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After the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, Hassan took charge of rebuilding Jordan's economy and settling Palestinian refugees. On economic issues, he is passionate and smart. "He likes to call people in to talk about tariff reduction," says a Western diplomat in Amman. "He's fascinated by details, whereas the king's eyes will glaze over." In 1972, Hassan established the Royal Scientific Society, a think tank that has produced some of Jordan's leading economic experts. A proponent of IMF-style adjustments, Hassan currently oversees a program of cautious reform, including price decontrols and bank liberalizations...
...welcome mat was held back in the place Yassin might have expected to find the warmest greeting. Jordan, whose KING HUSSEIN pressured Israel into freeing Yassin, twice refused him entry. According to a senior Jordanian official, Hussein, who has for years tolerated a high-profile Hamas office in Amman, is weary of the group, which has waged a series of deadly bomb attacks in Israel. Yassin's fiery speeches on the road, calling for the destruction of Israel, were not appreciated by Hussein, who signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Says the Jordanian official: "The King no longer...
...AMMAN, Jordan: In one of the more humiliating retreats since MacArthur left the Philippines, U.S. arms inspectors arrived here Friday after a grueling night drive across the Iraqi desert ? having been forced out of Baghdad by Saddam Hussein a day ahead of their international colleagues...
Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU is under heavy criticism in Israel for sending Mossad agents on a failed attempt to kill a Hamas leader, KHALED MESHAL, on a commercial street in the Jordanian capital of Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right...
...groundwork for Yassin's release had begun the previous Friday, the day after the Mossad attack in Amman. According to an official privy to the proceedings, Hussein on Friday compelled the Israelis to acknowledge that the two Canadian passport holders were in fact Mossad agents. Asked whether Hussein threatened to cut off relations with Israel, with which he had made peace in 1994, a palace source replied, "It went beyond that...