Mr. Arafat is the story that won't die. Headlines abound:
CARE AND HONOURS FOR ARAFAT REVEAL FRENCH MIDEAST ASPIRATIONS
ARAFAT COULD HAVE BEEN POISONED: LEILA [Leila Shahid, French Palestinian Representative]
ARAFAT 'NOT POISONED', SAYS FRENCH MINISTER [Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy]
SHOOTING AT ARAFAT MOURNING SITE KILLS ONE
(The apparent target, PLO heir-apparent Mahmoud Abbas.)
FRANCE CAN RELEASE ARAFAT FILE TO ‘ELIGIBLE PARTIES’
CBS FIRES PRODUCER WHO BROKE INTO 'CSI:NY' FOR REPORT ON ARAFAT DEATH
(It is widely recognized that Mr. Arafat possesses no entertainment value.)
FRENCH PAPER [Le Canard Enchaine] CLAIMS ARAFAT HAD CIRRHOSIS OF LIVER
ARAB WORLD ABUZZ WITH SUSPICIONS ARAFAT WAS POISONED BY ISRAEL
ARAFAT [French] DEATH CERTIFICATE HAS JERUSALEM BIRTHPLACE
(The little chairman was born in Cairo, Egypt.)
ARAFAT TV TRIBUTE ANGERS KUWAITIS
'NOTHING TO HIDE' OVER ARAFAT'S DEATH, SAYS BARNIER
ARAFAT DIED OF CLOTTING DISORDER, SAYS LE MONDE
AUDIT: ARAFAT SKIMMED $2 MILLION MONTHLY
ARAFAT'S CONTROL OVER MILLIONS - OR BILLIONS - LEFT MYSTERY ON PLO'S HOLDINGS
FOR PALESTINIANS, A SENSE THAT ARAFAT'S ERA LEFT THEM EMPTY-HANDED
ARAFAT’S DEATH SEEN TIME FOR ‘GREAT OPPORTUNITIES’
FATAH MOVEMENT DEMANDS CAUSES OF ARAFAT’S DEATH
PALESTINIANS HEAD TO PARIS TO PROBE ARAFAT'S DEATH
NEPHEW TO REQUEST ARAFAT MEDICAL FILE IN FRANCE
MANY PALESTINIANS FEAR ARAFAT WAS POISONED
[PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER AHMED] QURIE ORDERS PROBE INTO ARAFAT DEATH
Constrained by France's strict privacy laws, Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy put to rest some of the wild rumors surrounding the undisclosed cause of Mr. Arafat's death at an unusual press conference. Taking questions for over an hour, the minister indicated a reporter's query on a specific cause was either COLD, WARM, HOT, or BURNING UP. The following is a range of highly unlikely to highly probable causes of the little chairman's demise: Remorse for a life of evil - COLD; feeling groovy - COLD; sweating to the oldies - COLD; secret tryst with Claudia Schiffer - COLD; dinner with Mr. Creosote - WARM; dinner with Suha - HOT; too many hospital pudding packs - HOT; the tabescence of unrelieved evil - BURNING UP.
Just in, Le Monde reports French doctors have now concluded Mr. Arafat died from a lack of life.
