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...another part of the Middle East chessboard, the Administration was forging ahead with its $220 million plan to equip two Jordanian army brigades as a "mobile strike force," despite Israeli and congressional complaints. Indeed, last week it was disclosed that U.S. Special Forces have been secretly training the strike force since 1981. One motive for the military largesse is to lure Jordan into the Middle East peace process...
...longer needed there. Although Washington described the maneuver as routine, its timing seemed to belie the official explanation. It was also revealed last week that the White House wanted to revive a plan, first floated by Henry Kissinger in 1975, to train and equip up to two Jordanian army divisions to serve as a special strike force in the gulf region. Under the proposal, the divisions would receive C-130 transport planes, armored personnel carriers and Driver-crossing equipment. The project, vigorously opposed by Jerusalem, was still being discussed with Congress when Israelis leaked word of it in hopes...
...career diplomat who has quietly glided up in the State Department hierarchy. Having been executive secretary of the State Department, a high post involving Internal management, Pickering served as Ambassador to Jordan from 1974 to 1978 and, since 1981, to Nigeria. In both nations, he won admirers. A senior Jordanian diplomat remembers him as one of Washington's best envoys to the kingdom, "a first-rate professional diplomat who always dealt with us honestly and intelligently." Beneath his softspoken, scholarly demeanor, Pickering can be personable and witty. Indeed, he established an unusual rapport both with Jordan's King...
...linked to Jordan. Left-wing elements within Fatah oppose any settlement that would give the Palestinians less than a wholly sovereign and independent state, however unrealistic that goal may be. They in effect vetoed Arafat's attempts to reach an agreement with Hussein that would have allowed the Jordanian King to pursue the Reagan initiative in alliance with the Palestinians. The dissidents were actively encouraged by Assad and Gaddafi, who are opposed to Arafat's efforts toward moderation. They believe the Arabs must not negotiate with the Jerusalem government until their military strength is as great as that...
...President Reagan's Middle East Peace initiative. For all of its shortcomings, the President's plan represented the only viable hope of continuing the process begun at Camp David nearly five years ago. It was Arafat who foiled any chance of progress last week by refusing to approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain...