Would-Be Successors Rush to Claim Arafat's Mantle
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat's image and  spirit haunted the fight to succeed him on Saturday, as seven  candidates launched campaigns playing up their links with the  late Palestinian president.
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Yasser Arafat may be dead -- but his image and his spirit hovered over the fight to succeed him, as seven candidates launched campaigns on Saturday playing up their links with the late Palestinian president.
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Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader, may make a long shot bid to succeed Yasir Arafat as head of the nation that would be Palestine.
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Following are brief profiles of Palestinian leaders who could become candidates to replace President Yasser Arafat, who has been described as &quot;very, very sick&quot; by officials.
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A Palestinian official said Sunday he expects the successors of Yasser Arafat to make concessions to Israel on issues the late leader had refused to consider.
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PALESTINIAN leaders stepping into the power vacuum left by the death of Yasser Arafat face one of the most daunting challenges in their people&#39;s troubled history.
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It will be a long time before a new Palestinian leader commands the public admiration and political power that Yasser Arafat did. This power enabled him to make concessions that no previous Palestinian leader would have considered.
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After four decades of conflict with Israel, Yasser Arafat seems destined to spark yet another battle in the event of his death. The 75-year-old guerrilla leader- turned-Palestinian
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In a pace-setting adventure next January that could herald a new beginning in the Middle East or spell disaster for all is the election of a Palestinian successor to the charismatic Yasser Arafat and a new Baghdad regime that could bring to an end the
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Yasser Arafat continues to fight for his life as Palestinian leaders gather to discuss who might succeed him if he dies.
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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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Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely
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Palestinians must act quickly to hold elections for a leader to replace Yasser Arafat if they are to peacefully transform their political system after more than
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PARIS -- A leading Palestinian Muslim cleric rushed to Yasser Arafat's bedside yesterday, reading passages from the Koran as the Palestinian leader clung to life. Government officials here and in the West Bank pressed ahead with funeral plans.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 13 -- Palestinians must act quickly to hold elections for a leader to replace Yasser Arafat if they are to peacefully transform their political system after more than three decades of one-man control, according to Palestinian politicians, academics and analysts.
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Without Yasser Arafat, the individual who has dominated Palestinian politics for the past 36 years, the Middle East may be entering the political equivalent of the &quot;perfect storm.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a critical condition as uncertainty mounted over who might succeed him and where he might be buried should he die.