51.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo late Monday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on an Arab summit and the Middle East peace process.

52.   Palestinians want Arab summit regardless of Israeli answer to U.S.

53.   President Hosni Mubarak and Sheik Hamad discussed a proposed Arab summit and other regional political and economic issues, Information Minister Safwat el-Sherif said after their meeting.

54.   Presidents Bashar Assad of Syria and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt called for an Arab summit to discuss the latest crisis.

55.   A decision may take some time, although the aim is to reach one before an Arab summit in late March.

56.   A Gulf Arab summit which opens Saturday in Qatar is likely to be overshadowed by an increasingly acrimonious territorial dispute between the host nation and its neighbor Bahrain.

57.   A full Arab summit has not convened since before the Iraqi invasion.

58.   A Gulf Arab summit opened Saturday with two members locked in a bitter dispute and half of the leaders absent.

59.   A Libyan official delivered to President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday a message from Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi in which he calls for an Arab summit.

60.   Abdullah also wants Arab nations to adopt it at an Arab summit scheduled for later this month in Lebanon.