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...Also in Amman, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak showed up for a private five-hour meeting with Hussein. The two moderate Arab leaders had a couple of important items on their agenda: how to reinvigorate the peace process and what to do about the role of Arafat and the P.L.O. in the wake of the Achille Lauro debacle. Later, Mubarak indicated his hope that the P.L.O. leader could be persuaded to stay in line with the objectives of the peace process...
...healing the long-standing rift between their countries. The two men met at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Syria severed diplomatic relations with Jordan in 1980, and the situation became even more strained after Jordan's Hussein put together his Feb. 11 agreement with P.L.O. Leader Arafat to reach a negotiated Middle East settlement with Israel. The signs of rapprochement between Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad raised the long-term possibility of an even more broadly based regional peace...
...that activity was heartening. But most of the stirrings were also tentative and even contradictory in their objectives and strategies. Peres' U.N. speech could not be separated from his other apparent goal, the removal of the P.L.O. from the peace negotiations. The Israeli leader has repeatedly argued that Arafat has "dealt himself out of the peace process" with his alleged terrorist practices. As Peres often puts it, "You cannot talk and kill at the same time...
...speech, the Israeli leader took yet another anti-P.L.O. tack. He sidestepped Arafat entirely and appealed instead to the Palestinian people to join the peace talks. Said Peres: "Come forth and recognize the reality of the state of Israel. Let us face each other across the negotiating table...
...least one P.L.O. official would admit that there were "quite a few positive things" in the Peres speech, notably the reference to an international forum. The same official said that his organization was "pretty confident" that Hussein would never deal directly and independently with Israel. The King and Arafat are expected to meet this week in Amman...