Word: husseins
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...force Peres to withdraw an offer that he had made a week earlier before the United Nations General Assembly. The Israeli leader told the U.N. that Israel might concede a role in the peace process to a vaguely defined "international forum" as an inducement for Jordan's King Hussein to begin face-to-face peace negotiations. As a result of his domestic victory, Peres is increasingly confident that the moment for peace talks is virtually at hand. Says a Peres aide: "There's really an obsessive focus now on how to get to the peace table...
...Jordanian capital of Amman, two days of closed-door discussions between supposed peace partners yielded far more ambiguous conclusions. At their first meeting since the Achille Lauro hijacking, King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, hammered out at least a temporary continuance of their Feb. 11 agreement to reach a negotiated settlement with Israel. The two thereby blunted Israeli hopes that the P.L.O. might be squeezed out of the peace negotiations...
...Hussein extracted no promise from Arafat that the P.L.O. would forswear the use of violence against Israel. Nor did the monarch win a formal admission from the organization that it would recognize Israel's right to exist. However, in an interview with TIME Middle East Bureau Chief Dean Fischer after the meeting, Hussein said that he had given Arafat only a limited amount of time to provide that admission. Said the King: "There is no specific period of time, but we expect an answer in the near future . . . I believe that both the Jordanian and Palestinian sides have a clearer...
Prime Minister Peres welcomed that small U.S. gesture as yet another indication that his cherished goal of direct peace talks with Hussein was on track. The Labor Party leader returned to Jerusalem after an eleven-day visit to New York, Washington and Western Europe, visibly buoyed by the Jordanian monarch's response to his Oct. 22 U.N. speech, in which Peres promised to go to Amman or "any location" to hold direct peace talks. Hussein had called the Israeli offer "a positive one in its spirit...
...fact, Peres and Hussein held at least one summit meeting during the two weeks before the Israeli leader's U.S. trip. At that time, Peres surely made clear Israel's continuing firm opposition to P.L.O. involvement in the peace negotiations. In his interview with TIME last week, Hussein tacitly denied, however, that such a meeting had occurred...