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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas flew to the Arab Summit in Riyadh today leaving behind angry Palestinian comrades in his wake. Abbas wimped out on them, they say. Before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived last Saturday in the Middle East, Abbas was coached by Fatah's governing Central Committee on how to talk tough with the Americans - not a specialty for Abbas, who is convivial but evasive...
...Central Committee member told TIME that Abbas was prepped to remind Rice that most Palestinians opposed his meeting the U.S. delegation and to say: "You've come to me with a list of Israeli demands. Where is your list of our demands for the Israelis?" Abbas supposedly agreed. It was only after TIME published these remarks as we admit here, and the State Department denied that Abbas had confronted Rice, that the influential Fatah chiefs learned their boss had not followed through. "Frankly, I'm not surprised," one angry committee member remarked afterwards, "Abbas doesn't respect...
...voter turnout, Kifaya leader George Ishak put the number at no more than 3%; the truth is probably somewhere in between, hardly evidence of an enthusiastic electorate. Already Amnesty International had denounced the amendments as "the greatest erosion of rights in 26 years" and Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice called them "a really disappointing outcome...
...South Asia made millions of dollars. And in the wake of Woolmer's death, a number of former players alleged that the 2000 inquiry had merely scratched the surface, and left the game still in the clutches of the betting mafias. Former South Africa captain and Woolmer associate Clive Rice said Woolmer had previously shared with him extensive information about players and officials involved in match-fixing. Rice had "absolutely no doubt" that the Pakistan coach was killed because he knew too much...
...Ultimately, Rice believes the Arab states are crucial to pushing Hamas toward the center. And thus Egypt is her first stop. She arrived in Aswan on Saturday afternoon, and she is meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Arab leaders over the rest of the weekend and into Monday. Soon after touching down, she went behind closed doors to talk with Arab foreign ministers and intelligence chiefs. Rice will urge Arab leaders, who are scheduled to hold a summit in Riyadh on Wednesday, March 28, to revive a 2002 proposal by the Arab League to recognize Israel in exchange...