Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know the supposed reasons for what happened, First, Jackson, in 1984, referred to New York as "hymietown." Second, although he clearly repudiates the anti-Semitic remarks of Louis Farrakhan, Jackson refuses to condemn Farrakhan outright. Third, Jackson has met with Yassir Arafat and other Arab leaders, and urged the U.S. government to follow a Middle East policy that recognizes both Israel's right to peace and security and the rights of Palestinians to dignity and justice...
EVEN BEFORE HIS LATEST BRUSH WITH ETERNITY, Yasser Arafat was described by allies and enemies alike as the Middle East's ultimate survivor. His 23-year tenure as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization has been marked by repeated political defeats, accidents and assassination plots. So after his plane was reported missing over Libya last week, political leaders restrained themselves from dwelling on what life might be like without...
...built turboprop plane were killed when it crash-landed during a sandstorm over the southern Libyan desert. He and his staff of nine had been flying from the Sudan to Libya when the storm closed in. Libyan search planes found the downed craft the next morning. "I'm well," Arafat said...
...appealed for international help, and former President Jimmy Carter phoned the White House with the request for American assistance. The p.l.o. later expressed its gratitude to the U.S., which has no official relations with the organization. But officials in Washington insist they were still only "evaluating" the request when Arafat was rescued. The U.S., they said, did "absolutely nothing" to help locate...
...trying to find him now," said Bassam Abu-Sharif, Arafat's chief adviser, speaking when the plane was more than seven hours overdue...