ARAB leader Yasser Arafat was found alive in the Sahara Desert after his plane crash-landed during a sand storm over Libya.
Officials of the Palestine Liberation Organisation said their leader, along with nine companions and a crew of three, were missing for 15 hours before being spotted by a US satellite. World leaders had feared that if he had died, he would have left a vacuum in the tense politics of the Middle East.
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