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Charges of falsified counts, intimidation at the polls and missing ballot boxes have delayed final results of the Palestinian elections, which were intended to set a standard for democracy in the Arab world. P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat, in the race for President of the Palestinian Council, crushed challenger Samiha Khalil with 88% of the valid vote. Preliminary results showed his Fatah organization won about 50 of the 88 parliamentary seats...
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP: Although no one is contesting PLO Chief Yasser Arafat's landslide victory in the first Palestinian elections over the weekend, allegations of widespread cheating in the parliamentary voting are spreading, as charges of manipulated results, disappearing ballot boxes, and intimidation at the polls are being levelled against administrators of the elections. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank: "The cheating will be the big issue. The story is growing by the hour. In Hebron, ballot boxes were missing and then found. One candidate in Gaza was told she won, then told later she lost...
operation was carefully planned and was scheduled, then delayed, at least once, two days beforehand. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, concern rose that Islamic militants would take revenge not only on Israel but also on its partner in peacemaking, the Palestinian Authority headed by Yasser Arafat. An Islamic backlash could hamper the smooth running of the first Palestinian general elections, scheduled...
...YEAR WHEN YASSER ARAFAT, SHIMON Peres and Yitzhak Rabin worked toward peace--and one of them gave his life--when Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic negotiated the end of Bosnia's lengthy and bloody war, when statesmen who represented the fall of the Iron Curtain are losing their power to a communist comeback, when Helmut Kohl is winning an economic bet in the east of Germany, and President Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher are defining a new world order, your choice of House Speaker Gingrich as Man of the Year shows how provincial TIME...
...federal judge has ordered PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to give a deposition in a lawsuit concerning the 1985 slaying of an American aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton gave Arafat until January 12 to give his deposition, and said the PLO could be held liable if he does not cooperate in the suit. A New Jersey travel agency filed the lawsuit, which blames a PLO faction for the 3-day hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly man, whom terrorists threw into the sea off Egypt...