Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Qurei asked Arafat's ruling Fatah movement to choose candidates for up to 16 of 24 Cabinet posts, a decision that appears to grant Arafat significant control over the composition of the new Cabinet. "Fatah institutions will choose the members of the government, in consultation with President Arafat," said legislator Hani al-Hassan. Fatah legislators met Monday to come up with candidates for Cabinet posts. The outgoing prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, widely known as Abu Mazen, had come under constant criticism from Fatah, in part because the party felt it was not sufficiently represented in his Cabinet. In...