11.   As violence peppered the Palestinian territories and Israeli a meeting with the besieged Palestinian leader in a new push to end the violence.

12.   Besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is still the only legitimate representative of the Palestinians, the European Commission said in a document made public Saturday.

13.   Besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has attained a heroic stature on Arab TV screens totally opposed to Israeli descriptions of him as a terrorist gang leader at bay.

14.   Besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat told Russian media Sunday that he spends his time away from politics by relaxing to classical music and reading through history books.

15.   Cyprus-Israeli relations nose-dived after a Cypriot parliamentary delegation, attempting to visit besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his blockaded HQ, was sent packing Sunday.

16.   The official said that Aznar had tried to speak to besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat but had not been able to get through.

17.   Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday he was not ruling out the possibility of exiling besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, state radio reported.

18.   Israel will not allow a EU delegation to visit besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, an Israeli official close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told AFP juvsday.

19.   It is not clear if he will meet with besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

20.   Powell was later to confer with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and is scheduled to meet with besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday.