Word: yasser
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...Yasser Arafat also seized the occasion to visit for the first time the country he had so long preached unrelenting war against. The Israelis refused to invite the Palestine Liberation Organization chief to Rabin's funeral. But an Israeli military helicopter flew him into Tel Aviv Thursday night to pay a condolence call at Leah Rabin's apartment. Arafat told Mrs. Rabin that her husband was a "hero of peace" and a "dear friend." She responded that "Yitzhak saw in you, Mr. Arafat, a partner in making peace." If tact forbade either to mention what both well knew--that Rabin...
Harvard Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy said that security for Rabin's visit would have been approximately as heavy as that during the visit of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat on October...
...Israeli drama in which he took part, this, perhaps, is the one for which Rabin will be best remembered. As he stepped onto the lawn, he was clearly wrestling with the fact that by events of his own making, he was now being asked to shake the hand of Yasser Arafat, a man Israelis had reviled for decades for his role in planning, financing or inspiring hundreds of attacks on Jewish men, women and children. But despite the setting and the players and the audience (the world), perhaps what was most remarkable about the occasion was the expression on Rabin...
...Yigal Amir, was arrested on the spot. He reportedly said he acted alone, although he has been linked to a tiny extremist group called Eyal, which fiercely rejects Rabin's participation in peace negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. "I am very sad and very shocked," said P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. President Clinton, who called Rabin "a martyr for his nation's peace," will attend Monday's funeral. The Israeli Cabinet immediately named Foreign Minister Shimon Peres acting Prime Minister. A government spokesman vowed "to press ahead with the peace process...
...into 14 military vehicles and drove out of the West Bank town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who was formally approved as leader of the ruling Labor Party on Sunday, had moved up the transfer by a week to show his committment to peace with the Palestinians. "They really did it in the wee hours...