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...emergency meeting to plan a stepped-up response to the third major Hamas attack in 10 days. Their options are limited: Israeli security is already madly chasing the terrorists, and a top security official told Ben-Yishai today that further precautions may be futile, including pressing P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat to control the loose-cannon Hamas. "The perpetrators are a small group, but part of a huge organization," Ben-Yishai says...
...give too many people a second chance? Kurt Waldheim survived his past as a Nazi to head the United Nations. Yasser Arafat has weathered a reputation as a terrorist long enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfonse D'Amato is serving out one more term, not in a penitentiary for corruption, but as New York's U.S. Senator. A couple of years ago, a former Ku Klux Klan leader as close to the governorship of Louisiana as North is to the Senate seat...
P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made a conciliatory -- and politically risky -- gesture, ordering the arrests of 300 Islamic Hamas activists, supporters of the militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will...
...Middle East flare-up doesn't exactly set the perfect tone for the announcement expected tomorrow: that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat have won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...