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...blazing Mediterranean sunshine, Yasser Arafat crossed the border from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, dropped to his knees and kissed the sandy soil. As the welcoming crowd cheered and waved black-red-green-and-white flags, he was surrounded by officials and security men from the Palestine Liberation Organization. He and his aides piled into a convoy of cars and trucks carrying armed guards and sped along the main north-south route into Gaza City. Thousands of supporters roared a welcome outside the building where the Israeli army of occupation had its local headquarters until last...
...initial return of Yasser Arafat, awaited so long by his Palestinian followers and dreaded by so many Israelis, went surprisingly smoothly. There was one brief scare: two Israelis working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority were seized by Palestinian security personnel for possessing handguns but were later released...
MIDDLE EAST: The Return of Yasser Arafat...
...Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader of his ancestral Palestinian homeland. In Jericho, Arafat led12 members of the Palestine National Authority in the oath of office for the self-rule government, despite complaints that Israeli officials had allowed Jewish militants to block thousands of Palestinians from the modest ceremony. Next stop for Arafat: Paris, where he'll receive a U.N. Peace Prize with Israeli leaders Wednesday. He's likely to use the platform to wangle slow-coming international financial...
Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization resumed stalled talks about autonomy for the occupied territories, and the PLO's top negotiator hinted that Yasser Arafat is poised for a long-awaited return to Jericho next month. The Israelis, who had wanted to test-run Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, said they were ready to talk about a quick expansion of self-rule to the rest of the West Bank. In turn, Arafat might settle in Jericho in mid-July -- as long as he and other Palestinians are guaranteed "safe passage roads" between the two independent zones...