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...Also in Amman, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak showed up for a private five-hour meeting with Hussein. The two moderate Arab leaders had a couple of important items on their agenda: how to reinvigorate the peace process and what to do about the role of Arafat and the P.L.O. in the wake of the Achille Lauro debacle. Later, Mubarak indicated his hope that the P.L.O. leader could be persuaded to stay in line with the objectives of the peace process...
...Syrian counterpart, Abdel-Rauf al Kasm, apparently made strides in healing the long-standing rift between their countries. The two men met at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Syria severed diplomatic relations with Jordan in 1980, and the situation became even more strained after Jordan's Hussein put together his Feb. 11 agreement with P.L.O. Leader Arafat to reach a negotiated Middle East settlement with Israel. The signs of rapprochement between Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad raised the long-term possibility of an even more broadly based regional peace...
Peres' apparent concession to Hussein on the matter of an international peace conference took a highly convoluted form. In his U.N. speech, the Prime Minister said that "if deemed necessary," peace talks "may be initiated with the support of an international forum, as agreed upon by the negotiating states." He suggested that permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the U.S., Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union) might be involved, an idea that seemed to give the Soviets entrée to the peace talks. But Peres quickly added that countries "who confine their diplomatic relations to one side...
During his Times interview, King Hussein took pains to compliment Peres as a "man of vision," even while keeping a wary distance from the Israeli peace offer. Both Hussein and Egypt's Mubarak were sorely tried by the P.L.O. during the Achille Lauro ordeal. Hussein was further irked at the cancellation of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives; the session was called off after one of the P.L.O. members refused to endorse the right of Israel to exist. But Hussein last week carefully insisted that "at the right time under...
...Tunis, at least one P.L.O. official would admit that there were "quite a few positive things" in the Peres speech, notably the reference to an international forum. The same official said that his organization was "pretty confident" that Hussein would never deal directly and independently with Israel. The King and Arafat are expected to meet this week in Amman...