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...didn't he--faint, that is? That was the question surrounding YASSER ARAFAT last week after an Egyptian official leaked word that the Palestinian leader had passed out during a contretemps with the Foreign Minister of Qatar while in Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest...
JERUSALEM: Reports of Yasser Arafat's imminent demise are almost surely exaggerated. Last Friday Israeli Television quoted "Western intelligence sources" saying that Arafat suffers from a "serious illness," and there were rumors that he fainted Sunday during a closed-door Arab summit meeting in Cairo. But TIME Jersusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer reports that few dispassionate observers believe the Palestinian leader is seriously ill. "His hands shake, and his lips tremble, and there is some reasonable speculation that he might have the very beginnings of Parkinson's disease," says Beyer...
...CAIRO: Today?s deadly attack on tourists by suspected Islamic militants in Cairo was a direct response to the death sentences imposed on four of their comrades earlier this week, says TIME?s Cairo reporter Amany Radwan. "Their motivation is to tell the government: 'You think you have the upper hand, you have us in jail and impose death sentences, but we are still here and we?re still able to inflict damage...
...Nine people died in the firebomb attack on tourist buses outside the Egyptian Museum ? the largest attack in Cairo in two years. Says Radwan: "Although there has been some fighting in the south of the country, Cairo has been very quiet, and this came as a surprise ? at a time when tourism is booming...
...often spoke at U.N. meetings relating to economic development and famine and was the keynote speaker at the 1995 U.N. Conference on Population in Cairo, Jorgenson said...