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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 15 - 21 October 1998 Issue No.399
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Summit asymmetry
It is an open question whether an agreement on a West Bank withdrawal can be clinched at the US-hosted Arafat-Netanyahu summit opening today

Butcher as diplomat
Netanyahu has again signalled his intention to kill off the peace process by appointing Ariel Sharon, a mass murderer, as Israel's foreign minister. Khaled Amayreh writes from Jerusalem

Marred message
The UN Security Council hopes to persuade Iraq to let inspectors resume their work dismantling Baghdad's weapons programmes

Meeting a myth

David Blake sets the scene for a first night audience with the most famous Ethiopian princess of them all

After Ocalan Bomber ties Bush fires

Damascus
stresses dialogue
Syria has apparently agreed with Turkey to limit their dispute to allegations that Damascus is providing support to PKK fighters, writes Atef Saqr from Damascus

Ankara's war drums
beat softer
Egypt's efforts to defuse a possible military confrontation between Turkey and Syria appeared to have paid off. But, as Amberin Zaman reports from Ankara, Turkey is still pounding its chest

In Egypt's hands
Cairo followed up this week its initiative for dialogue between Damascus and Ankara, writes Nevine Khalil

50 Years of dispossession
Time to meet
the Mizrahim?
Shiko Behar

The October generation
Ibrahim Nafie

Operation Red Star, then and now
Gamil Mattar

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