VOL.XLV

No31

5-August-2002

The Political Scene

Egypt is not happy with thepreliminary peace agreement between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement.Just as the debate in Washington over what to do about Iraq has becomepositively frenzied, the Iraqis have hinted they might allow the resumption ofUN weapons inspections. Syria has imposed harsh sentences ondissidents who participated in the short-lived Damascus spring.

Egypt Wary Of MachakosAgreement

It is anyones guess...