Arabic News Front Page for 8/14/1997
Today's Headlines
- Israel's Barak wants talks with Assad
Syrian president Hafez Assad criticized the Israeli prime minister as an enemy of peace and praised the left-leaning Israeli opposition. Syria, Politics, 8/14/1997 - Israeli ambassador to US warns: Syria preparing for war
Eliyahu bin Elissar, the Israeli ambassador to the US, said that Syria is preparing for war even as it declares it is ready for peace talks. Syria, Politics, 8/14/1997 - Mubarak warns of Palestinian hunger revolution
At a gathering of university students Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned of a Palestinian hunger revolution if Israel continued the blockade it imposed on Palestinian self-rule areas. Egypt, Politics, 8/14/1997 - South Lebanon Army pulls out of Saidoun
The South Lebanon Army withdrew its forces from a position in the village of Saidoun, near Jezzine, in a move that is likely to return several villages to the Lebanese government's control. Lebanon, Military, 8/14/1997 - First Middle East lung transplant from living donor a success
In the first operation of its kind in the Middle East, surgeons at the St. George hospital in Achrafieh performed a successful lung transplant from a living donor. Lebanon, Medicine, 8/14/1997