Word: hussein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muslim terrorists being held in Kuwait in return for one or two American captives. Hakim, following Secord's recommendations, went as far as to commit the U.S. to fighting the Soviets if they invaded Iran, and he pledged U.S. assistance in efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Secord and North approved Hakim's arrangement. Four days before the election, Hostage David Jacobsen was freed (nonetheless, the G.O.P. lost control of the Senate). When Liman sarcastically asked Hakim if he felt as if he had played "Secretary of State for a day," the businessman boasted, "I had it better than...
...there a solution to the impasse? Both Arabs and Israelis are hopelessly divided at present. Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization still commands the loyalty of the vast majority of West Bank Palestinians, but Arafat has broken his strategic ties with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, the two Arab moderates with whom he might have formed a credible alliance. The two major political parties in Israel cannot agree even on whether to enter into negotiations with the Palestinians under United Nations auspices...
...Reagan Administration swiftly tried to defuse the crisis, minimizing its significance. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger characterized the attack ; as a "single, horrible error on the part of the Iraqi pilot" who mistook the frigate for an Iranian tanker. Iraq's President Saddam Hussein promptly sent an apology to the U.S. "I hope this unintentional incident," he wrote, "will not affect our relations and the common desire to establish peace and stability in the region." The Iraqis also agreed to pay compensation to the families of the victims and reparations for damages to the $180 million ship...
...directly involved in the incident, they have upped the stakes in the gulf war in recent months by installing Chinese-made Silkworm missiles near the Strait of Hormuz. Last week the Iranian government gloated over the Stark catastrophe. "The great Satan is trapped," exulted Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi. "The Persian Gulf is not a safe place for the superpowers, and it is not in their interest to enter these quicksands...
Peres' proposal, which has been endorsed by Jordan's King Hussein and the Reagan Administration, has been at least two years in the making. It calls for an international conference whose participants would include the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China) as well as Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. After a formal opening, the conference would break up into small, bilateral meetings, with Israeli representatives meeting separately with Syrian, Jordanian and joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegations. The plan would limit the role of the Soviet Union and would...