Word: hussein
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...late President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, Jordan now becomes the first country to rescind that gesture of disapproval. Although Egypt and Jordan have had a growing number of contacts over the past year, even Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was slightly amazed when King Hussein telephoned to inform him of his decision. Said a delighted Mubarak: "This is a daring step by King Hussein on the right path regarding Arab cohesion...
...present war. In 1975 the Shah of Iran signed an agreement with Iraq that gave Iran a share of the Shatt al Arab waterway at the head of the gulf in exchange for the Shah's withdrawal of support for Kurds fighting the Baghdad regime. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched his war against Iran in 1980 partly to recover what he had signed away five years earlier. He now has fewer problems with Kurds than Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini does, largely because he created an autonomous Kurdish region within Iraq in 1970. Still, roads in Iraqi Kurdistan are heavily guarded...
...State Department was particularly interested in Peres' intention to begin negotiations to withdraw 22,000 Israeli troops from southern Lebanon within a few months and in his proposal to invite Jordan's King Hussein to enter negotiations on the future of the West Bank...
Only four months ago, Iranian officials bluntly told Turkish President Kenan Evren that they "saw no benefit in mediation." Their demands for peace talks: war reparations from Iraq and the ouster of President Saddam Hussein. Last May, however, the Iranians stopped demanding that Iraq pay for the war and accepted a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire protecting civilian targets. Iran not only agreed to allow observers into the country to monitor the ceasefire, but also urged that it be extended to gulf shipping. Iraq rejected the proposal because it made no allowances for the reopening of Iraqi ports, closed...
Hundreds of screaming Iraqi fans donated the crowd, waving flags and pictures of President Saddam Hussein Beating drums and tambourines and blowing horns, the Iraqi throngs greatly outnumbered the three Canadian flags on the opposite side of the stadium...