Yasser Arafat and his prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, continue to battle over the appointment of a security minister. As a result, the mandate of the Palestinian Authority’s 30-day emergency Cabinet, which was to have expired on Tuesday night, was extended as an open-ended “caretaker government.”
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