Mourning Palestinians Pledge Vote to Replace Arafat
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s successors promised swift elections to replace him Saturday as Palestinians flocked to his tomb to pay last respects to the ex-guerrilla who symbolized hopes of a state.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank for  nearly three decades, a dry run for a presidential ballot next  month to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat's successors  promised swift elections to replace him Saturday as  Palestinians flocked to his tomb to pay last respects to the  ex-guerrilla who symbolized hopes of a state.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat and looked likely to  elect Mahmoud Abbas, a pragmatist who has promised to revive a  peace process with Israel after years of bloodshed.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat and were expected to  elect Mahmoud Abbas, who has pledged to revive peacemaking with  Israel after years of bloodshed.
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Palestinians say they&#39;ll honor Arafat&#39;s request by burying him in Jerusalem in the future. A checkered head scarf arranged the way Arafat wore his is planted on a stick at the grave.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinians pray at the grave of leader Yasser Arafat at the Muqataa, Arafat&#39;s destroyed headquarters, in the West Bank town of Ramallah Nov. 15.
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RAMALLAH, 26 December 2004 - Mahmoud Abbas kicked off his campaign to succeed Yasser Arafat yesterday, pledging to uphold the late Palestinian leaderâs legacy and deliver on his promise of Palestinian statehood.
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Israel has pledged it would do all it can to help a smooth election to choose a successor to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, including allowing Arabs in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem to vote.
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Palestinians formally opened the campaign to replace Yasser Arafat yesterday as candidates aspiring to replace the long-time leader began seeking signatures to qualify for the January 9 ballot.
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Cloaking himself in Yasser Arafat's legacy, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas opened his campaign for president Saturday with a pledge to fulfill Palestinian dreams of statehood.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians hold municipal  elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a  dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser  Arafat's successor next month.
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As grieving Palestinians flocked to Yasser Arafat&#39;s tomb to pay their last respects, his successors yesterday promised a swift election to replace him.
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Thousands poured onto Palestinian  streets to mourn Yasser Arafat on Thursday while world leaders  praised him as an icon of his people's struggle whose death  could usher in a new Middle East peace drive.
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RAMALLAH: Palestinian leaders last night decided they would seek to have President Yasser Arafat buried at his West Bank headquarters.
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YASSER Arafat is dead. A so-called moderate is now chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Elections to choose a Palestinian Authority president are scheduled in the West Bank and Gaza for early January.