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...domestic news bureaus (in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco), foreign correspondents in Rome and London and a joint bureau with the Canadian Television Network in Peking. It plans to open offices soon in Bangkok, and Amman, Jordan. Headquarters for the operation is an antebellum mansion on 22 acres in Atlanta that cost $8.5 million to acquire and refurbish. CNN has spent $10 million on space-age TV equipment, most of it for the Atlanta studio. Cable systems around the country that subscribe to CNN will receive its programs from a communications satellite orbiting...
...learned from Arab sources that Jordan has agreed to permit P.L.O. commandos to cross its borders into the West Bank and has formed a special Jordanian command organization to supervise the Palestinians while their commandos move through Jordan. This means Jordan would permit P.L.O. guerrilla operations-provided that Amman is notified in advance and that the attacks are mounted inside the West Bank. Such a Jordanian decision would reflect both King Hussein's dismay over the state of U.S.-Jordanian relations, which he said last month were the poorest since he assumed the throne 27 years...
...Palestinians are seen by other Arabs with a combination of fear, suspicion, guilt and pride," says Sociologist Sari Nasir of Amman University. The Palestinians return these ambivalent feelings. In the "Black September of 1970," Arafat's guerrillas, fearing that Jordan was usurping their power, turned against King Hussein's troops, lost a bloody ten-day battle, and were forced to move their base of operations from Jordan to Lebanon. Beginning in 1975, they took an active role in the Lebanese civil war. The Syrians first intervened against them, not wanting the Palestinians and the Lebanese leftists to gain...
Maher Irsheid, 38, one of the largest Arab landowners on the West Bank, manages his family's vast 75,000-acre tract of fertile farm land near Jenin. But these days he travels from his office in Amman to the West Bank only once a year to avoid the "humiliating experience" of being stripped at the Allenby Bridge checkpoint. Staunchly pro-American, Irsheid was a member of the Jordanian Parliament when the West Bank was under Amman's rule; he is disenchanted with what he calls a "two-faced American policy that talks of human rights while providing...
...some 1,500 West Bank Palestinians. Nasser, 44, was taken in handcuffs from his home in the middle of the night, driven to the Lebanese border in a military van and tossed out of the vehicle. A physicist by training, he conducts public relations for the university from Amman. Nasser worries about what effect the Israeli occupation will have on younger Palestinians. "The Israelis should realize they have created a hothouse for young radicals in the West Bank. These kids are newly revolutionary, not like their subdued and docile parents, and they are extremely bright and literate. Their motivations...