Article: Giuliani has earned his stripes.(Rudy Giuliani )(OPINION)(Viewpoint essay)

In October, 1995, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani strolled into Lincoln Center to attend a concert of the New York Philharmonic. He was among hundreds of diplomats and other dignitaries gathered there for a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations. After exchanging pleasantries with a number of them, the mayor turned aghast at whom he saw moving down the aisle toward the front of the stage: Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO.

The arrival of the founder of modern terrorism caught the mayor by surprise, but as if by reflex, he did what no one else in the concert hall would have even contemplated. He ordered Arafat and his entourage out of the ...

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