Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State's tour de force was truly breathtaking. In a month abroad he had logged 24,230 miles, visited Jerusalem 16 times and Damascus 13, and made side trips to Algiers, Alexandria, Amman, Riyadh, Cairo and Nicosia.* Praise for Kissinger was all but universal. In the U.S., a Harris poll taken before disengagement was announced showed that 85% of Americans questioned considered that he was doing a "good to excellent" job. It was the highest rating ever recorded for anyone from the Executive Branch...
Algiers to Alexandria to Jerusalem to Damascus, then back to Alexandria to Amman to Jerusalem to Damascus. Only one airplane flies that kind of Middle East shuttle: Air Force Two, with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger aboard. Last week and this week, the blue and white Boeing 707 was once again flying its circular itinerary as Kissinger attempted to work out disengagement between Israel and Syria. This time, it was not a smooth flight...
...chances for easing its oil shortage, not to mention his own prestige as a peacemaker, rest on a successful beginning of negotiations in Geneva. Last week Kissinger was preparing for a second trip in as many months to the Middle East. The Secretary of State will visit Cairo, Amman and Damascus-if the Syrians agree to receive him-as well as Tel Aviv and then Geneva...
...next morning it was on to Amman. Kissinger was outwardly buoyant. Yet he was also plainly worried about how the Israeli government would respond to Sisco's explanation of the cease-fire plan. Kissinger went to lunch with King Hussein, who took him for a brief whirl over the city in his helicopter before chauffeuring him to the airport. Quipped the Secretary: "If it weren't for the honor, I would rather have walked...
...nations had assembled in Israel. Another 400 managed to get into Egypt. Most of them followed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's land route from Benghazi in Libya, arriving in Cairo bone-weary and -dry after an 800-mile drive by taxicab across the desert (fare: $400). Damascus and Amman played reluctant hosts to smaller press contingents...