The Plo and Yasser Arafat—from Terrorism to Statesmanship to Terrorism
The Conflict
From the beginning, Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have been seen by Palestinia...
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Yasser Arafat (born 1929) was elected chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. Though originally an advocate of all-out guerrilla war, from 1974 on he and the PLO sometimes s...
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Dec 17 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on December 24 since 1900: 1914 - A German plane, in the first air raid on Britain,
dropped a single bomb on Dover. 1941 ...
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Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate cha...
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Gaza City (dpa) - The Palestinian attorney-general criticized
Wednesday an investigation committee formed by Hamas to probe the
killing of seven Palestinians in a Gaza rally...
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Nov 18 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on Nov. 25 since 1900: 1952 - Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opened in
London. Still playing to audiences today, ...
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Some key events in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts:_ Oct. 30, 1991: Israel and Arab nations join world powers at Madrid Conference, first time all sit down at same table for peace talks._ Sept. 1...
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JERUSALEM, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush
met on Thursday with the sons of former Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, an old ally who has been in a coma since suffering
a stroke...
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Jan 27 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on February 3 since 1900: 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States,
died. 1959 - Singers Buddy Holly, ...
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Today is Friday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2007. There are 346 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Jan. 19, 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in ...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thought Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a weak disappointment, and she once judged President Bush's signature Mideast peace program unworkable, according to ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday inaugurated a mausoleum
built over Yasser Arafat's grave and vowed to continue on his
iconic predecessor's p...
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The Plo and Yasser Arafat—From Terrorism to Statesmanship to Terrorism
Yasser Arafat
Reuters historical calendar - December 24
