Word: arafats
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...Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and chair of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), told a packed ARCO Forum he will continue to work toward peace in the Middle East despite opposition from Palestinian and Israeli extremists...
Approximately 800 students, faculty and dignitaries flooded the Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP), as president Neil I., Rudenstine introduced Arafat for his first address at an American university...
...refuse to read what they have prepared for me," Arafat said, as he stood at the podium and set aside the 10-page speech prepared for him. "I want to speak from my heart to your heart...
...mind, however, the words and deeds of the Arafat of yesterday will be ringing loud and clear. The "accessory of terrorism" will make his voice heard to me. The encouragement and optimism being displayed by the Arafat of today are cautiously kept in check by the condemnable track record of the Arafat of yesterday. Through hearing both of these voices tonight, I will carefully be listening for the Arafat of tomorrow...
Aides to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly asked Yasser Arafat to leave a special New York Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" Monday night because he was not invited, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani had said that the PLO leader and Fidel Castro were not to join other dignitaries in town for the U.N. celebration, but Arafat turned up in his highly-visible, checked headress anyway...