Optimism grows as meeting site rises

Friday, May 17, 2002

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The setting: an enormous tent flown in from Germany, where it once housed exuberant Oktoberfest parties. The participants: hand-picked men from across the land and, by mandate, some women, too. The topic: the future of Afghanistan, still painfully uncertain.

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