Word: husseins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than any other Arab leader apart from the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan has worked for a negotiated settlement of the explosive Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, drained after months of unsuccessful efforts to enlist Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, into the peace process, Hussein announced that he had reached "an end to another chapter in the search for peace...
...slowly giving way to whatever will follow. For long periods, this movement may only be measurable by the hour hand of history, but journalism feels compelled to note every ticktock of the second hand. The reader returns from a month's vacation to find Jordan's King Hussein still fretting over whether to negotiate with the Israelis, playing a game of pull me forward--no, pull me back. The reader could be away for two years and return to find Yasser Arafat still debating whether to accept U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 and thus "implicitly recognize Israel's right...
Israel's defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Tel that Hussein's decision created a "historic opportunity" for Middle East peace. Rabin called on the 1.3 million Palestinians in Israel's occupied territories to jettison...
...Hussein did not reveal his future plans, but he said "Jordan believes in peace" and outlined six Jordanian efforts to reach an accommodation with Isreal after the 1967 Middle East...
...Hussein said the PLO chief promised last August to approve the resolutions. In the end, however, Arafat restated his organization's traditional position that they were unacceptable because they do not mention the Palestinians' right to self-determination--in effect, a homeland...