Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amman to devise a face-saving formula, Saudi Arabia's Deputy Prime Minister, Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, proudly proclaimed that his peacemaking efforts had been "crowned with success." He announced that Syria had agreed to a gradual withdrawal of the troops it had dispatched to the Jordanian border. Officials in Amman, though, were initially skeptical. Said Jordanian Minister of Information Adnan Abu Odeh: "We will make our judgment known when we see the last Syrian soldiers withdrawing from their positions." Then, in a further effort to heal the breach between the two antagonistic countries, King Khalid of Saudi...
...tacit backing of Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for Syria's archenemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has left Syria feeling isolated and threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with Iran. As one U.S. analyst put it last week, "Assad wanted to remind everybody that Syria was still there...
...Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan that calls for the return of nonstrategic portions of the West Bank to Jordan, which lost the area to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Beyond that, Peres believes that a joint Jordanian-Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank, headed by Jordan's King Hussein, is more feasible than trying to achieve Palestinian autonomy...
...virtue of Peres' proposal is that he would let the Jordanians include any Palestinians they wanted on their negotiating team - and that could conceivably include members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Another point in favor of the plan is that the prospect of a Jordanian role in negotiations has be come increasingly acceptable to a number of West Bankers as an alternative if autonomy fails. Sadat, however, argues that an autonomy agreement must be completed first, and only then should King Hussein be brought into the negotiations. His reasoning is that the ground work for a comprehensive settlement...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Originally scheduled to be held in Baghdad this month, the event was canceled two weeks ago because of the hostilities. The war also dimmed prospects for an Arab League summit meeting, planned for Nov. 25 in Amman. Seven Arab foreign ministers gathered in the Jordanian capital last week to draw up an agenda, but produced little more than vague declarations on the need for "pan-Arab good will...