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...derail the Gulf boom. The session was co-hosted by TIME and the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. For all of the panelists, political stability was a fundamental concern. Citing the war in Iraq, the turmoil in Lebanon and the failure to achieve peace in Israel, Mohammed Shafik Gabr, chairman of Egypt's Artoc Group for Investment & Development, warned that "things are not getting any better" in the broader region...
Some Arab commentators have also recently questioned the unofficial involvement of thousands of Arabs in the Afghan wars. "The time has come to let Afghanistan be," wrote Shafik Nazim al-Ghabra in the Kuwaiti daily al-Ra'i al-Aam on Nov. 23. "The time has come to stop exporting the Arab world's problems to neighboring societies." That paper has been critical of the Taliban from the start, but al-Ghabra's article was particularly bitter. Other Muslim journalists have written articles in the past few weeks about the misinterpretations of the Koran that led some of those Arabs...
...relative stature of the three other F.M.L.N. chieftains remains a matter of speculation. There is Shafik Jorge Handal, 53, general secretary of the Salvadoran Communist Party and commander of its armed wing, the 1,500-member Armed Forces of Liberation. The son of Palestinian immigrants, Handal has been the F.M.L.N.'s main go-between with the Soviet Union and Cuba. He first led the Communists into armed action in 1979. Because of his standing in Moscow, Handal's influence in guerrilla councils may be out of proportion to the size of his forces...
...Adversaries large and small test our will and seek to confound our resolve." So said Ronald Reagan in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last July. At that moment, half a world away, a Communist leader from El Salvador, Shafik Jorge Handal, was visiting Soviet-bloc countries in search of arms for Ms country's leftist guerrillas. In retrospect, the chain of events that made El Salvador the first focus of the new Administration's foreign policy seems inexorable...
...countryside, the "final offensive" launched by the guerrillas' Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has been halted by repeated military onslaughts. One F.M.L.N. leader, Communist Party Secretary-General Jorge Shafik Handel, admitted last week to a "temporary tactical retreat." The offensive has not been defeated, however...