Al-Ahram Weekly On-line   Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
7 - 13 May, 1998
Issue No.376
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President Mubarak Talking politics and reform
Bilateral economic cooperation and the deadlock in Middle East peace-making topped the agenda of the Mubarak-Gore meeting which took place on the eve of the London talks. Nevine Khalil reports on the political and economic outcome of the four-hour-long talks
US-Egyptian partnership check
Mubarak and Gore also reviewed progress in the 4-year-old US-Egyptian Partnership 		Interaction, past and future
With some 1,500 delegates attending, Cairo will be hosting next week a congress of the International Advertising Association. Rehab Saad reports on the final preparations
Tipper star for Imbaba health centre
While Al Gore was having talks with President Mubarak, his wife Tipper visited a USAID-funded maternal and child health centre at Imbaba. Mariz Tadros was there
LuxorWaiting for the future
Six months after the Hatshepsut Temple massacre, the city of Luxor still struggles with the ramifications. Fatemah Farag talks to Maj. Gen. Selmi Selim about government plans for the future and does some independent scouting to tap popular feeling

Navigating a centrist course
The efforts of the would-be founders of the Wassat Party to win legality are gaining momentum and so is the controversy surrounding the difficult birth of this new middle-of-the-road Islamist-oriented political force. Amira Howeidy reports

Afghanistan 'returnees' sentenced
The Supreme State Security Court has sentenced two Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya militants to death, sent 15 to jail and acquitted six others. Mona El-Nahhas reports