Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was reportedly fighting for his life in a French hospital on Thursday night after he was rushed into intensive care on the day before, triggering rumors he had died, Palestinian officials in Ramallah and Paris announced. The officials described Arafat's condition as "extremely critical" but refused to elaborate. Late Thursday night, Suha Arafat, speaking to the leader of the southern faction of the Islamic Movement Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish, said that her husband was not clinically dead and not in a coma. Mrs. Arafat said reports that her husband had died were "a festival of...
