Arabic News Front Page for 8/18/1997
Today's Headlines
- Security to be tightened at Beirut airport
The president of the international Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Assad Kotaite, arrived in Lebanon with a plan to restructure security at Beirut Airport to satisfy complaints by the US Federal Aviation Authority. Lebanon, Local, 8/18/1997 - Israeli MIAs in Lebanon buried in Jewish cemetery in Damascus
Three Israeli soldiers declared missing in action in Lebanon 15 years ago are buried in a Damascus Jewish cemetery, Salah Tarif said. Syria, Politics, 8/18/1997 - Arab and untenable American pressure - on Doha
Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority and the United Arab Emirates have announced they will boycott the fourth Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economic summit—due to be held in Qatar in November—if Israel is represented. Regional, Politics, 8/18/1997 - Saudi Arabia and Yemen to US: No Doha, because of Israel
Arab diplomatic sources have stressed that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has sent a letter to US President Bill Clinton in which he informed him of Saudi Arabia's official decision not to participate in the economic summit scheduled to be held in Doha in November. Regional, Politics, 8/18/1997 - Gaddafi calls for Arab political, economic unity
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi ended the five-nation African Summit meeting in Tripoli to discuss closer ties in the region by saying that the five countries bordering the Sahara form a regional group. North Africa Region, Politics, 8/18/1997