Word: jordanian
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...Hussein and Faisal almost as much as it hates Israelis and Western (meaning U.S.) "imperialism." The P.F.L.P., known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking of U.S., British and Swiss airliners to the Jordanian desert in 1970. It also skyjacked a Lufthansa 747 two years later and collected a $5 million ransom for plane and passengers. The P.F.L.P. is allied with the far-left "Japanese Red Army," three of whose members shot up Israel's Lod Airport in 1972 and slaughtered 27 people...
...issue was probably the summit's thorniest and most acrimonious problem. During the preparatory foreign ministers' meetings that preceded the summit, feeling ran so high at one point that Farouk Kaddoumy, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, heaved his well-filled dinner plate at Jordanian Premier and Foreign Minister Zaid Rifai. At week's end the foreign ministers voted 19 to 1 to adopt a resolution co-sponsored by Syria and Egypt that would strip King Hussein of sovereignty over the West Bank. Hussein was expected to make a determined pitch to dissuade the heads...
...secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less extreme fedayeen would settle-temporarily, at least-for Palestinian control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The alternative, they argue, is that the territories might be turned over to Jordanian occupation...
...opposing any conciliatory overtures to the P.L.O. Visiting Nahariya last week, Premier Yitzhak Rabin pledged "an epoch of perpetual war against terrorism." Israel's government so far refuses to deal with any Palestinians except those who live in Gaza or on the West Bank, and then only as Jordanian citizens. The Israeli government will not accept the concept of a Palestinian state except as a demilitarized area under Jordanian control...
...suicide mission raided an Israeli farming settlement and killed three women (see THE WORLD). Said a terrorist spokesman: "This is how every Arab should receive Nixon, the chief imperialist in the world." There were fears that there might be further terrorist "spectaculars" this week during the Israeli and Jordanian portions of the tour, and everywhere Nixon went security precautions were extraordinary...