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Bush said he conferred by telephone with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Arab leaders, and said he was encouraged by their efforts to find an "Arab answer" to the problem...
EGYPT. Part democrat, part autocrat, President Hosni Mubarak is steering a zigzag course. He has allowed opposition parties to flower, and tolerates perhaps the most feisty press in the Arab world. At the same time, he has invoked emergency arrest-and-detention laws to crack down on radical fundamentalists. Mubarak's party controls the national assembly; the opposition benches are dominated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who had to run under other parties since the Brotherhood is banned...
...Mubarak is expected to dissolve the parliament and schedule new elections for the fall. The fairness of those elections may hinge on how Mubarak reads last week's returns in Algeria. He will hardly be alone among the region's leaders if he concludes that the threat of radical fundamentalism is too explosive to risk legitimate elections. Then again, he may take a lesson from Eastern Europe and recognize that countries tend to get the revolutions they deserve...
Greeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose nation has a peace treaty with Israel, North Korea's self-anointed Great Leader proclaimed their "common ideologies of anti-imperialism and anti-Semitism...
...Administration and Middle East moderates, including Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, feel that the best antidote to Saddam's potential barbarity is to keep him engaged in dialogue. In November 1988 the U.S. used quiet diplomacy to extract from Saddam a promise that he would not be first, in future, to use chemical weapons. Despite his confrontational tone in Baghdad last week, Saddam signed on to a watered-down communique that fell short of his call for oil sanctions against the U.S. That was only a minor victory for the region's moderates, who have much...