11 - 17 June 1998
Issue No.381
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 11 - 17 June 1998 Issue No.381 |
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Summit
in the making PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak said on Sunday that there were ongoing consultations
to convene an Arab summit, but that it was as yet undecided what the
summit's agenda will be. "We are waiting to see what our Palestinian
brethren want, then we will consult with other Arab leaders," Mubarak
told reporters after casting his vote in the Shura Council elections.
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Seeing
the light Mrs Suzanne Mubarak had a busy schedule this week: launching the Eighth
Annual Reading for All Festival, attending the graduation ceremony
of nursing school students, inaugurating a new ophthalmology hospital
and opening a training centre for the sightless. Rania Khallaf
tried to keep up |
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Armed
and dangerous As Israel continues to sink peace-making efforts and defy nuclear non-proliferation, the region waits for US intervention. Dina Ezzat assesses the mood in Cairo 'Peace
offensive' hits Cairo |
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| NDP
sweep in pallid poll The ruling NDP won a landslide victory in mid-term elections for the Shura Council, an upper house with no legislative powers. Gamal Essam El-Din reports |
Azhar
medicine debated A controversial law that cuts the four-year Azharite secondary school programme by one year has been approved by the People's Assembly |
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| NGO
law continues to stir up controversy The minister of social affairs will soon meet human rights activists in a bid to resolve the dispute over the draft NGO law. Mariz Tadros reports |
The contentious imprisonment penalty was dropped from a new law regulating the pharmacist profession, but pharmacists maintained their fight against the new law. Gihan Shahine reports |
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