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...says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz about nations participating in November's Middle East peace talks, Jordan's King Hussein was watching and was so irritated that he had palace officials immediately call CNN's Amman office to complain...
...asks Ali of the Plaza Hotel. "Obviously we are being forced to leave." But even leaving is difficult. Approximately 30,000 Palestinians hold Egyptian travel documents, but Cairo is less than eager to take them. Jordan is the only available haven, but Saudi Arabia has refused overland transit to Amman, Iraq has allowed it only sporadically, and the only other way out, by air, is costly. The result is a general milling about -- a bitter and demoralized Palestinian population resigned to a fate most are unable to seal...
...born in Damascus, Syria, lived until the age of nine in Beirut, Lebanon and Amman, Jordan, moved to Vienna, Austria and came to Harvard for college...
Usually, busy diplomats travel from Amman to Jerusalem by air, but James Baker took the less traveled path last week and made the trip by road. With his two-hour drive, the Secretary of State wanted to underscore just how close the two adversaries are. But his stroll over the Allenby Bridge spanning the River Jordan, which marks the border, made the equally telling point that both sides are loath to come together. The two Jordanian officers who accompanied the Secretary midway across the bridge and the waiting Israeli escort spoke not a word to one another...
...first the tent must go up. Baker moves on this week from Damascus to < Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to keep pushing at the obstacles that still block the peace conference. If he makes no progress, said a senior official, "I think we ought to stop flying around and decide what we do next...