ISMAILIA, Egypt — President Hosni Mubarak pledged Saturday to make every effort to regain the Sinai desert enclave of Taba from Israel.
"I promise you I will do my best to get Taba back," he told reporters during a tour of this Suez Canal city.
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Mubarak in Taba Vow
Israel retained the 700-yard coastal strip when it handed back the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in 1982.
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