President rules out customs cuts on imported cars. Qabous starts visit to Egypt today. Foreign Minister meets Finnish official, speaks to Libyan Minister on Lockerbie. South Korea s Prime Minister arrives in Cairo. Mubarak to visit Italy, Germany, US, China.
More chances await French investors in Egypt.
Cairo, Rabat agree to boost trade, business ties. Virtually everybody agrees that Saddam Hussein s despicable and shuddering deeds qualify him for the title of the world s most notorious despot. But whether this necessitates foreign intervention to depose him remains totally another story. All the same, the US has made no bones about its plan to oust the Iraqi regime and is painstakingly seeking to rally Gulf support to this end. The US Administration has recently dispatched two officials to tour the Gulf to market its scheme to remove Saddam by making sense of the otherwise-fractured Iraqi opposition in exile.