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...ARCO Forum at the Institute of Politics is often the magnet for world leaders and controversial figures. Yasser Arafat, who will speak at the Forum today, fits into both of these categories. While he is recognized for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, many still focus on Arafat's past links to terrorism...
Tonight's speech by Yasser Arafat at the Institute of Politics will be a momentous event. It is Arafat's first speech at an American university and it comes at a fragile moment in the Middle East peace process. Last month, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed peace accords that will give Arafat responsibility for significant portions of the West Bank...
...staff's attempt to pre-empt a possible Jewish protest against Yasser Arafat is wholly uncalled for. Was there any staff criticism of black students' interruption of Charles A. Murray '65's Bell Curve lecture, either before or after the fact? Or of the disruptions of antiabortion activists during presidential candidate Arlen Specter's political address last spring...
...Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority [PNA], is scheduled to speak at the Kennedy School of Government next Tuesday, the school announced yesterday...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, meeting at the White House, agreed to extend Palestinian rule to almost a third of the West Bank, providing for Palestinian elections and laying the foundation for what could become a Palestinian state. The two leaders signed an intricately worded 400-page document that outlines the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from territory seized in the 1967 Six-Day War and transfers governing authority to Palestinians for most of their population in the West Bank. A last-minute dispute over the timing of Israeli troops' withdrawal from Hebron was resolved...