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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...
...recent weeks, he's also been asked to explain statements made about Jews. Some of the senator's best friends are Jewish, the senator said, and they're among "the most intelligent people I know." But they're "too emotional" over the question of an undivided Jersusalem. His patronizing attitude ignores serious moral and foreign policy questions being asked by Jewish and non-Jewish voters alike. At a suburban Illinois synagogue last week. Percy suggested that Jews have to live in "the real world when it comes to school prayer"--as if all those who oppose voluntary school prayer live...
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