Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permission for the interview was suddenly granted, visas were ready at the Soviet embassy in Washington for Corporate Editor Henry Grunwald and Managing Editor Ray Cave. Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan received his summons to Moscow while in Jordan on another assignment. No problem: a telegram from Moscow to Amman was all that was needed to clear Duncan's entry into the Soviet Union...
...themselves drawing analogies and making contrasts with what they had seen in other countries undergoing conflict and change. For Rome Correspondent Roland Flamini, the turmoil at Tehran's Inter-Continental Hotel vividly recalled for him two weeks in 1970, when he was trapped in the Inter-Continental in Amman while Jordanian troops fought with Palestinian guerrillas. Says Flamini: "The first two people I met in the [Tehran] hotel lobby had also been in Amman. We talked about whether or not we should fill our bathtubs in preparation for another siege that would cut off our water. We concluded such...
...peace talks stalemate is another temporary chill in relations between Jerusalem and Washington. The Israelis are worried about what they feel is a pro-Arab, or at least a pro-Egyptian, tilt on the part of the U.S. As a prime example, they cite an October visit to Amman by Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders, who gave Jordan's King Hussein the official U.S. answers to 14 questions that the King had raised about the Camp David accords. Saunders, at various times a CIA, National Security Council and State Department specialist in Middle East affairs, is a respected...
Last week Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders was dispatched to Amman, carrying answers to a series of questions that King Hussein had asked the Carter Administration in the aftermath of Camp David. The subject of East Jerusalem was skirted in the Camp David accords because no agreement was possible; but Saunders assured Hussein that Washington-which maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv-still believes that Israel's jurisdiction over East Jerusalem is illegal. Saunders also said the U.S. anticipates a restoration of Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza following the five-year period of autonomy...
...Yasser Arafat, even undertook a sudden trip to Jordan to try to persuade their longtime enemy, King Hussein, to boycott the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. It was an extraordinary idea?Hussein and Arafat had not met on Jordanian soil since 1970, the year that the P.L.O. virtually seized control of Amman until the King attacked and expelled them. Hussein quickly rejected the new ploy. "The King," said a Jordanian official, "will not respond to any appeals or pressures, and his moderate stance remains the same...