Egyptian  President-elect Mohamed Morsi continues to settle in as the world  watches wondering how the power struggle with the ruling miltary command  will end. While US Senators offer cautious optimism. Morsi is slated to  be sworn in on Saturday.

Presidential Loser Skips Out: Ahmed  Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and loser of the  presidential runoff, left Egypt Tuesday with most of his family for the  United Arab Emirates hours after the prosecutor general opened an  investigation into allegations he wasted public funds during his 8-year term as a civil aviation minister in the ousted regime.

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Settling In: Egypt's  first democratically elected president moved into his offices Monday  and began the work of putting together a government, an adviser to the  transition team told CNN.

President-elect  Mohamed Morsi is picking people to serve in his Cabinet, but the  process is deliberate and "won't end in a day," said Jihad Haddad, the  adviser.

http://cnn.com/2012/06/25/world/africa/egypt-politics/

Seeking Diversity: Islamist  President-elect Mohamed Mursi began talks on Wednesday with groups  nervous about where he will take Egypt after the generals who have ruled  since Hosni Mubarak's fall make way for the republic's first civilian  leader.

U.S. Secretary of  State Hillary Clinton urged Mursi to bring diverse groups into his  government, mentioning Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, secular-minded  Egyptians and young people.

http://reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-egypt-politics-idUSBRE85Q19G20120627

Female  & Christian VPs: Christiane Amanpour is reporting that Morsi is  reaching out to tap a female and Christians to bring into his new  government.

There’s  been a dramatic change of fate in Egypt: Mohamed Morsi was once a  prisoner under President Hosni Mubarak. Now Morsi is president-elect of  Egypt, at the very same time Mubarak is serving his sentence in the  notorious Tora Prison. Now Egypt’s minorities wait to see how their  fates will change – among them, Coptic Christians and women.

Monday,  Morsi’s policy adviser, Ahmed Deif, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that  to allay minority fears, Morsi will execute a strategy of  “inclusiveness, inclusiveness, inclusiveness.”

Deif said one of  Morsi’s first steps will be to appoint a vice president who is Christian  and another Vice President who is a woman.

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/25/morsi-adviser-female-and-christian-vps-in-egypt/

Martial Law Nixed: A  move by Egypt's ruling generals to revive martial law was blunted  Tuesday by a court that struck down a government decree that had allowed  soldiers and military intelligence services to arrest civilians during  the nation's political turmoil.

The  decision by an administrative court, which followed an outcry from  human rights groups, was a rebuke to the ruling generals, who have  tightened their hold on the country to prevent newly elected Islamist  President Mohamed Morsi from accumulating power. The decree had given  the army authority to target activists protesting against the Supreme  Council of the Armed Forces.

http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-military-shafik-20120627,0,7921849.story

Senate Support: U.S.  senators are closely monitoring Egypt’s political transition, including  California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who heads the Senate Select  Committee on Intelligence.

“This  new Egyptian government can go either way. It can open to the ideas of  others," said Feinstein. "It can work to develop a vibrant economy for  the people, jobs for this very young country with so many young people.   Or it can turn inward into Sharia law and a much more fundamentalist  Muslim country. And that is the worry.”

Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, is taking a wait-and-see approach.

“Everyone  has concerns. But I will be traveling there [to Egypt] in the next  couple of months, and I look forward to sitting down with the new  president," said Corker.

"The  presidency - a lot of the powers that normally would reside there have  been taken away," Corker added. "The military is the main entity there  now, and I have concerns about that. Certainly, all of us want to see  them move to a real democracy.”

http://voanews.com/content/us-senators-voice-hopes-concerns-egypt-transition/1253019.html

From  the Corfield, the power struggle in Egypt continues. All we can do is  hope that Morsi does not abandoned the Camp David Accords. A move to do  so could put the US in the middle of yet another Mideastern war.