ABSTRACT
The regime's critics continued to seek an alternative order, resorting to a variety of means — verbal as well as violent — to attain their ends. There was also a wave of political assassination attempts by Muslim radicals and Nasserites around the middle of the year. The elections, the Egyptian leadership felt, reinforced the democratic legitimacy of the regime and would remove the obstacles to Husni Mubarak's reelection in October. The Egyptian Government continued to pressure the Administration to show more flexibility and alleviate the burden. The protracted process of Egypt's "return to the Arab fold" culminated, in late 1987, in a dramatic move by a large group of Arab states to resume formal relations with Cairo. The convention of the Islamic Conference Organization summit in Kuwait, in January, offered an opportunity for ample expression of the improvement in Egypt's regional standing.
