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...Egypt I found a surprising democratization of the country's political processes, with President Hosni Mubarak pressing forward with reforms; during my visit, his associates and the multiple opposition forces were also marshaling their strength for the April 6 elections. Egypt's news media have been given unprecedented freedom, and in my wide-ranging discussions I found uniform concern about the nation's economic plight and strong and healthy public and private assessments of Mubarak's administration. Although one private opinion poll shows that more than 80% of the people approve the peace treaty with Israel, many Egyptians feel that...
...among their Arab neighbors, 7 million Egyptians went to the polls last week to elect 448 members to the national parliament. More than 3,600 candidates from six political parties vied for seats in the People's Assembly in the country's most serious campaign ever. As expected, President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party maintained its overwhelming majority in the legislature by winning 75% of the vote, thus virtually ensuring Mubarak a second six-year term when the Assembly nominates a President in October. An Islamic fundamentalist alliance of three parties, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, polled...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is concerned that the violence might mar next month's parliamentary elections, urged his countrymen last week to "use your heads" and ignore "rumormongers who would destabilize Egypt." Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior contended that the puzzling crosses were formed by dye stains in the synthetic fabrics used in Muslim dress...
Relations between Egypt and its unruly neighbor Libya are not the best. Just last month Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would shake the hand of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi only if it were "not booby-trapped." Last week relations got worse when five Libyan air-force men flew their American-built C-130 military cargo plane to Abu Simbel in southern Egypt and requested political asylum...
...some of Khashoggi's business interests flagged, his somewhat quixotic interest in diplomacy seemed to rise. He came up with the idea, in 1985, of bringing Palestinians and Israelis together for peace talks through a steering committee of American, Egyptian and Jordanian officials. Later he accompanied Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein when they visited the U.S. in 1985. Khashoggi proposed a $300 billion fund to develop the area, a kind of Marshall Plan that would serve as an incentive for peace negotiations. Late in 1985, using his DC-8, he visited eight heads of state...