CLAMART, France Oct 30, 2004 — Initial results from a battery of tests on Yasser Arafat found no signs Saturday of leukemia, Palestinian officials said, but blood doctors were still probing the cause of the ailing Palestinian leader's dramatic deterioration in health. "Arafat does not have leukemia," Mohammed Rashid, a close Arafat aide, said Saturday night. "It's been ruled out." Results from additional tests to determine what was wrong were due Wednesday, he said. Arafat was rushed from the West Bank to a French military hospital after being ill for two weeks with what was initially described as a bad flu, with...
