Word: palestinians
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Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority [PNA], is scheduled to speak at the Kennedy School of Government next Tuesday, the school announced yesterday...
Bahbah was able to arrange the visit because of connections he made with Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO] while editing the now-defunct Palestinian newsletter Al-fair, according to Institute Director Leonard J. Hausman...
...Institute for Social and Economic Policy received a $2 million grant in 1994 from Kenneth and Evelyn Litper to provide technical assistance to the new Palestinian government...
While Israel naturally draws the lion's share of Gazan criticism, Arafat and his Authority are not exempt from it. "The Chairman thinks ideologically," says a human-rights worker who, revealingly, does not want to be named. "He is focusing on the basic principle, namely Palestinian independence. He's not interested in day-to-day problems, in infrastructure where we are starting from below zero. The few changes for the better have been trivial, cheap cosmetics. Paving a few roads, some improvement in education and public health--that's it." More trenchant complaints focus on corruption and nepotism...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, meeting at the White House, agreed to extend Palestinian rule to almost a third of the West Bank, providing for Palestinian elections and laying the foundation for what could become a Palestinian state. The two leaders signed an intricately worded 400-page document that outlines the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from territory seized in the 1967 Six-Day War and transfers governing authority to Palestinians for most of their population in the West Bank. A last-minute dispute over the timing of Israeli troops' withdrawal from Hebron was resolved...