Word: amman
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TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott talked to dozens of Palestinians in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and found not one who disapproved of the terrorist raid that precipitated the Israeli invasion. "Good, good," declared a hotel doorman. "Three times more, that's what we need...
Instead of all this, Atherton is taking on an arduous mission that may run for years and still end in failure. His glimpses of the Mediterranean will be limited to what he can see on shuttle flights between Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus (as well as Amman and Riyadh). One consolation at least is that Wife Betty will be along...
...tempers cooled, both sides prepared to resume negotiations in a somewhat more realistic atmosphere. Atherton, after a week's hard work with the Israelis, flew to Amman to meet Hussein, and was then scheduled to proceed to Cairo to discuss with the Egyptians some suggestions for improving the text of the declaration of principles. In fact, Kamel, Vance and Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had considerably narrowed the language gap before the Egyptian delegation was ordered home two weeks ago. Still to be resolved, however, was the phrasing of the item involving the nature of a West...
...question had just been asked: Did he predict failure for the Jerusalem talks? As Jordan's King Hussein was about to answer, a door to his office in Amman's Basman Palace flew open and Abdul Hamid Sharaf, Chief of the Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation...
Shortly before his death Holden told friends in Amman that he was going to make a detour to Jerusalem on his way to Cairo. "Haven't been there for years," he said. "I guess they consider me public enemy No. 1." Holden was joking, though it is true that Israeli officials considered him pro-Arab because of his sensitive reporting on the plight of Palestinians. Holden had also criticized Arab left-wingers for "their stupid boasts and futile gestures," and some friends believe he may have been the victim of Arab extremists...