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...BORN. To YASSER ARAFAT, 65, Palestinian leader, and SUHA ARAFAT, 33; a daughter, Zahwa; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
Thirty years as a revolutionary failed to wear down Yasser Arafat. One year as a pothole fixer has left him exhausted. While a leader in exile, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization maintained an air of triumph through highs and lows, flashing photographers a victory sign and a grin even in his most desperate moments. But now that Arafat is principally a governor and not a fighter, the effervescence has disappeared. On a recent evening, two senior aides found him so troubled by his burdens that he pleaded that they sit with him into the night. They stayed until...
...pompous white military officer speaking in empty and orotund phrases. Then he mimicked a black sergeant talking about the coming war in the Persian Gulf: "We gonna kick butt and go home." Describing an encounter with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at his White House treaty signing with Yasser Arafat, Powell put on a New York Jewish accent. And he even worked around the edges of gay sensibilities. "Arafat ... is so taken with the moment that he starts to pull me toward him and hug me and give me a two-cheek kiss. But I can only stand so much...
Israel detailed plans for a phased withdrawal from West Bank towns before Palestinian elections this year, provided that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's government stops militants who oppose peacemaking from attacking Israelis in the self-rule areas. "I think that the Palestinians who enter the cities understand very well that if there will be terrorism, everything that was agreed upon will not stand the test of reality," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a news conference. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a target date to signthe emerging accord, already a year overdue and one of the key preconditions...
...dead. Most were victims of suicide bombings carried out by Muslim extremists. "You get the feeling we're collectively going over a cliff," says student Sarah Halevi. "I completely don't trust anything the Palestinians say." Seeing the killers celebrated in the streets of Gaza, and how gingerly Yasser Arafat's governing Palestinian Authority has treated them (at least until very recently), most Israelis wonder whether it is possible ever to make peace. Even among Israeli peace activists, says Clinton Bailey, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, "people are asking whether making the deal with Arafat was the right...