Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan denounced President Clinton’s visit to the Gaza Strip as a sham. Some 1,500 demonstrators participated in a rally at a refugee camp near Damascus in which they denounced Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s willingness to revoke the clauses in the Palestinian charter calling for the destruction of Israel.
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