Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops began retaliating against the fedayeen, it looked as if the Soviet-backed regimes of Iraq and Syria might intervene. To complicate matters further, guerrillas hijacked four foreign airliners in early September and directed three of them to a dirt airstrip 30 miles from the Jordanian capital of Amman: there they held hundreds of passengers as ransom for imprisoned fedayeen. "Black September," the climactic clash between Hussein and the guerrillas who increasingly threatened his rule, was beginning to unfold. To weigh the situation, Kissinger activated his crisis committee, the Washington Special Action Group (WSAG). At the group's urging...
...entry "A Former Secretary of State," his hosts last week treated him as if he still held that office. Anwar Sadat sent him from Cairo to Tel Aviv in an official Mystere jet; King Hussein of Jordan dispatched a helicopter to carry him from the Allenby Bridge to Amman; the Saudis sent a Gulfstream II executive jet (with closed-circuit TV) to fly Kissinger, his wife Nancy and his son David, 17, to Riyadh. "What we're doing for Henry," said one Egyptian official, "we normally do only for Presidents and Prime Ministers...
Egyptian periodicals and films have been banned from almost all the boycotting countries. Even the World Tourism Organization, a loose association of governmental travel bureaus that develops package tours in the Middle East, abruptly moved its regional headquarters from Cairo to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Reminded of the longstanding Arab boycott against Israeli commercial interests, one U.S. businessman in Cairo concluded: "We're faced with a new Arab blacklist...
...notably euphoric mood when he reported to a somewhat skeptical Knesset on his latest travels. With a touch of awe in his voice, the Premier declared that "they played the Hatikva [the Israeli national anthem] in Cairo." Shouted right-wing Backbencher Geula Cohen: "They will play it in Amman [Jordan] as well, if you give them Jerusalem!" But the members of parliament were generally appreciative until Begin mentioned the only new agreement to come from the trip: Sadat had agreed that the Israelis could keep a laundry at Kibbutz Neot-Sinai, a mile east of El Arish, until the final...
...Wilton Wynn the basis for his commitment to a peace treaty with Israel as the first step toward solving the problems of the Middle East. He spoke angrily of the role the Syrians, the Iraqis and others have played in obstructing his actions. Later, in the Jordanian capital of Amman, a gloomy Hussein, speaking in a voice so low as to be almost inaudible, reflected his pessimism about Sadat's dealing with Israel. Smiling bitterly, the 43-year-old monarch explained why he believes an Egyptian-Israeli treaty would harm the Arab cause and should be blocked. Excerpts from...