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...truth concerning that conflict can be glimpsed from two details of Yasser Arafat's illness and death [Nov. 22]. His people had to take him to another country for decent medical care, and they had to ask Israel, his lifelong enemy, for permission to return his body for burial in Ramallah in the West Bank. Can you imagine an Israeli Prime Minister being put in the same position? Until the fundamental economic and political inequalities that lie behind such contrasts are corrected, there is little hope for peace in that blood-smeared region. William P. Reich Evanston, Illinois...
...cancel her trip because of the bad weather.) In Real, a three-story building at a beach hotel complex that was being used as an evacuation center collapsed, killing 114 and leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan and his three sons and daughter managed to clamber onto the corrugated-tin roof. While waiting to be rescued, the youngest son, 12-year-old Roberto, got entangled in a live power line...
...away from the coast, at least 640 people were confirmed dead and nearly 400 were missing. Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has suspended all logging and promised severe punishment for lawbreakers, in the face of yet another reminder of how hazardous it is to fool around with Mother Nature. - By Anthony Spaeth; Reported by Nelly Sindayen Early Poll PORTUGAL Socialist President Jorge Sampaio announced he will dissolve...
...meaning of Yasir Arafat’s death to the Palestinians was best witnessed at his burial Friday in the West Bank. Heaving, chaotic throngs of mourners seemingly devoured Arafat’s flag-draped coffin, returning full-circle the leader who had emerged from their midst to raise and carry the Palestinian flag of resistance and nationalist aspiration for forty years. Working ceaselessly, often in exile from his native land, Arafat stubbornly represented his people and their cause and won them a hard-fought war for international legitimacy and recognition. Today the Palestinian national cause stands as a pressing...
...mountains of Turkey. Aznar's government was criticized by the families of the deceased for transporting them in an old plane in such poor condition. Now it turns out that the bodies of 30 of those soldiers were incorrectly identified - and sent to the wrong families for burial...