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Muslim elections, Part II.(The Week)(Brief article)

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MUSLIM ELECTIONS, PART II. A presidential election in Egypt is a foregone conclusion, and indeed Hosni Mubarak has just been elected to his fifth consecutive six-year term as president. All this time he has ruled by emergency decree, though the real emergency is his despotism. Bush policy is pushing the pace of events in the Middle East, and Mubarak had to consent to the unprecedented step of allowing other candidates to run against him, nine of them in all. He made sure to vet them. The only permitted Islamist, for example, was 90 years old and had a platform of ...

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