U.N. officials are calling on Israel to free Yasser Arafat from his virtual house arrest in Ramallah. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan made the appeal on Tuesday, and it was echoed Wednesday by the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson.
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