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The Envelopes Have Stopped


(Ha'aretz) Arnon Regular - A., a member of the Palestinian presidential guard, said last week in Ramallah, "everything has changed. To you it looks slow, but for us everything is changing rapidly." For years the members of the force were accustomed to receiving envelopes containing sums of money in cash - as their salary or as a bonus to their salary, according to their status and degree of closeness to Arafat's inner circle. The envelopes have stopped. Since the elections, the Muqata and the PA ministries have been abuzz with rumors of an approaching wave of dismissals or retirements of dozens of directors of ministries and fictitious deputy ministers who received salaries during the Arafat era and were a burden on the PA coffers.
2005-01-28 00:00:00
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