Word: fez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East peace plan, which calls for Palestinian self-government on the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan. Fahd's own outline for a Middle East settlement, incorporated the same year into the final declaration of an Arab summit in the Moroccan city of Fez, envisions an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital...
...fifths of the population is below poverty line, according to World Bank figures, and thousands live in makeshift huts in the increasingly swollen cities. Meanwhile, Hassan maintains a regal lifestyle. This week, for instance, he is host to a lavish celebration of a daughter's wedding in Fez, at one of nine sumptuous palaces...
Arafat's biggest mistake was to vacillate at a time when he was in a position to make a courageous decision that could have borne fruit for the 1.2 million Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories. He seemed to perceive the opportunity when, at an Arab summit in Fez last year, he came as close as he ever had to endorsing Israel's right to exist. In April he entered into negotiations with King Hussein on President Reagan's plan to link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Although Israel had rejected the plan outright, there...
...special court to examine cases involving neglect of duty. In a rhetorical concession to the rebels, the council announced its opposition to the Lebanese-Israeli withdrawal agreement and declared that the Arab plan for a Middle East peace settlement, as formulated at last year's Fez summit, should be rejected in favor of a "military option." That was not good enough for either the P.L.O. rebels or the Syrians, who merely stepped up their attacks on Arafat's leadership...
Although the results of the Hussein-Arafat meeting were inconclusive at week's end, there were indications that the two leaders were striving for a compromise formula that would try to bridge the Reagan initiative and the plan approved by 20 leaders at the Arab summit in Fez, Morocco, last September. The Fez plan called for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, whereas the Reagan proposal espouses only Palestinian self-rule under Jordanian auspices...