Word: husseins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...targets that Israeli officials termed "terrorist bases" near the town of Bar Elias in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. The bases apparently belonged to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a dissident faction of the P.L.O. The raid came only a day before Hussein's meeting with Arafat...
...coalition partner to topple the government and force elections. Otherwise, under the national unity coalition agreement, he must turn over the Prime Minister's job to Shamir in October. But in the meantime, Peres plans to do nothing that would divert him from nailing down the talks with Hussein...
...expectations that Hussein would cast the P.L.O. and Arafat into outer darkness at the Amman meeting were soon doomed to disappointment. Even so, the P.L.O. leader was uneasy as he arrived from Baghdad on Monday for his session at Hussein's Al Nadwa Palace. He had reason for anxiety. Hussein was infuriated by the Achille Lauro hijacking. The King was even more irked by the collapse of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives, one of whom scuttled the session by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist...
Evidently fearing the kind of daring U.S. air interception that the Achille Lauro hijackers encountered, Arafat made the 500-mile journey from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, to Amman by automobile. Seven top P.L.O. leaders accompanied him to the palace for the 2 1/2-hour meeting with Hussein. The ! next day Arafat held a three-hour session with Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al Rifa'i. Later, however, the P.L.O. leader claimed that Hussein was not upset in their meeting. Said he: "Jordanian-Palestinian relations are too strong to be affected by an event here or an event there...
What emerged from the Hussein-Arafat talks were two specific assurances: 1) that Arafat would harmonize any further diplomatic moves, like the failed London meeting, with Jordan and with other P.L.O. officials through a joint coordinating committee; and 2) that Arafat would do everything possible to prevent a repeat of the Achille Lauro hijacking. In a move that promised to be more show than substance, the P.L.O. also agreed to set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the cruise-liner tragedy, including the role of the notorious Abul Abbas, accused by Israel of masterminding that operation...