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...insistence that his decision had been made simply in the interests of "national unity." A more likely reason seemed to be the interests of international Arab unity. A week earlier, Hussein flew to Cairo for a summit meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad (TIME, Sept. 24). The meeting marked the end of Jordan's isolation by much of the Arab world, an isolation that had largely been brought about by Hussein's unrelenting hard line toward the fedayeen...
...seemed like another case of overkill. The summit was certainly noteworthy, if only for the fact that Jordan's King Hussein, who for three years has been shunned by most of his Arab brethren, traveled to Cairo to confer with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad. But their meeting produced no immediate plans for unified action...
...weeks ago Syrian President Hafez Assad stopped off in Cairo on his way home from the Soviet Union. His relations with Moscow have become more genial as the Russians have stepped up their cultivation of Mideast allies other than Egypt. The gist of Assad's message from the Russians was: no offensive weapons for Egypt. That was grim news for Sadat, who had been facing growing pressures at home...
...since 1967 makes any sense to me at all in terms of logic or what's in the Arab interest." There is no doubt that Libya's fiery Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is the man most responsible for the boycott. Among other things, Gaddafi offered Syrian President Hafez Assad $13 million to participate. (So far he has paid only $5,000,000.) For the moment, Hussein is trying not to further antagonize Gaddafi, with whom he has traded face-to-face insults in the past. "Libya is responsible for putting a great deal of pressure on some...
...army was apparently afraid that the winner of the election-and the next President-would be the radical, Syrian-born former mayor of Guayaquil, Assad Bucaram. But the generals may also have been lured by the spoils of office. Ecuador may eventually become Latin America's second largest oil producer (after Venezuela). The Trans-Andean pipeline goes into operation next June. President Velasco had already received $11 million from Texaco-Gulf in advance royalties. He had also signed a secret decree giving the military half the total oil royalties. Now, for the time being at least, the army will...