| Richard Perle, head of the Pentagon defense policy board, called on the European Union to abandon its support for Arafat. "The justification for funneling money to a corrupt regime was that it would somehow assist in producing peace. It is now very clear that is not doing that and I think anyone with any sense recognizes that it will not do that. The rationale is gone," he said. He added that he thought those who assumed that if Mr. Arafat went, his successor would be worse, were mistaken. "It may well be better," he said. |