Arabic News Daily Page for 9/23/1997
Daily Edition - Tuesday, September 23, 1997
- U.S. embassy in Cairo denies false reports
The U.S embassy in Cairo denied reports which appeared in the press recently claiming that, for political reasons, the US embassay deliberatly avoided booking the US secretary of state Madeleine Albright into Helnan Palestinian Hotel in Alexandria. Egypt, Politics, 9/23/1997 - Israel's Koor faces hard times ahead.
With the deterioration peace process between Israel and Palestinians, Koor industries of Israel is expected to witness some very hard times. Regional, Business, 9/23/1997 - Increase in Jordanian tourism
The Jordanian Tourism Minister Aqil Beltagy stated that the tourism sector contributed 11% of the Jordanian gross product through the first 7 months of the current year with a 4% increase. Jordan, Economics, 9/23/1997 - Arab investment in Yemen heading toward $1 billion
The deputy director of the Yemeni Chamber of Industrial Trade Unions declared that the volume of Arab investments in Yemen will reach $1 billion by the end of the century, a $500 million increase. Yemen, Economics, 9/23/1997 - Environmental catastrophe endangers Kuwait
Factories in the Shuiba industrial area used large quantities of impure fuel in operating their machines which resulted in accumulating nitrogen and dioxide gases in high density in the higher levels of the atmosphere and started to form white and yellow clouds over the skies of the capital. Kuwait, Local, 9/23/1997 - Egypt requests Israel pay $30 million
Egypt estimated the volume of compensation that it requests from Israel at $30 million for exploiting the Egyptian resources during the years of the Sinai occupation after the 1967 aggression. Egypt, Economics, 9/23/1997 - Egyptian Presidents Naser and Sadat in the Egyptian cinema
Two films about presidnets are currently being shot in Egypt, one of which depicts the life of the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Naser and the other which tackles important phases in the life of the late President Anwar Sadat. Egypt, Culture, 9/23/1997 - Lebanese resistance men shell Israeli positions
A group of Lebanese national resistance men machine-gunned a concentration of Israeli occupation troops in al Dahra position inside the occupied zone of south Lebanon. Lebanon, Military, 9/23/1997 - Syrian vice president confers with British parliament member on peace process
Talks dealt with the situation in the region, the development of the peace process, and the role of the Israeli government in blocking this process. Syria, Politics, 9/23/1997 - Amman aviation conference Jordan, Local, 9/23/1997
- GCC meeting on weapons, explosives
Recommendations will be delivered to the interior ministers in their 6th meeting, scheduled to be held in Qatar next November. Gulf Region, Politics, 9/23/1997 - The 1998 budget will be discussed tomorrow
The growing treasury deficit and the new tax proposals will be, according to sources, the center of the discussion. Lebanon, Economics, 9/23/1997