Word: hussein
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...Palestinian moderate with close ties to Jordan, his funeral turned into the largest show of public support for the outlawed P.L.O. that has been seen in the West Bank since the territory was occupied by Israel in 1967. The mourners also displayed their displeasure with Jordan's King Hussein, who last month announced that he had broken off political ties with Arafat following the failure of the two men to find a common approach to the Middle East peace process. "Hussein, you pig, your hands should be tied!" they shouted. "No Hussein! No Assad! Only the P.L.O.!" After winding through...
...Committee that the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or the notorious Abu Nidal group was "probably" responsible for the killing. Both Syrian-backed, anti-Arafat groups accused al Masri of being an Israeli collaborator, and Abu Nidal also called the assassination "a warning" to Arafat and Hussein. Some Israeli sources, however, did not rule out Arafat's own Fatah organization as the culprit. Had the mainstream P.L.O. wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been a logical target. Not only had his appointment received Jordan's tacit approval, but his family is part...
...Whoever was responsible, the assassination was a setback for what little is left of the peace process that has evolved from the 1978 Camp David accords (see box). It undermined King Hussein's hopes of finding partners among moderate West Bank Palestinians to replace the recalcitrant P.L.O. Equally, it was a serious blow to Prime Minister Peres' plans for returning the administration of the major towns to moderate Palestinians after three years of direct military control. And it was a savage tragedy for a distinguished family that has taken a lead in trying to improve the quality of life...
Jordan's King Hussein had hoped to become the architect of a successful Middle East peace agreement involving Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as his own kingdom. But the Hashemite monarch has seen his plans crumble in the face of P.L.O. intransigence. Happily Hussein's designs are doing better at the royal palace in Amman. The King, 50, and Queen Noor, 34, the former Lisa Halaby of Washington, recently welcomed a fourth child into their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman...
...become the locus of some of the fiercest fighting in the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraqi troops mounted a blistering counterattack against dug-in Iranian invaders. By week's end Iran still held its grip on the peninsula. And neighboring Arab sheikdoms began to wonder whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had lost the initiative on the battlefield to the Iranian juggernaut...