Arafat link to US bowling alleys
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WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 24: Celebrating bowlers at Strike Bethesda in suburban Maryland on Thursday were blissfully unaware that up in New Yorkâs Greenwich Village, the alleyâs owner had found himself in a brouhaha of Middle Eastern proportions.
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Refusing to talk to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has been a cornerstone of US Middle East policy since President Bush, in June 2002, called on the Palestinians to choose new leadership not tainted by terrorism.
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Colin Powell, the departing US Secretary of State, flies into Israel tonight to open a week of diplomacy aimed at helping to revive the Middle East peace process after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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For Mohammed Sayyah, who owns a car body shop on the Northeastside, the death of Yasser Arafat was more than an item in the news. Born to Palestinian parents who fled their home under Israeli
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A fashionable Manhattan bowling alley  that boasts celebrity customers such as Rudy Giuliani and  Harvey Weinstein said on Thursday it was returning $1.3 million  reported to have come from Yasser Arafat.
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Weymouth: Many say that Yasser Arafat&#39;s death is a turning point in the Middle East. Do you see it that way? Abbas: Arafat was a symbolic leader for the Palestinian people.
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The owner of a popular bowling alley in Greenwich Village said Thursday his company was severing ties with a group tied to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and is returning its &#36;1.3 million investment.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in pain because of an intestine problem but his doctors expect him to be feeling much better in a few days, the Palestinian Authority&#39;s foreign minister said today.
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JACK Straw, the Foreign Secretary, visited the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday at the end of a two-day trip to Israel and the West Bank to help revive the Middle East peace process.
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More than two years ago President Bush cut off all U.S. contact with Yasser Arafat as a failed and corrupt leader. But Bush did not retract his pledge to help the Palestinians achieve statehood.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says he hopes to meet Palestinian leaders soon as part of a harder US push for peace in the region following the death of President Yasser Arafat.
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NEW YORK: The owner of a popular bowling alley in Manhattan said yesterday his company was severing ties with a group tied to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and is returning its $1.3 million investment.
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As grief sweeps the West Bank and Gaza strip over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Americans are feeling the loss thousands of miles away.
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According to an Israeli official, Yasir Arafat was allowed to see doctors from Tunisia. For almost three years, Mr. Arafat, the Palestinian leader, has been in Ramallah on the West Bank for most of the last three years.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attends a PLO executive committee meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah in this Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004 file photo.
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Sponsors of an internationally backed Mideast peace plan will send their foreign ministers to the region next week in hopes of restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks in the wake of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Yasser Arafat was in intensive care Saturday in a French hospital, as former US envoys said his death would open up opportunities for peace, especially if pragmatic Palestinian leaders emerge.