BAGHDAD, Iraq - With Iraq's constitutional talks at a decisive stage, the country's majority Shiites awaited a response Friday from Sunni Arabs to what they said was a final compromise offer to break the impasse over the draft charter.
The Shiites submitted the offer after the personal intervention of President Bush, who faces rising criticism from the U.S. public and his own party about the conduct of the Iraq war.
"We will not be easy with this point at all," al-Maliki said. He said the Sunnis were being tough in defending the rights of former Baath party members and "it is regrettable to us that the Sunnis and the Baath are in the same pot."
Sunni negotiator Kamal Hamdoun said only that he and his Sunni colleagues were "studying the suggestions that we received." Asked when they would respond, he said: "Maybe tomorrow" and refused to say more.
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