[lbo-talk] was Arafat, um, you know?

[Doug Henwood]

[from Popbitch]

         >> Arafatwa <<

         Is Yasser the new Freddie?

       Yasser Arafat's mysterious illness and death

       this morning has started some particularly

       lurid rumours. The one gaining most currency,

       and said to be confirmed by a cousin of the

       PLO chairman, is that he suffered the same

       quick illness and sudden coma/brain-death

       as Rock Hudson and Liberace did some years ago.