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Arab activists meeting in Bahrain on Tuesday to press for democratic change find themselves caught between battling "dictator" regimes and U.S.-led initiatives for reform. While some activists at a Manama conference insisted that Arab democratic movements are too weak to implement reforms without external help.

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