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The week ended with stalemate--and the two longest-deployed network foreign correspondents on this story, CBS' Elizabeth Palmer and NBC's Richard Engel, were willing to look into their crystal balls. CBS' Palmer suggested that "ultimately, the business community" might be the political bloc to force Mubarak from power. "This country has been brought to a standstill by the upheaval and many people are losing millions." NBC's Engel saw the calming of tensions as a deliberate change in tactics from the regime. "For now Hosni Mubarak's strategy may be just to wait out the protests, if he can."
Unlike Engel, ABC's David Muir divined no such future indicators from the square's calmer mood: "With so many questions about what could come next, the people in that square have not gotten there yet. They are just savoring the victory that they feel they have witnessed here this week."
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