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...endorsed the Iraqi cause with offers of military aid, including some forces from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam in the area...
Davidson based his story on reports that included battlefield dispatches by Correspondent Adam Zagorin and Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak. Zagorin, who is based in Beirut, flew to Amman and set out on a grueling all-night bus trip across the Jordanian desert to Baghdad. He helped cover the 1977 border skirmishes between Egypt and Libya for U.P.I., "But this was my first look at direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting...
DIED. Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, 80, mayor of the West Bank town of Hebron (pop. 60,000) for 36 years and a power in Palestinian Arab politics under successive British, Jordanian and Israeli administrations; after a long illness; in Hebron. Ja'abari was one of the few important West Bankers willing to deal with the Israelis after the 1967 occupation, but his inability to prevent the Israelis from establishing settlements near Hebron weakened his rule and he resigned...
...came close to collapse last week over one of five key issues on which Egyptian and Israeli views diverge: security in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.* Egypt has proposed a formula providing for security matters to be shared by the proposed Palestinian council, Israeli authorities and Jordanian patrols. The Israelis insist that they must maintain full military supervision over all security questions...
TIME has learned from Arab sources that Jordan has agreed to permit P.L.O. commandos to cross its borders into the West Bank and has formed a special Jordanian command organization to supervise the Palestinians while their commandos move through Jordan. This means Jordan would permit P.L.O. guerrilla operations-provided that Amman is notified in advance and that the attacks are mounted inside the West Bank. Such a Jordanian decision would reflect both King Hussein's dismay over the state of U.S.-Jordanian relations, which he said last month were the poorest since he assumed the throne 27 years...