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...join the negotiations on the P.L.O.'s behalf. Administration officials noted that, even as Hussein was conferring with Reagan last week, a chief aide to Arafat, Khalid al Hassan, was staying at the same hotel as Hussein and was being kept informed of the discussions by the Jordanian delegation. For once, the signs of a genuine breakthrough appeared to be at hand...
...proposal for a Middle East settlement." That was the way a top political adviser to Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ex plained the significance of a diplomatic arrangement worked out last week between the P.L.O. and Jordan. The agreement, hammered out in committee meetings chaired by Arafat and Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran, pledges "joint political moves at all levels" and calls for "a special and distinctive relationship" between Jordan and a "liberated Palestine" to be created out of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...officials read the P.L.O.-Jordanian agreement as mildly constructive. Still, they remain skeptical of any real change in Hussein's ability to negotiate on behalf of the P.L.O. The King, meanwhile, will be looking for some sign that the U.S. can win any concessions from Israel, which has flatly rejected the Reagan initiative...
...problem they considered is how to get around Washington's refusal to deal directly with the P.L.O. Accordingly, they discussed the idea that the P.L.O. might authorize non-P.L.O. Palestinians to negotiate in the organization's behalf. They also formed what they called a Higher Jordanian-Palestinian Committee to explore the possibilities of cooperation and confederation...
...even as it concentrated on the Lebanese crisis, the U.S. was working to get negotiations going again on a larger issue, the pursuit of a wider peace in the Middle East. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin once again attacked the Reagan plan. He charged that a Jordanian-Palestinian federation would lead to a "mighty flow of modern weapons" into the newly created Palestinian homeland and a "constant war of attrition" against Israel. By contrast, he argued, Israel could maintain its present occupation and anticipate "a lengthy period of peace, be it contractual or factual." Begin seemed as determined...