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Arafat Swears in Emergency Palestinian Cabinet

HeadlineOct 07, 2003

And Yasser Arafat swore in new Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and an eight-member Cabinet today in an emergency session. The government will serve for a limited one-month term. The emergency government was quickly set up in part to make it harder for Israel to try to expel Arafat.

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