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When South Korea approved $7 million for Palestinian economic development, Mr. Arafat shaved off $2 million for a new presidential headquarters and residence on the outskirts of Nablus. Palestinians learned of their president's grandiose scheme after he sent in police to confiscate thousands of acres belonging to local farmers. Some of the landowners lay down in front of the Palestinian Authority's bulldozers and have since disappeared.

In Jerusalem a Palestinian academic who claimed she was raped by one of Mr. Arafat' close advisers has been detained by Palestinian secret service personnel.

In Ramallah the deputy Mayor, Zaki Nahas, was abducted by members of force 17, Mr. Arafat's presidential security guards, after he refused to sell his land to a senior Palestinian official.

In the same city a wealthy businessman, Ahmed Abu Ghosh, was severely beaten by the head of the Palestinian secret service, Colonel Jibril Rajoub, after he refused to give up his parking space to the wife of a Palestinian minister.