Police arrested 15 pro-Palestinian militants demonstrating outside the home of France’s prime minister. The demonstrators used firecrackers and bull horns early Sunday morning outside Lionel Jospin’s house to “wake up” the French government to the plight of the Palestinian people and of Yasser Arafat, who remains confined to his Ramallah headquarters, according to protest organizers.
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