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...frosty winter, but the political indicators suggest that the country may be in for a long, hot summer. The presidential election scheduled for September is generating more interest and tension than ever, thanks to plans to amend the constitution to allow opposition candidates to run directly against President Hosni Mubarak. And even as Mubarak and his challengers wage what is certain to be a contentious political campaign, terrorists have struck in Cairo three times in less than a month...
...caused by the gunmen who killed 58 foreigners in a 1997 attack at an ancient temple in Luxor. That was the last assault in a five-year onslaught by Egyptian extremist factions such as Islamic Jihad and Gemaat Islamiyah, whose leaders declared a truce after being crushed by the Mubarak government's harsh security clampdown...
...Cairo and detonated his bomb. The homemade device, apparently patched together with explosive powder from fireworks and a few handfuls of nails, decapitated the bomber and injured several foreign tourists and Egyptian passersby. The police believe that the symbol-rich site of Yassin's attack - a central square facing Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen and a skyscraper hotel named for Egypt's most powerful ancient pharaoh, Ramses - was chosen at random...
...Also in Amman, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak showed up for a private five-hour meeting with Hussein. The two moderate Arab leaders had a couple of important items on their agenda: how to reinvigorate the peace process and what to do about the role of Arafat and the P.L.O. in the wake of the Achille Lauro debacle. Later, Mubarak indicated his hope that the P.L.O. leader could be persuaded to stay in line with the objectives of the peace process...
During his Times interview, King Hussein took pains to compliment Peres as a "man of vision," even while keeping a wary distance from the Israeli peace offer. Both Hussein and Egypt's Mubarak were sorely tried by the P.L.O. during the Achille Lauro ordeal. Hussein was further irked at the cancellation of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives; the session was called off after one of the P.L.O. members refused to endorse the right of Israel to exist. But Hussein last week carefully insisted that "at the right time under...