Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual series of high-level conferences in the area. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev may have canceled his Middle Eastern trip for real or diplomatic reasons of health (see story page 35), but he was scarcely missed. The Shah of Iran, intent on reinforcing Arab ties, flew to Amman for two days with Jordan's King Hussein and on to Cairo for five more days with President Sadat...
Zaid Al-Rifai, Premier Amman, Jordan...
...enough and fast enough that Kissinger was forced to revise the flight schedule. As his blue-and-white Air Force 707 lifted off from Rome for Cairo last week, newsmen traveling with Kissinger were told by State Department officials that his calls at the Egyptian capital, and at Riyadh, Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem, were "working visits" rather than "official visits"-the description of previous stops on his aerial caravan...
...nagging omens as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew from Washington last week for a seven-day journey of mediation through the Middle East, his sixth such trek in the past two years. Kissinger reached Cairo on the first leg of his flight to seven capitals (the others: Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Algiers and finally Rabat) during the Moslem penitential month of Ramadan. The Secretary of State was unable to meet with fasting President Anwar Sadat until after sundown; Kissinger thus had to while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service agent...
Scarcely five months ago, following Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's triumphant shuttle spectacular between Israel, Egypt and Syria, chances for a Middle East peace looked unbelievably bright. This week, as Kissinger undertakes another flying tour to Cairo, Damascus, Amman and Jerusalem, hopes for a settlement have been dangerously tarnished. One reason is that no one seems to know how to solve the problem of the displaced Palestinians-including the Palestinians themselves...