Word: yasser
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...British economies are either in a recession or on the brink of one, and corporations are shrinking their office space. At the same time, developers are feeling the effects of a global credit crunch. Finally, banks are wary of assuming greater exposure in the real estate business. James Yasser, a senior vice president at Milstein Properties in New York City, sounds a familiar refrain: "Everything went right during the '80s, and now everything is going in reverse...
After more than two decades of practice, Yasser Arafat has become an expert in the fine art of survival. Now the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization will once again have to use all his skills to find a way through the current crisis. By refusing to condemn Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, Arafat has infuriated many of his Arab backers, alienated Western powers that had only recently begun to warm to him, and driven Israeli doves into the camps of the hawks...
There are some indications that these scenarios are more than American paranoia. Bassam Abu Sharif, an adviser to Yasser Arafat, the head of the pro- Iraq Palestine Liberation Organization, visited Baghdad last week. Abu Sharif reports that if war comes, Saddam is threatening to strike Israel and oil-loading installations throughout Saudi Arabia and the gulf states...
...addition to shoving Riyadh decisively into the Western camp, the gulf crisis has forced the Saudis to rethink relations with their fellow Arabs. According to Western diplomats, Riyadh has decided to financially squeeze the P.L.O., once a big recipient of Saudi largesse, as punishment for its support of Saddam. Yasser Arafat, whom King Fahd dislikes anyway, has asked three times to visit the kingdom but has been turned away. Angered by King Hussein's vacillations on the gulf crisis, King Fahd has refused calls from the Jordanian monarch, who also ranks high on the Saudi dole list. By refusing...
...loser in the Arab realignment is Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. His support of Iraq has earned him the enmity of Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia and the gulf states that had been the P.L.O.'s principal financiers. Abu Dhabi would not even let Arafat's plane touch down on its territory last week. Dubai grudgingly permitted a landing when the aircraft ran dangerously low on fuel, but only on the condition that Arafat not set foot outside the plane...