Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pick up a copy of the Harvard Gazette and see the president of Harvard University clasping hands with a terrorist such as Yasser Arafat presented so jarring an image that it could not go without being noted. To imagine that a murderer has been allowed the privilege of addressing an audience at this proud institution and to tread upon ground hallowed by the footsteps of heroes, is surely enough to send chills down the spine of every decent member of our community...
...indulging Arafat's desire for a sounding board from which to advance his nefarious aims, the Kennedy School, and Harvard University by extension, has averted its eyes from his long and disgraceful record of murder and destruction. It should not be considered melodramatic to associate the "red carpet" with which Arafat was welcomed with the blood of the countless thousands of innocent men, women and children whom he and his henchmen have slain in the course of the malicious history of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...national conscience so fickle as to forgive a terrorist for his crimes against humanity, without ever having tried him in a court of law--a mere matter of months after the most heinous of them have been perpetrated? In welcoming a man such as Arafat, whose hands are not yet dry from the bloodshed of his all-too-recent career, the Harvard administration is setting a disturbing precedent. It would have been no less appropriate for the Kennedy School to entertain Saddam Hussein or Muammar Qadaffi...
...Bank. But in an interview from the Israeli prison where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...
...Chirac. A pair of paleocommunist and postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama, the Prime Minister of Japan. Nelson Mandela (second row, second from left) wore dark glasses. One of the tiniest countries...