A Palestinian spokesman said he told them that Egypt would work to get Israeli action against the Palestinians stopped.

The Palestinian spokesman insisted that this was not a new position and that Mr. Arafat had made similar statements before.

The language of "occupation" has allowed Palestinian spokesmen to obfuscate this history.

A Palestinian spokesman said 3 of his people were killed and 10 wounded.

Palestinian spokesmen, painting a bleaker picture.

But Palestinian spokesmen remained skeptical.

The ignored Kurds would leap at the chance for autonomy and cultural identity long spurned as insufficient by heavily publicized Palestinian spokesmen.

Palestinian spokesmen say that they want this interim solution to be followed by creation of an independent Palestinian state, which could become confederated with Jordan.

Responding to the vote, a Palestinian spokesman, Saeb Erekat, said it "unmasked many things."

A Palestinian spokesman said there were no casualties in the attack.