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...Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat to mend fences. After a ceremonial embrace, the two held their first private conversation in seven years, discussing the need for an eventual link between Jordan and a proposed Palestinian state in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...necessary to 1) participate in a Geneva Conference, 2) come to terms with Jordan's King Hussein, and 3) moderate, if not abandon the P.L.O.'s avowed aim of establishing a "secular democratic" state in all of Israel rather than merely on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...Rabat summit of 1974, where he was stripped of the right to represent West Bank Palestinians (who still hold Jordanian citizenship) in future peace negotiations with Israel. Instead the Palestinians were given the right to negotiate over the status of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and in Gaza. Arafat meanwhile was lionized. He took his "guns and olive branch" liberation theory to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly after Rabat. He was also granted head-of-government status in the Arab League, although he did not even head a government in exile...
Home in Humiliation. Meanwhile the King has regained his former standing with the major Arab countries. Scarcely two years ago, Arab leaders assembled for a summit meeting in Rabat and agreed that the Palestinians, rather than Hussein, should henceforth be responsible for the future of the West Bank and Gaza. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., journeyed from Rabat to New York to be lionized by the U.N. General Assembly. Hussein went home in humiliation...
...have suddenly been reversed. Arafat is in difficulty because his Palestinian forces became too deeply involved in Lebanon's civil war -and on the losing side. Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are privately pressuring the P.L.O. to end the fight against Israel and to accept the West Bank-Gaza state. Hussein figures prominently in these arguments. Last month he was in Aswan at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's invitation to discuss the proposed linkage with the Palestinians, and before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates want...