Standing firm, Arafat seen to counter his critics
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat appears to have faced down the biggest challenge to his leadership in years without giving ground on demands to overhaul his administration, while Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel struggles to chart a new political course amid rising dissent in his party, officials and analysts say.
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PARIS -- As he lay in a French military hospital fighting for his life early today, Yasser Arafat was at the center of a struggle over who would replace him as Palestinian leader and a controversy over his longtime desire to be buried in Jerusalem.
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Arab columnists have praised and criticized    Yasser Arafat 's tactics over the years, but in the wake of his death, they agreed on one thing: Palestinian leaders with new approaches may emerge, but the conditions under which they try to govern remain the same.
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Gaza City - With Yasser Arafat fighting for his life in hospital and Israel firmly opposed to a Jerusalem burial, many Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as a fitting alternative place of rest for their leader.
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Committee of Palestinian MPs cast doubt on Arafat&#39;s willingness to implement reform, crack down on corruption. By Majeda El-Batsh - RAMALLAH, West Bank.
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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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French doctors attending to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a private nursing home in Clamart, near Paris, have said that he is in good shape, but still not out of danger.
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The health of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains &quot;critical&quot; but not &quot;irreversible&quot;, his senior aide said Saturday.
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Yasser Arafat fended off another challenge to his authority yesterday when Palestinian legislators backed away from sweeping reform demands, instead approving a watered-down set of recommendations.
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Israel cites some doubts, but Arabs say their advice is now being heard.
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CLAMART, France: Some 20 pro-Palestinians continued a vigil early Saturday outside a hospital here after doctors tending Yasser Arafat said his condition had not changed but refused to respond to unconfirmed reports that the 75-year-old leader was brain
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French hospital officials say Yasser Arafat&#39;s condition is &quot;stable&quot; and has not changed since yesterday. The spokesman for French military health services says the Palestinian leader&#39;s &quot;health has not worsened&quot; -- though he would not elaborate.
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The loss of Yasser Arafat could ease the Palestinian-Israeli conflict significantly, local observers of Middle Eastern politics said Friday.
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Palestinians ready to compromise will claim to be completing Arafat's journey. So will those wanting to fight on
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Despite Arafat's flaws, area residents say the leader represented struggle of the state.
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A Palestinian official says his &#39;ability to resist and the will of God&#39; will decide the leader&#39;s fate. PARIS -- A deeply comatose Yasser Arafat clung to life yesterday after suffering another downturn, his
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PARIS -- The word on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's health yesterday afternoon was brief and to the point. &quot;There is no change; he is still in a critical condition,&quot; Nabil Abu Irdineh, one of his longtime senior aides, told reporters and cameramen who descended upon him when he entered the ornate lobby of the Intercontinental Le Grand Hotel.