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...foray into the Middle East, taught him just how treacherous a terrain he had entered. He had hoped for a prime-time TV triumph to boost his party's midterm election chances when he seized upon the Israeli-Jordanian settlement to fly off to dramatic presidential appearances in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Jerusalem, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He quickly discovered that the Middle East and its problems guarantee not only the world's attention but risks, surprises and, for every misstep, a potential explosion...
After the treaty ceremony in the desert Wednesday, Clinton stopped briefly in Amman, where he told the Jordanian parliament, "You have sent a signal to the entire Arab world that peace is unstoppable." A test of that prediction came the next day in Damascus. Clinton was taking a chance on Assad, rewarding him up front with a telegenic official visit by a U.S. President, even though Syria is still listed by the State Department as a sponsor of terrorism. For his part, Clinton wanted to hear Assad offer public assurances that he opposes the kind of terror Hamas has been...
...nighter to iron out quibbles over borders and water rights, the second surprise announcement of progress toward a formal end to hostilities in less than a week. The Israeli Cabinet approved the document today, hours after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed it in Amman. Both countries' legislatures are expected to ratify the document by week's end, and a final version will likely be signed Oct. 26 on the Israel-Jordan border. President Clinton, who hosted the two leaders for a Washington handshake in July, will probably be on hand...
...scene was novel -- and euphoric: Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres sitting at a table near the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side of the border last week across from his counterpart from Amman, Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali. Meeting for the first time publicly on Jordanian territory, the two men started talking about taking practical steps that would all but end the state of war that has existed between their two countries since...
...have Americans been wholly absent. According to Western diplomats and business travelers, agents of Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Boeing, General Motors and others have been spotted in the first-class hotels of Baghdad and Amman, Jordan, where many of the meetings with Iraqi trade officials take place. State Department officials say they have investigated these claims and found no sign of wrongdoing by U.S. companies, who are "officially discouraged" from making such contacts. Says a State Department official: "The Iraqis are engaged in a constant effort to get companies to deal with them quickly. They want them to believe the train...