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U.S. Diplomats Urge Regimes to Embrace Change to Block Islamist Radicals
(Wall Street Journal) Jay Solomon and Bill Spindle - The Obama administration intensified diplomatic pressure on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to initiate wide-ranging political overhauls. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials have decided not to seek wholesale political change in Cairo and other Arab capitals, but instead to prod their allies into embracing reform movements that, so far, appear to be largely secular and grass-roots in nature.