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ARAFAT GAVE 12G IN GEMS TO CLINTONS
Wednesday,April 4,2001
By BRIAN BLOMQUIST
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WASHINGTON - In a new gifts twist, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
reportedly showered Bill and Hillary Clinton in gold and diamond necklaces,
bracelets and earrings - $12,000 in gifts in all.
In addition, Arafat gave former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
jewelry worth $17,400, according to this week's New York Observer, which
also reports the gifts to the Clintons.
The Clintons didn't take the gifts with them, so they were sent to the
National Archives with other offerings from world leaders, said aides to the
former president and Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.).
State Department spokesman Nick Griffith said he didn't know what happened
to Arafat's gifts to Albright.
The Clintons were required to disclose all the gifts they kept when they
left the White House - and the revelation that they tried to walk off with
some gifts that were meant for the White House, not them personally, sparked
a gifts-grab controversy that prompted them to return some gifts.
On their disclosure forms, there weren't any gifts listed as having come
from Arafat, the Palestinian leader who has been strongly criticized -
nearly to the point of being ostracized - by President Bush for Mideast
violence.
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