Word: hussein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was going on? A few weeks ago Peres reportedly held secret talks with Jordan's King Hussein. Peres apparently found a ready partner in Hussein, who has long advocated a peace conference at which he could deal directly with Israel without being branded a traitor to the Arab cause. His efforts to form a negotiating partnership with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat failed a year...
...back into the fold Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In return, he promised the two Damascus-based radicals that he would renounce the two-year-old Amman Accord, under which he and Jordan's King Hussein had launched a joint peace initiative. In fact, the accord had long since broken down anyway...
...southern frontier of the warring nations, and advanced on Basra some ten miles away. The stakes in the fighting, which has settled into a ferocious standoff a few miles outside the city, could not be higher: an Iranian victory would demoralize the Iraqis and could topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom Iranian Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has vowed to crush. The global importance of the war was shown anew last week when the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk moved to within striking distance of newly installed Iranian missile batteries that threaten shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf. Though Basra...
...payments to Lebanese terrorists. The Washington Times published a copy of what it said was a letter written to Reagan late last year by Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian expatriate who acted as a middleman in the deals. In it, Ghorbanifar supposedly said he had made "substantial payments" to Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, a high Iranian official. Expanding on the story, the New York Times quoted sources as estimating that Ghorbanifar paid around $10 million to various Iranians and a group that financed the Lebanese kidnapers of American hostages. Ghorbanifar, contacted by TIME, had "no comment" on the letter to Reagan...
...coming from all sides. The Revolutionary Justice Organization, which is composed of Shi'ite Muslim extremists, postponed plans last week to execute French Television Engineer Jean-Louis Normandin. The group had been warned not to kill him by both Syria and Shi'ite Muslim Cleric Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of the pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God). Said Fadlallah: "You cannot confront the policy of the French President by executing a kidnap victim...