ARAFAT & CO. SWORN IN

Yasser Arafat’s plane staged a flyover near — but not too near — disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman’s swearing-in as leader of his ancestral Palestinian homeland. In Jericho, Arafat led12 members of the Palestine National Authority in the oath of office for the self-rule government, despite complaints that Israeli officials had allowed Jewish militants to block thousands of Palestinians from the modest ceremony. Next stop for Arafat: Paris, where he’ll receive a U.N. Peace Prize with Israeli leaders Wednesday. He’s likely to use the platform to wangle slow-coming international financial aid for the new state.parpar