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...over a planned 20th anniversary celebration for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Originally scheduled to be held in Baghdad this month, the event was canceled two weeks ago because of the hostilities. The war also dimmed prospects for an Arab League summit meeting, planned for Nov. 25 in Amman. Seven Arab foreign ministers gathered in the Jordanian capital last week to draw up an agenda, but produced little more than vague declarations on the need for "pan-Arab good will...
Davidson based his story on reports that included battlefield dispatches by Correspondent Adam Zagorin and Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak. Zagorin, who is based in Beirut, flew to Amman and set out on a grueling all-night bus trip across the Jordanian desert to Baghdad. He helped cover the 1977 border skirmishes between Egypt and Libya for U.P.I., "But this was my first look at direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting...
Other Palestinians, who by no standard could be considered terrorists, worry about some terrible final conflagration. Says U.S.educated Sari Nasir, who teaches at the University of Jordan in Amman: "People are saying now that it's not a question of Israel's borders, it's a question of its existence. It's either them...
After Israel, the main target of Palestinian resentment is the U.S., which evokes savage condemnations that stray close to open antiSemitism. Says one bitter intellectual in Amman: "You know why I hate the American Government? Because it is not an American government, it is a Zionist government." Frustrated Palestinians often warn of the likelihood of a serious Arab use of the "oil weapon" by mid-1981. Adnan Abu Odah, a Jordan-based director of the World Affairs Council explains, "This is the question: How to make America's awareness of its liabilities outweigh its commitment to Israel...
DIED. Sharif Abdel Hamid Sharaf, 41, Prime Minister of Jordan since December 1979 and a strong Arab nationalist who was one of King Hussein's closest advisers; of a heart attack; in Amman. A distant cousin of Hussein's, he became Ambassador to Washington and the U.N. after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following his appointment as chief of the royal Cabinet in 1976 he had been a hard-line advocate of Jordan's close ties to other Arab states and to the Palestinians...