The Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives said Yasser Arafat should do more to clamp down on violence. “There has to be more action. The words are in place. The actions are what are missing at this point,” Richard Gephardt said Thursday during a visit to the Middle East with other members of the House.
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