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EVEN IF wildly successful, the Madrid conference slated to begin tonight will have no effect on most of the conflicts that are lumped together as the Middle East problem. Lebanese Christians and Muslims will continue to kill each other. Religious fundamentalism will roll merrily along. Unrest, if not war, will mark the Maghreb. Iraq will still threaten any country within Scud range. Tens of millions of people from Damascus to Cairo to Tunis and beyond will be poor, illiterate and politically suppressed...
...Secretary of State James Baker, the first full-scale meeting between Israel and the Arabs in almost two decades. That cleared the way for a joint U.S.-Soviet announcement that Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would both attend the opening of the much anticipated parley next week in Madrid. They had already sent out formal invitations to the parties, who had all, more or less, said yes. Declared a plainly pleased Baker: "This is an important...
Officials at the White House were even more upbeat. George Bush plans to attend the conference for one day, give an opening speech, then depart on other business -- political business in Houston, where he will kick off his re-election campaign. But with the flying trip to Madrid, he can be seen as a catalyst for the process if negotiations succeed or, if they fail, as a man who gave peace his best shot. "This is a win-win situation," says a senior official...
...government would know it, and most of those who did would consider it their duty to cover up, obfuscate and, if necessary, lie. Nevertheless, whether the tale is true or not, many people might choose to believe it. The charges and countercharges to follow could rain on the Madrid conference...
...duration of the Damascus gathering was left open. But Arab diplomats said that if the ministers fail to agree on a unified stand by Friday, Israel's five neighbors' heads of state will hold a summit before the Madrid peace conference opens...