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...conference, which took place Tuesday and yesterday, attracted such important figures in the peace process as Moshe Arens, the former Israeli minister of foreign affairs and defense; Amre Moussa, the Egyptian minister of foreign affairs; and Nabeel Sha'ath, the minister of planning and international cooperation for the Palestine National Authority...
...working as a Pravda correspondent in the Middle East. At that time, he was not yet the President, but he had already become one of the most influential members in the Iraqi leadership. I also became closely acquainted with Aziz, who then served as editor in chief of Ath-Thawra, the main newspaper of the Baath Party...
...victory, other nations in the region are keenly interested in the shape of postwar Iraq. The country's three northern neighbors -- Syria, Turkey and Iran -- may have designs on Iraq. Syria's President Hafez Assad has long claimed to be the sole legitimate leader of the Pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, rival factions of which rule his country and Saddam's. Turkey has historical claims on Iraq's oil-rich Mosul province in the north. And Shi'ite-led Iran could easily justify a land snatch as a means of liberating the Shi'ite majority in Iraq, which is dominated...
...unrest. P.L.O. officials say they have provided food, medical equipment and money to the inhabitants of the Gaza refugee camps, though camp residents deny it. "The P.L.O. is the only institution these people can go to when they're in trouble or when they need help," says Nabil Sha'ath, a member of the P.L.O. central council. Still, the veteran P.L.O. leadership has found itself for the most part looking on from the sidelines...
...glamorous gloss for the image of the foreign correspondent. Heit has traditionally been a he-dashes from one cosmopolitan capital to another by first-class jetliner or Orient Express-style railway compartment; he puts up at such elegant hostelries as Claridge's in London or the Plaza Athénée in Paris, dining at Maxim's or its local equivalent; he hobnobs with celebrities and is on intimate terms with heads of government...