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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24025-2004Feb8.html
Bush Aims for "Greater Mideast" Plan
(Washington Post) The Bush administration has launched an ambitious bid to promote democracy in the "greater Middle East" that will adapt a model used to press for freedoms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The initiative, to be announced at the G-8 summit hosted by President Bush at Sea Island, Ga., in June, would call for Arab and South Asian governments to adopt major political reforms, be held accountable on human rights - particularly women's empowerment - and introduce economic reforms.