Friday, February 27, 1998

The following are excerpts from articles which appeared in the
Egyptian English weekly, "Al-Ahram" of Al-Ahram Weekly 12 -18
February 1998

+++MENA's incidental victims" by Mona El-Fiqi

[Heading:] Hundreds of Egyptian labourers are returning jobless
from Qatar -- victims of the recent Egyptian-Qatari political rift.EGYPT:
QATAR PUNISHES EGYPT, IRAQ CRISIS