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...both men, the major problem has long been the attitude of Syria, which has charged that in seeking peace with Israel, Hussein and Arafat are defying the collective Arab will and following in the heretical steps of the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. In Hussein's view, Arab League backing would put pressure on Washington to take a more positive action on the peace initiative. The Jordanians also hoped that Hussein's demonstration of leadership could ease Washington's fears that Syrian President Hafez Assad will stifle the peace momentum...
Without warning, the fickle thermostat that governs Middle East diplomacy seemed to click from freeze to thaw last week. Conciliatory messages about the prospects for peace floated back and forth between the leaders of Israel and Jordan. Top-ranking officials of Syria, Jordan and Egypt met in various locales to focus their efforts on uncharacteristic unity rather than on their sometimes murderous differences. Even members of Yasser Arafat's Tunis-based Palestine Liberation Organization seemed to be caught up in the wave of regional fence mending as they tried to woo the support of members of rival P.L.O. factions...
During his Times interview, King Hussein took pains to compliment Peres as a "man of vision," even while keeping a wary distance from the Israeli peace offer. Both Hussein and Egypt's Mubarak were sorely tried by the P.L.O. during the Achille Lauro ordeal. Hussein was further irked at the cancellation of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives; the session was called off after one of the P.L.O. members refused to endorse the right of Israel to exist. But Hussein last week carefully insisted that "at the right time under...
...situation called for soothing apologies and mutual assurances, anything to quell the bad feelings stirred by the hijacking a few weeks earlier of the Achille Lauro. Washington extended a hand to Italy, Egypt and Tunisia--and each, in turn, responded with varying degrees of warmth. In Italy, where a rancorous debate over Prime Minister Bettino Craxi's handling of the incident toppled the government two weeks ago, Craxi took steps to resurrect his five-party coalition. In Egypt, where students had taken to the streets, burning American flags and chanting provocative anti-U.S. slogans, calm was restored. But even...
...Editors: Your article stressed "disarray in diplomacy" vis-à-vis Egypt and Italy [TERRORISM, Oct. 28]. President Reagan is the elected head not of those two nations but of the U.S. His leadership correctly reflected his constitutional obligation to defend American lives at home and abroad. Marvin Alisky Tempe, Ariz...