Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Monday launched the first Palestinian cellular telephone service. In the first telephone call carried by the Palestine Telecommunications Company, he said, using his revolutionary nickname, “Hello, Abu Ammar is speaking.”
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