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Arafat's Body Arrives in Cairo for Funeral
Times Staff WritersA jet carrying the coffin of Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo today, hours after the Palestinian leader died at a French hospital from an undisclosed ailment. Pallbearers walked along a red carpet laid on the tarmac, carrying his coffin, draped in a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Television Industry, White House, Death
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Abbas Vows to Follow Arafat's Hard Line
Special to the TimesRAMALLAH, West Bank — Mahmoud Abbas, the newly named head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, vowed today to pursue Yasser Arafat's goals of achieving a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and securing a "right of return" for...Tags: Elections, Israel, Government, Yasser Arafat, Palestine
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Grieving Palestinians Post Arafat's Image Everywhere
Times Staff WritersRAMALLAH, West Bank — Penned inside a half-demolished compound for the last two-and-a-half years of his life, Yasser Arafat in death was suddenly everywhere. Within hours of the news that Arafat had died in a Paris hospital, grieving Palestinians...Tags: Gaza City, Jerusalem (Israel), Israel, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Powell Upbeat on Mideast Peace Prospects
Times Staff WritersJERUSALEM — Secretary of State Colin L. Powell today began a whirl of new Middle East diplomacy, meeting with Israelis and Palestinians and declaring that he had new confidence the two sides will cooperate in the election of a Palestinian president....Tags: United Nations, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Foreign Aid
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Muslims Step Up Plans for Post-Arafat Era
Times Staff WritersWith Yasser Arafat's organs reported to be failing as he lay comatose in a French hospital, today brought a hastening drumbeat of preparations — in Jerusalem and Cairo, the West Bank and Paris — for what all seemed to believe was the...Tags: France, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Paris (France)
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Sharon OKs crackdown on militants in Gaza
Los Angeles TimesJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he had authorized the military to step up its efforts against armed militants in the Gaza Strip amid what he termed inaction by the new Palestinian leadership. The announcement came...Tags: Ariel Sharon, Hamas, Elections, Israel, Los Angeles Times
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Arafat says he speaks for his people
Associated PressJERUSALEM - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stepped in to assert yesterday that he, not his prime minister, is in charge of the Palestinian side in negotiations with Israel, throwing plans for an Israeli-Palestinian summit into confusion. The dispute...Tags: Summits, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Government, Yasser Arafat
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From the archives: Iraqi Leader Basks in Glow of Victory, Arabs' Respect
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBAGHDAD, Iraq -- In the lobbies of Baghdad's luxury hotels, portraits of President Saddam Hussein, attired in a Western suit, beam serenely on clusters of foreign businessmen. Posters in the pastoral towns of northern Kurdistan portray the president...Tags: United Nations, Los Angeles Times, Ruhollah Khomeini, Political Systems, Basra (Iraq)
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From the archives: Arafat Declines to Clarify Stand on PLO Charter
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPARIS -- In the face of sharp criticism from rival Palestinian leaders, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat refused Wednesday to clarify his use of an ambiguous French word that has stirred hopes of progress toward peace in the Middle...Tags: France, Los Angeles Times, Defense, George W. Bush, Yasser Arafat
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