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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 17 - 23 December 1998 Issue No.408
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More than moral support?
Although President Clinton claimed the peace process was back on track, he failed to persuade Israel to resume West Bank troop withdrawals

Beyond the honeymoon
Clinton's presence in Gaza is further confirmation of a rapprochement between the US administration and Arafat's PA to the status of a virtual pact, writes Graham Usher

United they stand?
Palestinian dissenters held meetings in Syria, Gaza and Ramallah to voice their opposition to the annulment of sections of their National Charter. Zeina Khodr reports from Damascus

'If not tomorrow, the day after'
The latest stand-off between Iraq and the UN over the inspection of a Baath Party office in Baghdad reflects Saddam Hussein's growing frustration that might, reports Al-Ahram Weekly's special correspondent, result in a shower of US cruise missiles

An end to all justice
Mustafa Kamel El-Sayed wonders where UNSCOM will draw the line

Kabila in Cairo
PRESIDENT of Democratic Congo Laurent Kabila began a three-day visit to Cairo on Saturday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak --read on--

Nafie
A shift in policy
Ibrahim Nafie

Success penalised
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Homeward bound
Salama A. Salama

Securing Occupation: The real meaning of the Wye River Memorandum
Paradoxically, the fruit of Oslo will perhaps be that the Palestinian struggle for justice will "return to the source," writes Norman G Finkelstein

Dune song
Aline Kazandjian rides a train across the desert, discovers the Forty Days' Route, and hears a mysterious clicking

Wonderfull wheels
Ahmed Abushadi