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...with foreign dignitaries is a routine part of being President, but some stick to the routine more than others. While his predecessor was prone to off-the-cuff remarks during the White House photo op, W. rarely deviates from the script. The names may change (last week Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak), but the song remains the same...
...summit showed the limits of Saddam's comeback. What mattered was not the readiness to lift sanctions, but the continuing insistence that Saddam abide by U.N. resolutions designed to curb his military ambitions. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II were the most willing to loosen the economic noose, but they insisted Saddam accept his U.N. obligations and seemed stunned by his obstinacy. "Iraq," said influential Egyptian columnist Ibrahim Nafie, "does not want to help itself...
...Hopes for a summit, which was to be hosted by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and was aimed at getting the two sides down to business, evaporated after the Palestinian leadership sniffed at the Clinton proposals and asked the White House for more details...
Washington's scramble to repair Israel's diplomatic bridges to the Arab world may be too little, too late. Defense Secretary William Cohen met Wednesday with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and implored him to reverse Cairo's decision to recall its ambassador from Israel. But having made the dramatic diplomatic gesture in protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza Monday night in retaliation for the bombing of a school bus, the Egyptian leader can't very easily reverse it now - not even under pressure from the U.S., which pays Egypt some $2 billion a year to be Israel...
...used the one-hour flight to Egypt to make the last preparations. We landed, and immediately we were taken to the conference center, and the prime inister met the president of Egypt (Hosni Mubarak). It was very clear that Mubarak wanted very much to succeed at the summit. "We can't afford a failure," he said. "It would have a very negative effect...