Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech at Basman Palace in Amman, Hussein addressed 500 of his subjects, including representatives of the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. The King proposed the creation of a new autonomous region of Palestine, consisting of the West Bank with its 620,000 Arab residents. Jordan and this new region would form a political entity called the United Arab Kingdom. "Any other Palestinian territories to be liberated" could also become part of the autonomous region, Hussein said. That was an oblique reference to the Gaza Strip (pop. 360,000), an Israeli-occupied Arab area that was administered...
...under his control prior to the rout of June 1967." Nonetheless she conceded that "the truth of the matter is that this plan affects Israel's most vital interests." The Knesset thereupon adopted a resolution urging the government to "continue to negotiate" with Jordan-a calculated signal to Amman...
...believe that Hussein would have proposed so far-reaching a plan "without some behind-the-scenes activities." In fact, high Jordanian and Israeli officials have held a series of secret meetings over the past few months. Hussein and Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon had lengthy talks in Amman in November. Mrs. Meir and the King followed these witha private meeting at which they discussed the prerequisites for peace between their nations...
...irony of an Arab boycott against Arabs infuriates Hussein. "I'm puzzled and I'm disillusioned," he told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in an interview at Amman's Basman Palace. "Nothing that has happened since 1967 makes any sense to me at all in terms of logic or what's in the Arab interest." There is no doubt that Libya's fiery Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is the man most responsible for the boycott. Among other things, Gaddafi offered Syrian President Hafez Assad $13 million to participate. (So far he has paid only...
...P.L.K.-an irreverent shorthand for "Plucky Little King" used by Western diplomats in Amman-is not bending under the boycott. "I think we are soldiering on quite happily," he told Scott. "The intention was to create discontent but it is having the opposite effect. Our people are more united than they have ever been. We will accept no form of interference in our internal affairs from any quarter." Indeed, the boycott is showing some cracks. Iraq once again permits Alia overflights and recently backed down and allowed Jordan Valley tomatoes into Baghdad, because the price of local products had gone...