Word: jordanian
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...Middle East. Then, as soon as he got back to Jerusalem, he confounded the Carter Administration by legalizing three previously unauthorized Israeli settlements that had been built on the West Bank. More than that, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan announced that Israel would accept no foreign rule-meaning even Jordanian-on the West Bank. What, everyone wondered, might the unpredictable Begin do next...
...Begin not only continued to insist that Israel must keep the West Bank but went even further than that: he announced a tough additional condition against "foreign rule" there. By that he meant that Jerusalem would not even go along with creation of a West Bank Palestinian enclave under Jordanian sovereignty-a formula that Begin's Labor predecessors had been prepared to accept...
...Begin talked to me about refugees, Palestinians. And in his other statements he has said that he did not object to Palestinians being represented in the Arab delegations or in the Jordanian delegation. When pressed, he said in his press conference that if they were identifiable members of the P.L.O. leadership, that he would object. He went on to add immediately, because the P.L.O. are publicly committed to the destruction of Israel. I cannot speak for Mr. Begin [but] if the Palestinian leaders adopted that position [acceptance of Israel's existence] or espoused the U.N. Resolutions...
...withdrawal from the West Bank or restoration of Arab sovereignty to East Jerusalem. Begin also told Carter he was opposed to a single Arab delegation at Geneva and insisted that under no circumstances could known members of the Palestine Liberation Organization be present there, even as members of a Jordanian delegation. Explained Begin to a Washington press conference: "The P.L.O. cannot participate. To put it bluntly and simply, their design is to destroy our country and our people...
Married. Princess Alia of Jordan. 21, for whom the Jordanian national airline was named by her father, King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet; both for the first time; near Amman...