U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expressed doubts about Yasser Arafat’s grip on power. Speaking Sunday on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press,” Rumsfeld said Arafat “is not a particularly strong leader, and I don’t know that he has good control over the Palestinian situation.”
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