibson has agreed to. Students, faculty and community members alike should fell comfortable in expressing their dissent. In addition, leaders of the Tiananmen Square protest who live in the Boston area should be invited to speak in as prominent a place and be equally if not more warmly welcomed by none less than those who welcome Jiang. In addition, Harvard should...
Your report on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's mission to the Middle East [WORLD, Sept. 15] missed the central point. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has no choice but to re-embrace Hamas, the group responsible for the Ben Yehuda bombing, and other firebrands, because his life is at stake. The Palestinian populace has rejected him and his inept internal policies. Arafat was once a hero to the average Palestinian, but no longer. Lacking ballots, the frustrated populace may resort to bullets. Arafat knows this, and his reaction has been to sacrifice everything the Palestinian movement has achieved to save...
...didn't he--faint, that is? That was the question surrounding YASSER ARAFAT last week after an Egyptian official leaked word that the Palestinian leader had passed out during a contretemps with the Foreign Minister of Qatar while in Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest...
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to ride out the crisis sparked by Mossad's botched assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan. Hamas itself is buoyant. The real loser from the incident appears to be Yasser Arafat. As the hapless Mossad hit men returned home Monday, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin ? released as part of the same deal ? was welcomed in Gaza by tens of thousands of Palestinians. Arafat now has either to seek coexistence with Hamas ? and earn the ire of Israel and the U.S.? or to confront an adversary growing in power and influence. ?Arafat?s room for maneuver...