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...addition, we are going to suggest to the Jordanians the opening of meaningful negotiations, not necessarily based on the Camp David agreement. We would like to have representatives of Palestinian groups in the Jordanian delegation, but not the P.L.O...
...history of Jordan." But the first visit of Queen Elizabeth, 57, to the Hashemite kingdom had very nearly been canceled by an explosion 200 yards from the British embassy in Amman two days before her departure. The trip went on only after a reassuring phone call from the Jordanian King about the security precautions. Indeed, after arriving at Amman in her jet, which was equipped with antimissile devices, the Queen and Prince Philip, 62, were whisked around with such speed and caution that few average Jordanians got much of a glimpse. Politically, though, Arabs were pleased (and Israelis miffed...
...delighted to read your article about the Lebanese Christians and their ties with the Western world [WORLD, March 5]. As a Jordanian, I am proud to be called an Arab. My Lebanese friends deny they are Arabs. They insist they are still Phoenicians...
Officially divided in 1949 as a result of the Israeli-Jordanian armistice agreement, Jerusalem was reunited by the Israelis in the Six-Day War of 1967. The city's urban designers now see their task as the creation of a city so livable and so interwoven that no one will ever want or be able to divide it again. This is being accomplished cooperatively by Jews, Muslims and Christians, whose often volatile emotions are embedded in every stone...
...riding a horse lest he appear higher than a Moslem and laws mandating that synagogues not be visible from the street and be built lower than other city buildings. Step into the Intercontinental Hotel outside of Jerusalem and see the bathrooms paved with Jewish tombstones from the days of Jordanian occupation...