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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 30 July - 5 August 1998 Issue No.388
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Salvage project
Egypt and France are determined to save the peace process, but, as Dina Ezzat reports from Paris, a lot will depend on US political will

Summit step
Foreign Minister Amr Moussa arrived in Morocco yesterday to attend a two-day meeting of the Jerusalem Committee which will address Israel's decision to extend the limits of the municipality of Jerusalem

Peace talks flicker on
Even by the surreal standards of Oslo, the fog currently engulfing the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations will soon be so thick as to be quite impenetrable. Graham Usher in Jerusalem peers through the surrounding haze

A place in the sun: The balconies of the house in Rod El-Farag, the setting of Youssri Nasrallah's latest film, are crowded between shots as the inhabitants seek respite from the stifling heat indoors The heat is on

Does your body feel as if its about to melt? The interminable heatwave is obviously to blame. Mariz Tadros tries to find out what Mother Nature is up to

Copts slam Wolf's 'crusade'

Coptic figures have rejected an attempt by an American Congressman to speak on their behalf about alleged religious persecution. Omayma Abdel-Latif reports

A major split in the Brotherhood?
Despite denials by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, the outlawed group appears to be facing a major internal split. Amira Howeidy investigates

Has Europe turned left?
Paris -- where the Left's heart is Uneasy coalitions between left-wing factions in France may ultimately do more to reshape European politics than Britain's designer retro-radicalism. Gavin Bowd reports from Paris		Yet another 'red' government in Europe? Never in post-war German history has a federal government been voted out of office. But, as Reinhard Hesse writes from Munich, this time it might all be very different

INSIDE
The hypocricy of it all Noam Chomsky	The tools of seduction Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri