The New York Times · New York, NY · 7 October 1971

CP-1971-011

An Attempt to Kill Arafat Reported

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Transcribed from the clipping

“The Palestinian guerrilla leader, Yasir Arafat, escaped an assassination attempt today, the Fatah guerrilla group reported. His driver was killed.”

Context added by this archive

Four sentences. The man who lived is in the headline; the man who died is in the second line and has no name, which is the oldest habit in this collection.

Cite this item

"An Attempt to Kill Arafat Reported," The New York Times, 7 October 1971. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1971-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1971-011

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