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...exposed by previous Israeli assaults. A motley collection of supporters--including Palestinian schoolchildren, a marching band and a dozen members of Arafat's Fatah Party on horseback--rallied outside the quarters, chanting Arafat's nom de guerre, Abu Amar. President Bush has declared Arafat a "failed" leader, the Israeli Cabinet has vowed to "remove" him, and Israel's Deputy Prime Minister has called for his assassination, but the 74-year-old is walking as tall as ever. "I feel good," he told a visitor...
Arafat's public standing has been elevated by Israel's latest effort to neutralize him--the Cabinet announced this month that it intends "in principle" to expel him. Muqata'a insiders say Arafat is making the most of the situation. Having engineered the ouster of his rival, Mahmoud Abbas, the Prime Minister handpicked by the U.S. to supplant him, Arafat last week reasserted his claim as the undisputed leader of the Palestinians and positioned himself to control the makeup and direction of the new government of the Palestinian Authority, headed by Abbas' replacement, Ahmed Qurei. In a meeting with Fatah...
...weeks ago as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (and, thus, Prime Minister). As he tells it, the healthier statistics are proof that his structural economic reforms are working. As a sign of the increasing political capital that the rebound has provided him, Koizumi quickly shuffled his Cabinet, reappointing his controversial finance czar Heizo Takenaka and replacing the ailing 81-year-old Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa with Sadakazu Tanigaki, a younger, more reform-minded legislator...
Harvard made its most prominent appearance of the afternoon, on the Associated Press (AP), which quoted Institute of Politics Director and Clinton Cabinet Secretary Dan R. Glickman...
...This is my homeland...no one can kick me out." YASSER ARAFAT, Palestinian leader, after the Israeli security cabinet announced its decision to "remove...