Word: hussein
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AMMAN, Jordan--King Hussein said yesterday he has ended a year-long effort to work jointly with Yasser Arafat toward peace with Israel because the PLO did not meet its commitments...
...second time Hussein had tried to cooperate with the Palestine Liberation Organization in a Middle East peace effort. He abandoned the previous effort in April 1983 for similar reasons...
Although he is negating the agreement on a joint approach to peace that he and Arafat reached on Feb. 11, 1985, Hussein said its "principles and tenets will continue to embody the foundations governing relations between the Jordanian and Palestinian peoples with regard to equality of rights and obligations in facing our joint destiny...
After his meeting with Hussein, Arafat paid a courtesy call on the Soviet ambassador in Amman. As it happened, less than 24 hours later Moscow announced that it had received good news about its own brush with the vagaries of Middle Eastern terror. Three Soviet diplomats kidnaped in Beirut on Sept. 30 had been released in that city, 28 days after the body of a fourth Soviet kidnap victim, Consular Secretary Arkadi Katkov, was found with a bullet through the head. The P.L.O. had nothing to do with the Soviet kidnapings, for which the hitherto unknown Islamic Liberation Organization claimed...
...outcome of Arafat's meetings suggests that the peace process still has a way to go before the kinds of talks that Peres envisages take place. "I don't see any dramatic turning point," said Israeli Foreign Minister Shamir. "The same obstacles still exist." Yes, but as Hussein told TIME, "we are continuing to explore all possibilities...