Word: mubarak
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Setting off from Washington on Tuesday, the Clintons flew first to Cairo. President Hosni Mubarak and his wife met them at the airport and then sat up talking until after 2 a.m. It was not just a social call; Mubarak played a pivotal role as counselor in the week's events. He had invited Arafat in for a chat and pressed him to make a public statement condemning the recent wave of terror attacks on Israel. When Arafat was later asked whether he backed peace or the extremists of Hamas, he duly said, "My choice is the peace, the peace...
...this week, as first scheduled, the TV cameras will shoot some better visuals. Clinton witnessing the signing of a peace treaty in a cleared minefield on the Israeli-Jordanian border. Addressing, separately, the Jordanian and Israeli parliaments. Visiting U.S. troops in Kuwait. Hobnobbing in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, in Saudi Arabia with King Fahd and in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Looking very presidential throughout, no doubt, and maybe winning more votes for Democratic candidates than he could have by campaigning at home...
...serving as a go-between. "This wasn't a singular, aberrant event that we set out to sensationalize, and it wasn't our presence that caused the child physical jeopardy," says Steve Haworth, CNN vice president for public relations. When asked about the CNN segment, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made the improbable statement that he thought the practice had disappeared in his country...
Faced with these dire statistics, the Egyptian government began to explore family planning in the early 1980s, at first cautiously and then with increasing boldness. In fact, the U.N. gave President Hosni Mubarak its 1994 population award because Egypt cut its growth rate from more than 3% in 1985 to just over 2% last year...
Increasing the tension level were fears that dissent could turn into violence. Islamic fundamentalists who are seeking to overthrow Mubarak warned delegates not to come to Cairo. In response, the government deployed a 14,000- strong police force with the sole assignment of protecting the expected 20,000 conference participants. But no one could guarantee peace in the streets -- or any kind of meaningful consensus inside the meeting hall...