Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 30 July - 5 August 1998 Issue No.388
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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	Hussein illness raises succession concerns Jordanians are greatly worried by King Hussein's admission to having lymphoma. As Al-Ahram Weekly's special correspondent reports from Amman, the real source of panic may be the question of succession
A Palestinian state in 1999? Every time Palestinian-Israeli talks face a serious crisis, Yasser Arafat waves the threat of declaring a Palestinian state unilaterally in May 1999. Sherine Bahaa investigates the possibilities
Encounter with a fighter Eqbal Ahmad, in the second of three articles on Lebanon following a recent visit, talks to Hizbullah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on the group's ideology and struggle against Israel

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Attack on Khatami The honeymoon period for the moderate party in Iran seems at an end as the ruling conservative clerics launch an all-out offencive, Safa Haeri writes

Time for The Hague? Although the US and Britain have announced they are ready to see the two Libyan Lockerbie suspects stand trial in The Hague, there are still many obstacles to be overcome. Hoda Tawfik in Washington and Rasha Saad in Cairo, report

Colonel's chickens come to Syria When KFC first opened in Damascus in mid-May, the move was seen as yet another sign of openness towards the West. But, as Al-Ahram Weekly 's special correspondent reports, Syrian officials soon had a change of heart

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