Word: yasser
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...Yasser Arafat speaks passable English but hardly a syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...
...expected, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat swiftly denounced Shamir's proposals, calling them "inappropriate, as usual," and many Palestinians in the occupied territories followed suit. In Jerusalem on Friday, the first day of the month-long Ramadan observance, hundreds of Palestinians pouring out of midday prayer services at the al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount launched an angry demonstration, throwing rocks and chanting anti-Israeli and anti- American slogans...
...what if they want Yasser Arafat as their President? In Amman...
Ariel Sharon lashes out against those who would surrender land, and has nothing nice to say about Yasser Arafat...
Though P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat has become more flexible and wily in his diplomacy, his organization's intransigence nearly matches Shamir's. In his first formal session with the P.L.O. last week, a four-hour meeting in Carthage, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau failed to persuade Arafat's representatives to order a halt to the rock throwing and other violence of the intifadeh. The rebuff, together with continued raids from Lebanese territory, showed that progress toward a settlement is more than a matter of moving Shamir's government...