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...Cairo, where the Mubarak government is once again engaged in its familiar ritual of stealing elections, the Florida contretemps was greeted as a familiar symptom. "People here welcomed the announcement that Bush had won because Joe Lieberman being vice president is not something people here would welcome at all," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "So when it was announced that Bush had in fact not won, many people were joking that they're messing with the election in America as well, because they're very busy doing that here right now. One supporter of an opposition candidate...
...Cairo, where the Mubarak government is once again engaged in its familiar ritual of stealing elections, the Florida contretemps was greeted as a familiar symptom. "People here welcomed the announcement that Bush had won because Joe Lieberman being vice president is not something people here would welcome at all," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "So when it was announced that Bush had in fact not won, many people were joking that they're messing with the election in America as well, because they're very busy doing that here right now. One supporter of an opposition candidate...
...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...
...progress. By 11 p.m. Albright believed she had agreement from the two sides on steps they would take to halt the fighting and keep it from flaring up again. Arafat even softened his demand for an international probe. But outside, diplomacy had become a three-ring circus. President Hosni Mubarak had already booked Albright, Barak and Arafat for Egypt the next day so he could preside over the negotiations. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had flown to Paris, eager to jump in. And French President Jacques Chirac sat in the Elysee Palace waiting for his turn...
...Barak could leave by the afternoon, they hadn't booked hotels. But by 2 a.m. Barak decided to fly back to Israel. Thursday evening, Albright's jet cruised back to Washington. Groggy from only an hour's sleep the night before, she had kept her morning appointment with Mubarak. (Arafat showed up as well...