In message <016201c4c2a4$c34ac9a0$7aa8a8c0@HP522N>, Bruce Collins
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>In Washington, U.S. President George W. Bush was asked by a reporter for his
>reaction to reports that the Palestinian president had died.
>
>"My first reaction is God bless his soul," Mr. Bush said at the nationally
>televised news conference. "My second reaction is that we will continue to
>work for a free Palestinian state that's at peace with Israel."
>
>But Bush may have been acting before all the facts are in (again).

Here in the UK, the BBC has reported, perhaps prematurely, that Yasser
Arafat is now brain-dead.

If true, then it is fortunate that he is a politician. In any other
field, it would be a serious handicap.

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Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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