Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arafat Wants Jerusalem Talks...
...week, Syrians gathered in hushed groups to stare at their television sets as Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warmly pledged an end to a state of war and the beginning of an era of cooperation. Following so quickly on the return of Yasser Arafat and officials of his Palestine Liberation Organization to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, last week's handshake confirmed that the mood in the region is shifting strongly toward peace...
...Strip is scarce except for jobs in Israel. The $2.5 billion in aid over five years pledged by the international community to build Palestinian houses and schools and train workers for better jobs will help, but only a trickle of funds is flowing in. Last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asked U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open the spigot full blast. The Secretary voiced sympathy but reiterated the demands of donors for strict accounting controls. Arafat fumes at such "economic occupation," but donors, recalling the P.L.O.'s freewheeling spending habits, have reason to fear creation of a giant...
...Adams: I don't remember Nelson Mandela renouncing violence or Arafat genuflecting. It's a two-way process to bring about a demilitarization, to get those involved in armed action to stop. No sane person wants to be engaged in violence. But to put preconditions on people prematurely only makes the situation more problematic. Sinn Fein doesn't advocate violence. We don't advocate armed struggle. We have suffered from the violence. I want to see an unarmed strategy. I want to see a situation where the I.R.A. ceases activities. But the people who are looking down their guns...
...Yasser Arafat has got to change the P.L.O.'s loose accounting style before edgy international donors will agree to deliver $2.4 billion to help get his new Palestinian state off the ground. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who met Arafat in Gaza City today in the highest-level U.S.-Palestinian meeting there since self-rule began, told the P.L.O. chairman he'd have to provide the World Bank and other groups up-front paperwork on how the money would be spent. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister, traveling with Christopher, says Arafat wants it in a slush fund to continue...