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How fertile is the crescent?
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Jerusalem Post
11-14-1997
At the 1995 regional economic summit in Amman, Egypt and Qatar fought for the right to host the next annual event. So a compromise was struck: Cairo in 1996 and Doha in 1997.
That was then, this is now.
"We don't have that competition this time around," a senior Clinton administration official acknowledged the other day.
Gone is the heady atmosphere surrounding the groundbreaking Casablanca conference that was held ...
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