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...King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan delivered his first address to an American university on Friday, speaking to a packed ARCO Forum about Jordan's role in restoring peace, prosperity and security to the Middle East...
...Yasser Arafat as they try to reach a peace settlement, but it?s not about to put its own stability on the line for its neighbors. So although Jordanian authorities on Wednesday showed themselves willing by arresting three senior leaders of the anti-peace-process Hamas organization, King Abdullah?s government will stop short of a full-scale confrontation with Hamas. "Jordan itself has no problem with Hamas, and this clampdown is being undertaken on behalf of Israel and the Palestinians," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "But Jordan will always put its own stability above the interests...
...King Abdullah: The 37-year-old army general has been King of Jordan since February...
...PEOPLE'S KING According to legend, Henry V mingled with his soldiers incognito on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. In the spirit of Prince Hal, Jordan's 37-year-old King Abdullah last week wore a fake white beard and posed as a TV reporter to interview his subjects. Father would be proud...
European pressure on Turkey to commute the death sentence of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan looks set to grow, but that pressure may, paradoxically, help seal his fate. Nationalist passions may make it even more difficult for the government to back down on hanging Ocalan in the face of violent protests by his supporters and pressure from Europe. Germany led the European chorus warning Ankara that hanging Ocalan might deal a death blow to Turkey?s ambitions to enter the European Union, and it was easy to see why Bonn was nervous: Turkish-owned businesses were firebombed across Germany overnight...