Word: yasser
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Another warning of danger outside the wire-rimmed islet of peace sounded in the north, where militiamen, presumably from the Muslim extremist group Hizballah, in Lebanon exchanged fire with Israeli troops. And in the Gaza Strip the Palestine Liberation Organization's leader Yasser Arafat, with whom Israel made peace last year, called a general strike. He was protesting a clause in the treaty that lends weight to Jordan's claim to protect Jerusalem's Muslim holy places...
Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan, also at the Casablanca conference, announced his country would relinquishcontrol of Muslim shrinesin east Jerusalem -- a privilege Israel had just granted Jordan in last month's peace treaty, infuriating Palestinians so much that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat boycotted the treaty signing. Now, Hassan said, Jordan would transfer authority once Israel reaches a full agreement over self-rule for the emerging Palestinian state -- which is expected to happen within months.Post comment onInternational
...cameras will shoot some better visuals. Clinton witnessing the signing of a peace treaty in a cleared minefield on the Israeli-Jordanian border. Addressing, separately, the Jordanian and Israeli parliaments. Visiting U.S. troops in Kuwait. Hobnobbing in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, in Saudi Arabia with King Fahd and in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Looking very presidential throughout, no doubt, and maybe winning more votes for Democratic candidates than he could have by campaigning at home...
...Yasser Arafat is in a tighter pinch. Hamas rejects any settlement with Israel, and is aiming its fire as much at the P.L.O. leader as Rabin. Arafat is increasingly caught between Israeli demands that he crack down on the militants and his constituents' aversion to an inter-Palestinian fight. Even the relative moderates within Hamas were alarmed for their own reasons. "Things are out of our hands," said a sheik from the West Bank. "Wild people are running the show...
...crowded bus in normally placid Tel Aviv; 21 people were killed. The especially grisly suicide attack came just days after the bloody denouement of a Hamas kidnapping in which two Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians died. Rabin vowed to crack down on Hamas suspects and urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to do the same...