 |
Al-Ahram Weekly 11 - 17 November 1999 Issue No. 455 
|
||
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 |
| ||
|
Al-Ahram Weekly 11 - 17 November 1999 Issue No. 455
|
||
| Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 |
| ||
Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Features Profile Travel Books Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters 
Medical trip
THE SENIOR Middle Eastern political analyst Mohamed Hassanein Heikal travelled to the United States on Tuesday where he is expected to undergo surgery related to problems with the right kidney. Heikal, who has been under observation and treatment for the past few weeks, will be operated on in Cleveland, Ohio, by Dr Andrew Novic, an international authority in the field.
Al-Ahram Weekly wishes him a speedy recovery.
Syrian track
QUOTING Senior Syrian and Israeli officials the Israeli daily Maariv said agreement on an opening formula for renewing peace talks between Israel and Syria was close following recent meetings in Paris and messages exchanged between French President Jacques Chirac, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad's son Bashar. The formula is expected to include a reference to 4 June, 1967 as the basis for talks. The date is crucial to Damascus, which claims that before the US-sponsored peace talks were broken off in February 1996 it received an Israeli pledge to withdraw from the whole of the Golan Heights captured in the 1967 War, AFP reported.
Hillary race
HILLARY Clinton was scheduled to arrive in Tel Aviv last night on a four-day visit to Israel and Jordan which will inevitably have campaign overtones. Mrs Clinton is deep into an as yet undeclared Senate race against New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Her agenda is heavy with child-rearing and health care concerns but whatever she says or does is likely be construed as a sales pitch to Jewish voters, a crucial constituency in her anticipated New York Senate bid. Mrs Clinton has staked out positions that differ from official US policies on the status of Jerusalem.
Settlers out
IN A three hour, dawn operation Israeli soldiers yesterday evicted settlers from the Maon farm outpost in the West Bank
Under a compromise negotiated with the Council of Jewish Settlements, 12 outposts erected without government permission are to be uprooted and 30 to remain.
Meanwhile, the Israeli cabinet yesterday voted 17-1 with one abstention to go ahead with the transfer of land agreed under the revised interim peace deal signed in September.
