Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 14 - 20 May 1998 Issue No.377
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Closing Southern ranks The G-15 summit conveyed a clear message to the industrialised nations that developing countries must have a say in the new world economic order, writes Nevine Khalil

Related stories: 'A voice for the South' Northern barriers, southern business Critical lessons

Talking fixes Netanyahu and Albright were looking for a "creative fix" to the peace process in Washington talks yesterday. The results may spell disaster for Arafat, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem

Paris visit Key to the future Marking '48 India defiant

'A wake-up call' Madeleine Albright, defending Washington's Middle East policy, says there can be no lasting security in the region without hard choices US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, denying she will use pressure tactics but indicating impatience, was holding potentially fateful talks yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on an American formula for a West Bank withdrawal. --read on--

50 years of struggle KEYS TO THE PAST: Umm Saleh is in her late eighties. She hails from Jaffa, a town from which she was expelled in 1948, and now lives in a refugee camp in Gaza. And yet throughout the 50 years of her exile she has kept the key to her house in Jaffa in the vain hope of some day being allowed to return. In the four page supplement included in this issue Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, who covered the 1948 war from the battlefront, analyses, in an exclusive interview, the situation on the ground faced by the Arab forces as well as present prospects, and in words and pictures the consequences of half a century of dispossession and Israeli expansion and conquest are exposed